EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY: Sport Program Coordinator
Requirements:
- Experience organizing sports programming for 9 -17 year olds
- Education or training in coaching, teaching or recreational programming
- Experience in managing volunteers
- Experience in coaching sports and providing sports programs
- Be able to provide clear direction and feed back to volunteers, and youth participants
- Have an in depth understanding of the barriers that inner city communities face when accessing sports
- Be able to communicate both verbally and in writing
- Enjoy team work and be willing to assist other youth program leaders
- Be able to provide a current criminal record check and child registry check
- Be able to work afternoons/evenings and some weekends
- Drivers Licence
- Experience in report and proposal writing
Assets:
- Current First aid, CPR training
- Creativity and ambition
- Experience working in the inner city community
- Experience working with organizations such as WMBA and WYSA
- Class 4 Drivers Licence
Duties Include:
- Create, organize, develop and implement Sport Programming
- Build relationships with partners, organizations and other youth serving organizations in order to provide quality programming to youth
- Serve as support to the Youth Agencies Alliance Sport and Recreation Coordinator
- Serve as convener for the SNA sports club MERC in the WMBA, WYSA etc.
- Recruit, train and manage volunteer coaches, drivers and club managers
- Write funding proposals, funding reports, and programming result reports
- Track, monitor and evaluate programs, and report evaluation results
- Recruit players for all sports programming
- Manage the sports program budget
- Serve as support for all the participants in the sports programming
- Manage, maintain and buy equipment for the program
- Arrange transportation for kids to attend practices and games
- Secure funding for the program to continue the following year
- Recruit, train, support and mentor coaches, volunteers and practicum students
- Work towards growth of inner city sports through sustainable means
- Provide support and work closely with all of the after school programs at the Spence Neighbourhood Association
Deadline for Applications: 4:00 pm Monday February 4th, 2013
Resume with cover letter should be submitted to:
Spence Neighbourhood Association
Attn: Jamil Mahmood
615 Ellice Ave.
Winnipeg, MB R3G 0A4
Fax: 204-775-1802
e-mail: jamil@spenceneighbourhood.org