Regional Director of Coaching

Legacy Global Sports is the fastest growing elite youth sports event and management company in the world with a full suite of tours, tournaments, events and services across Soccer (Global Premier Soccer, GPS), Lacrosse (T3), and Hockey (Selects). The organization engages with over 1,000,000 elite youth athletes and their families at over 350 exclusive youth sports events, tournaments and tours across North America and Europe each year.

The world-class marquee events and brand partnerships enhance brand equity that gives us the leverage to dominate elite youth sports across all pillars of the LEGACY brand – from events and academies to Housing (PSE) & Travel, Apparel, Education and Representation. The key to the organization’s success is engaged passion – understanding how and why young people engage in sports – creating world-class sporting experiences to impact the lives of all elite youth athletes and their families, developing leaders in sports and beyond while creating memories that last a lifetime.

We are looking for a hands-on Regional Director of Coaching who will uphold our core values while delivering exceptional Soccer leadership. As the GPS DOC, you will be responsible for the day to day running of your specific region. This will include ensuring the professional delivery of all elements of the GPS soccer provision, in conjunction with the GPS MA DOC.

Essential Job Duties & Responsibilities

• Staffing – responsible for placement of all staff to ensure efficiency in staffing plan.
• Recruitment and retention of coaching staff to provide consistency and quality of delivery
• Implement coach evaluation process, to ensure that all coaches receive ongoing & consistent performance based feedback that is in line with the GPS coaching/style of play. Engage fully with PT staff as well as FT staff.
• Ensure that staff have a coaching growth plan and provide support to the delivery & content of the staff enrichment program
• Recruitment of new players for the premier program; via leads that are generated via the marketing dept & identifying players at competing clubs through scouting. Create a recruitment list per age group
• Ensure that feedback is provided on an ongoing basis & in line with the competitive calendar, both at the end of the spring & fall seasons. This feedback should be designed to retain players & grow the club player numbers
• Ensure through clear, consistent & professional communication that all parents are clear in their understanding of the role parents play in the development of their children. The opportunities available & the expectations placed on parents with regards to practice & game day.
• Build new partnerships with town programs, parks and recreation departments and any other vendor that offers soccer programming
• Drive the marketing, recruitment & registration of participants in the Camps, vacation & Grassroots Programs

Qualifications

• Coaching experience & qualifications required