Youth Soccer and fitness Coach

Job Description

Before moving through this job posting and applying, please read this short skills requirement section, as we will not be accepting any applications outside of these mandatory requirements-

1. Advanced knowledge of soccer, strategy, drills, techniques, and extensive experience teacher and coordinating classes (NOT JUST PLAYING).
2. A history and knowledge of fitness with the ability to create workout/fitness plans for children ranging from 7-14 (equipment provided). certified trainer preferred.
3. A strong knowledge of the skills, drills, and techniques of multiple sports, SPECIFICALLY SOCCER, as well as the ability to perform within these sports.
4. EXPERIENCE working with children, as well as an upbeat, fun, and engaging personality that can both entertain students BUT ALSO manage a classroom with guidelines and rules.
5. Strong inter-personal and communication skills, with the availability to respond to all text inquiries within 1 hour, even if just to say unavailable. Our clients require prompt responses, and therefore we will only consider those who are responsible with their responses.
6. Afternoon availability. As our students are mostly children, they require after-school hours (3-6PM M-F). Please do not apply if you have limited afternoon availability.
7. Close to and able to work within the areas of Irvine/Newport Beach/CDM, Tustin, Aliso Viejo. While we do not expect our instructors to travel far, and we do cluster clients and classes, we also expect that out instructors travel up to 20-30 minutes to reach these clusters, though we try to list drive time as much as possible.

Again, keep in mind this is a CHILDREN’s sports and fitness position. Most important is that you are able to connect with students, followed closely by your knowledge of sports and fitness.

About Us

Hello! We are a youth fitness company based out of Irvine in Orange County. Our mission is to help children develop healthy active lifestyles, through quality fitness instruction.

With physical education in schools deteriorating, and organized sports focussing more strongly on social interaction, our mission is to help children get the exercise they need to grow and be healthy. Our goal is to break all of the negative stigmas associated with exercise, and show kids all of the fun ways to incorporate fitness into their daily lives. We hop to help young athletes prevent injuries, and help create a healthier generation for tomorrow.

We offer many different services including private fitness instruction (personal training), group fitness classes, private yoga classes, group yoga classes, social integration through fitness, toddler movement classes, dance fitness, advanced sport instruction (tennis, soccer, football, boxing, baseball, etc.), and special needs fitness instruction. We also run “field days” for local schools and organizations, birthday parties, summer camps, and several contract classes with Orange County recreation departments.

We are currently looking to bring a new sports coach onto our team. We are preferably looking for applicants who have experience teaching fitness classes, however experience in training in other sports or yoga is greatly appreciated. The majority of the hours will be working with private clients (small groups or 1:1), however will also have larger group classes available. We will also have more openings available over the summer for summer camp leaders, if more hours are desired.

Though beginning classes, we do teach a number of sports/fitness classes, and are ideally looking for coaches that experience with fitness, children, and tennis, boxing , and/or other sports.

Since we are a youth based fitness company, it is vital that applicants have good classroom management skills, and experience working with children.

preferred applicants will have relevant certifications-Personal training certification (NASM or ACE) as well, would be ideal.

It is mandatory that applicants have experience teaching group fitness classes (boot camp style or HIIT preferred) as well as experience working with children.

A large portion of our company is devoted to special needs training (functional movement, social integration, heavy work, etc.) so experience working with special needs students is a a huge bonus.

Each new coach/instructor will get a set of equipment as well as basic lesson plans and our exercise library, however we do expect that our coaches are able to plan, adjust, and create new lesson plans for each of their clients, according to their specific needs.

Most importantly, we expect all of our coaches to be effective communicators. Clients calling in require quick responses, and we therefore expect our coaches to respond quickly as well. During business hours (Mon-Fri 9am-5pm), we expect our coaches to respond within 1 hour to text messages and emails, so that we may set classes up quickly. Coaches who continue to miss our 1 hour window will be let go.

The majority of classes will take place in clients’ homes or local parks, so minimal travel will be required. We expect all coaches to be able to take clients in the cities of Newport Beach, Irvine, Costa Mesa, Huntington Beach, CDM, and close surrounding areas.

Coaches represent the business in each clients home, so we expect coaches to act professionally, wear coaches shirts, and always address clients respectfully.

All of our coaches are independent contractors, and therefore have the ability to make their own hours and are free to work in multiple different companies/positions.

Coaches will make between $35-$40 per hour for private lessons, and between $40-60 per hour for our classes.