Technical Director

West Niagara Soccer Club (WNSC) is a newly-formed amateur soccer club in Ontario’s Golden Horseshoe, created from a recent merger of Grimsby Town Youth Soccer Club and Lincoln Soccer Club. With heightened capability and fueled by a player registration base of over 2,000 youth and adult players, WNSC aims to dominate the soccerscape in the West Niagara region from Hamilton through St Catharines for years to come.

To support our ambition, WNSC is seeking a dynamic, free-thinking and results-driven coach leader to spearhead our player and coach development activities into the future in the position of Technical Director.

If this is you, you’ll have the opportunity to design, shape and implement a next-gen’ technical program that will cement WNSC as a leading developer of soccer talent in Ontario and a provider of fun, compelling soccer experiences for all involved. We’ll be looking for a club-wide technical plan from you that binds your technical philosophy with your player development approach and coaching development strategy. We’ll ask you to lead and develop our coaching crew, many of whom are volunteers and lacking advanced qualifications, but have a passion for the gama and the players they coach that we will look to you to unlock. And we’ll look for you to inspire our players and the parents of our youth players around a compelling technical vision to support you in your player development plans, and the Club at large.

We are seeking dynamic and energetic technical leadership, who understands both male and female soccer, and loves mixing it with people who don’t know the game, as well as coaches who do. A competitive compensation package is on offer, together with workplace flexibility and the chance to make a genuine difference in the sport of soccer in a growing, dynamic 905 market!

Position Details

As Technical Director, you will report to the Club’s Board of Directors and be supported by an Operations Manager and other support staff and volunteers. Your chief responsibilities will be to:

Technical Leadership (40%)

• Establish a club-wide Technical (Development) Plan, in line with Canada Soccer National Youth Club requirements.
• Attend at all meetings of the WNSC Board of Director as requested. Reporting to the Board (in tandem with the Club Operations Manager) in relation to technical operations of the Club.
• Provide advice to the Board of Directors in relation to all strategic technical matters.
• Provide input into the compilation of the Club’s annual budget, especially from a technical revenue and expenditure standpoint.
• Implement all relevant Club policies related to the behavior and actions of all Club coaches, and their players and parents, particularly in relation to Code of Conduct and Safe Sport protocols.
• Serve as the spokesperson for WNSC for all matters in relation to player and coach development at the Club, playing a leadership role in active communication of player and coach development philosophy to the Club’s key stakeholders, in particular the parents of registered youth players.
• Lead the Club’s coaching faculty in developing a strong coaching team that operates in a coordinated way, with strong buy-in to the Club’s vision, mission and values.
• Manage organizational partnerships and/or supplier agreements in relation to player development (notably sport science / sport medicine providers)
• Comply with all WNSC sponsorship contractual obligations and ensure/direct compliance from all team staff and players.

Player Development (20%)

• Oversee development and execution of all player development programs, including guest clinics and camp programs.
• Design and implementation of annual Club-wide training curriculum across all youth age groups
• Establish effective systems of player talent identification to properly scout the Club’s house League and other recreational programs to ensure players training environments are properly aligned to their potential and desired levels of play.
• Oversee the performance of the Club’s travel teams, including approval of player selection, tournament registrations, and associated training curriculum.
• Serve as direct liaison with Niagara Soccer Association and Ontario Soccer regarding advanced player development matters, including player transition to higher soccer opportunities.

Coach Development (40%)

• Oversee the development of all WNSC coaches, including paid coaches and volunteers.
• Work with WNSC travel team coaches on a one-to-one basis, to instruct, mentor, and improve their coach abilities.
• Create and facilitate internal WNSC-specific coach education programs for all WNSC coaches, in particular volunteer House League coaches.
• Approve attendance of WNSC coaches on coaching courses, or attendance at conferences or other professional development opportunities.
• Establish and lead an annual coach induction program, outlining the Club’s Technical (Development) Plan, appropriate policies and coaching / game management procedures and protocols.
• Be available to WNSC coaches as a coaching resource and assist in sourcing coach replacement, in the event a coach is unable to attend a scheduled training session or game.
• Provide annual evaluations of all travel team head coaches, in line with their professional development plan.

What You Bring

We know we can’t have everything! But what does our ideal candidate look like? Here’s our wish list:

• Minimum CSA National B Diploma
• CSA Children’s Diploma (or willing to work towards acquiring it)
• Ontario Soccer Technical Directors Diploma is preferred
• 5-10 years working coaching in North American youth soccer systems of +1000 players
• Experience working with teams of coaches, particularly volunteer coaches
• Tacit knowledge of the Ontario soccer system and Ontario Soccer’s player development rules, policies and programs
• Comfort working with parents of young children, many of whom are unfamiliar with the technicalities of the sport of soccer
• Technical understanding of, and enthusiasm for, the participation and development of females through the sport of soccer, at all levels
• Experience working with a volunteer Board of Directors and/or volunteer committees and comfort reporting to them in an accurate and timely manner
• Familiarity with Ontario municipal government, as it pertains to sport and recreation facilities and infrastructure

Interested?

If this is you and you like what you’ve read, we want to hear from you! Get your resume together and send it to Paul Varian at Capitis Consulting, [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]). Applications close at close-of-business EST on Sunday 22 nd November 2026. We thank all candidates for applying, but only those being pursued will be contacted.