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Reporting to: 1st and 2nd Vice President
Classification: Summer Student Full-Time (35-40 Hours)
Salary Range: $21.00 / hour
When: April 28, 2025 – August 29, 2025

Are you looking to use your baseball skills in a productive way? Have you got a knack for planning and organizing activities including practice plans, schedules, skills improvement? Looking to learn some administrative tasks?

Woodstock Minor Baseball is a rapidly growing sports organization in the City of Woodstock. Our organization is looking for a summer student to:

• Provide on-field oversight to our House League Baseball program
• Assist with diamond booking
• Communicate with City of Woodstock staff
• Support equipment and uniform management
• Promote WMBA through various Social Media platforms
• Assist with delivery of tournaments including 13U National Championship

Responsibilities:

• Design a season long development schedule ensuring that each week has a strong theme
• Prepare activities to help you get to know your players
• Documenting and updating manuals, procedures, policies, forms, etc.
• Prepare tools to set yourself up for success (i.e., pro- active tools for preventing challenging behaviours and celebrating player successes, tactics for developing a positive culture and player development activities)
• Connect with families and coaches to develop rapport and adjust programming to best suit player needs
• Model sportsmanship with players, families and coaches
• Direct supervision of player practices, including participant experience, parent participation and equipment maintenance
• Training, scheduling, monitoring, and program effectiveness
• Participate in weekly debriefs to identify successes and areas for program development and to share insights and suggestions to help WMBA improve the quality of the program
• Working with the tournament convenor, recruiting local community support for the 3 tournaments planned for Woodstock in 2025 including the 13U National Championship tournament
• Field scheduling and related duties including pre-booking and cancellations for tournaments.
• Umpire scheduling and related duties including pre-booking and dealing with cancellations
• Various Social Media platform communications
• Standard administrative duties during key operational hours such as customer service, answering the telephone, accepting payments, receiving and distributing correspondence.
• Providing hands-on support at the tournaments as necessary.
• Scheduling and booking of the WMBA indoor facility for various activities such as player and coaches’ clinics
• Attend and participate in monthly board meetings
• Administrative duties as requested

Essential Qualifications:

• Completion or progress towards a University Degree and/or College Diploma, preferably in a discipline related to Children and Youth, Recreation, Sport and/or Community Programming, Community Development or Teaching
• Must be able to work in all weather conditions
• Must be physically able to perform activities common to the game of baseball
• Must have or be willing to obtain Standard First Aid and CPR-C Certification
• Must have a Class G2 Ontario Driver’s License in good standing and access to a reliable vehicle
• Love and appreciation of sport
• Qualified to work in Ontario
• Satisfactory Police Check for Vulnerable Sector

Preferred:

• Training in the area of inclusion
• Experience facilitating recreational programming for children
• Experience facilitating workshops for youth and adults
• Experience in program planning, implementation and evaluation of outcome-based programs
• Experience coaching – baseball preferred
• Coaching certification (NCCP)

Personal Attributes:

• Excellent communication abilities.
• Strong writing skills, excellent command of the English language
• Highly organized with the ability to multi-task.
• Strong attention to detail and problem-solving skills
• Able to navigate internet and use email.
• Strong planning and coordination skills.
• Highly motivated and committed to program success
• Good team work ethic, and also capable of working independently
• Decision making skills
• Interested in being part of community development.
• Excellent interpersonal skills

Working Conditions:

• Scheduled 35-40-hour work week, which will include weekends and alternate shift hours.
• Will be required to work in adverse weather conditions.
• May be required to work overtime.

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Thank you for your interest in working with Woodstock Minor Baseball. Only applicants selected for an interview will be contacted.

Woodstock Minor Baseball is committed to diversity and inclusivity in employment and welcomes applications from qualified individuals of diverse backgrounds. We embrace equality, diversity, justice, inclusion and belonging and we’re committed to building a team that represents many backgrounds, perspectives and skills, representative of the communities we serve. The more inclusive we are, the better our work and workplace will be. We are committed to creating a workplace where people experience meaningful work, a sense of hope and optimism, an environment of trust, and inspired results. If this sounds like an environment in which you would like to work, apply here today! We strongly encourage applications from all qualified individuals, especially those who can provide different perspectives and contribute to a further diversification of ideas.