Overview
The Little Lions Club Coaching Manager is a full-time, salaried role focused on running great soccer programs in our Virginia Beach and Chesapeake partner schools. This is a hands-on, in-the-field position: you will be coaching, training other coaches, and managing a team of coaches across the region while serving as the primary point of contact for our partner preschools day-to-day. The right candidate is someone who genuinely enjoys working with young children, can lead a team effectively, and can perform every job they are asking others to perform. As a coach, you are responsible for knowing the curriculum, class format, and fundamentals of soccer as applicable to 2–10-year-old players. As a leader, soft skills — maintaining positive lines of communication with partner school points of contact (POCs), addressing issues with staff in the field constructively and in line with our mission, and protecting the quality of our program at scale — are essential to success.
Core Company Values
Our core values at the Little Lions Club are: integrity, which is doing what we say we’re going to do when we say we’re going to do it; honesty, which is the ability to tell the truth even in difficult situations or when mistakes were made; and sportsmanship, which applies both on the field and off, in every aspect of life. A good sport is not only someone who wins and loses well, but someone who knows how to play as part of a team, who can be relied upon and trusted, and who embodies the principles in which they believe. Our ideal Coaching Manager practices integrity, honesty, and is a good sport.
Core Responsibilities
Your role centers on three things: coaching well, developing the coaches around you, and keeping our partner schools happy. The day-to-day breaks down as follows:
- Coaching
- You will run a regular coaching schedule of your own at a batch of partner schools in the Virginia Beach / Chesapeake region. Coach with enthusiasm and your own flare. In the Little Lions Club, the kids come first, the soccer second — engaging with players on a personal level comes before any serious instruction.
- Training Coaches
- Once new coaches are hired by corporate, you take ownership of getting them ready for the field. This means walking them through our curriculum and class format, shadowing them at sessions, giving direct feedback, and ultimately deciding when they are ready to run schools of their own. You set the bar for what a Little Lions coach looks like in this region.
- Managing Coaches
- You will hold weekly coaching calls with each coach on your team — structured check-ins to review how their schools are going, work through any issues, and keep everyone aligned on standards. We are not asking you to micromanage. We are asking you to keep a steady pulse on your team: drop in to shadow sessions periodically, be available when coaches need you, and catch problems early before they reach the school or parent level.
- School Relationship Management
- You are the day-of point of contact for our existing partner preschools in the region. When a school director has a question, a scheduling conflict, a complaint, or a logistical issue, you handle it. This includes responding to school admin communications, coordinating any in-the-moment changes (weather calls, coach swaps, equipment needs), and keeping each school confident that Little Lions has someone real, local, and responsive on the other end of the line. You will be set up with the communication and CRM tools (Hubspot) needed to do this well, along with your own Little Lions email and business cards.
- Communication with Company Leadership
- Keep us informed. We want a steady flow of information about how the region is performing, what is working, what is not, and any developing issues with schools, coaches, or parents. In an ideal hierarchy, your coaches keep you updated, you keep us updated, and with that information we can all make well-informed decisions for the health and longevity of the Little Lions Club.
Expectations
We understand that, over time, expectations shift and mold to the needs of those involved in an enterprise. With that flexibility in mind, here are some basic, core expectations of your position:
- Full availability M–F, 35–40 hours per week, generally within 9–5pm. Some weeks will run longer, others shorter. We do not ask anyone in our company to do “busy work” — if there is work to be done, it is your responsibility to make sure it gets done. If there is not, you can relax and plan ahead.
- We expect you to not work for any competing soccer programs upon starting, even during training. Because of the intertwined nature of the soccer world, any soccer program is a competing soccer program. You will be asked to sign a Non-Compete Agreement as a condition of employment.
- You do not share internal company information (information not available to the public via our social media, email newsletters, or website) with anyone outside of the organization. You will be asked to sign a Non-Disclosure Agreement as a condition of employment.
Conditions of Employment
- Experience coaching or playing team / competitive sports
- Minimum of one year of work experience — customer service, sales, or education experience preferred
- Must be 18 years of age or older at the time of hiring
- Available M–F, 9–5pm, with flexibility for occasional work outside these hours
- Passing a criminal background check
- Negative TB screening
- Negative drug test
Compensation
- Salary starting at $36,000 / year ($3,000 / month), paid in two monthly paychecks, beginning on your first day in the role.
Pay: $36,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Employee discount
- Flexible schedule
- Paid time off
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Virginia Beach, VA
