Canadian SportWORKS Officer

Are you ready to make a difference through sport for newcomers to Canada, especially newcomer girls? Are you looking for an opportunity to develop your skills for a career in the Canadian sport sector?

Commonwealth Sport Canada (CSC) is searching for an aspiring sport leader to join the Sport

WORKS Sport for Newcomers Program in partnership with the YMCA of the National Capital Region.

Apply today for this exciting opportunity!

Terms of Placement:

Title:

Canadian Sport

WORKS Officer, Commonwealth Sport Canada

Reports to:

Program Manager, Sport

WORKS, Commonwealth Sport Canada

Duration:
March 2nd – June 30th, 2026

Stipend: $2000/month

Final date to receive applications:
February 12th, 2026

Background:

A key part of CSC’s Mission is to “enhance the lives of youth across the Commonwealth”. CSC’s Sport

WORKS Program has a 30-year history of enhancing the lives of Commonwealth youth, 2 million and counting. Using the success of the Sport

WORKS program model, CSC created a program focused on newcomer youth in Canada. The Sport for Newcomers program (S4N) is designed to build and enhance the capacity of Newcomer Service Support Organizations (NSSOs) in Canada leading to increased sport frequency rates and retention of Newcomer Youth.

S4N aims to build NSSO organizational capacity through internship placements of Canadian Sport

WORKS Officers who assist with the transfer of knowledge and capacity building at NSSOs for staff and volunteers, by developing resources/materials, building partnerships with local sport organizations, seeking local program funding opportunities and by assisting with the accumulation of data for monitoring and evaluation, and to inform future programming and longitudinal indicators.

Key Tasks / Projects:

The Canadian Sport

WORKS Officer makes a 4-month, full-time commitment, assisting a host NSSO in building capacity through training, advice, guidance, mentorship, coaching and support within the areas of need identified by stakeholders.

The key tasks and projects may be focused on the areas of need listed below. Please note that key tasks and projects are listed as a guide only and are contingent upon the unique needs of each host NSSO.

Partnership Development:

• Assists with partnership development between NSSOs and local sport organizations including conducting introductory sport clinics/workshops, etc.
• Formalizes local sport organization membership referrals
• Identifies and applies for local sport funding opportunities

Communication:

• Develops communication tools and communication resources (templates, guides, etc.) for use by NSSO staff

Programming:

• Contributes to the execution and cataloging of new sport program planning and delivery adaptions
• Develops new Newcomer youth focused sport program pedagogy and curriculum
• Develops a variety of new “train the trainer” resources
• Develops resources for parents of newcomer youth

Monitoring and Evaluation:

accumulation of data for monitoring and evaluation, and to inform future programming and longitudinal indicators.

Placement

Location:

YMCA of the National Capital Region (Ottawa, Ontario)

Eligibility Requirements:

• Post secondary education or a senior university student in the field of Sport Management, Sport Administration, Health, Physical Education, Kinesiology, Human Kinetics, Recreation or related experience
• Passion for sport and sport for development
• Flexibility, creativity, compassion, understanding and patience
• Cultural sensitivity awareness
• Eligible to work in Canada
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, One Drive)
• Full-time commitment for 4 months

Desired Skills /

Experience:

• Strong attention to detail
• Quality program and curriculum development skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills and an ability to interact with a wide variety of stakeholders
• Excellent administrative and report writing skills
• Ability to motivate others and to impart knowledge through 1-on-1 sessions or through group training sessions
• Ability to work unsupervised and remain self-motivated
• Working with diverse populations including age, gender, ethnicity and socioeconomic status
• Knowledge and understanding of working with newcomers, especially girls, and their barriers
• Lived newcomer…