Soccer Volunteering

The Parkdale Soccer Program is completely volunteer-operated, and more volunteers are always welcome and deeply needed!

If you can fill any of the roles below, you will be doing the program and your kids a great service. Without volunteers, this program cannot run!

Please ensure you mention your desire to volunteer on our online registration form.

Available opportunities

Co-Coaches

2 positions per team

Each team has 2 co-coaches who share coaching duties with another co-coach/partner, ensuring that if one cannot make a certain session, the other is there to cover. Duties include attending the coaches meeting, attending the coaching clinic (if needed) and coaching the team during the season. You and your co-coach can alternate games and practices as long as one of you makes each session.
Coaches are needed for all teams at all age levels. For younger age levels, coaches don’t need much (if any) soccer skills themselves, just the ability to work with the kids and have fun.

Time commitment: 3 – 4 hrs/week
(Coaching 2 nights per week for U4/U6, and then for U8 and up, also 1-1.5 hrs/game & practice time per week. Coaches meeting is about an hour one time, and the coaching clinic is about 2 hours if you do not have coaching experience)

Team Manager

1 position per team
April – June

Each team needs a manager who helps the coaches organizes some of the details for the season.
Your job will be to create a “snack schedule” to outline which player’s responsibility it is to bring snacks to each session. You’ll also help communicate to the team players and parents (schedules, cancellations due to weather, reminder of photo days, distributing receipts, etc.) and assist the coaches with things that need to be done off the field. Typically a team manager will communicate at most once per week with their team, often less.

Time commitment: Less than 1 hour per week during season; attending coaching night (approx. 60 minutes one time)

Equipment Coordinator

3 positions
[required only before & after soccer season]

Assist the soccer commissioner with organizing the equipment into bags for each team with uniforms, balls and needed equipment; assembling coaching binders for each team; attending coaches night to distribute equipment, and to help collect equipment at end of season.

Time commitment: 1-2 nights for equipment night in January and before soccer season starts plus approximately 1-2 hours at the end of the season to ensure soccer equipment and bags are returned and put back into inventory.

Field Manager

1 position available
April – June

Organize the field evening, where the fields will be marked for the beginning of the year. This consists of replacing the plastic ground markers and laying the first chalk lines.
The field lines need to be chalked once per week, and you will organize the Field Helpers who will assist in chalking the fields each week. Your role is to ensure fields get chalked as required throughout the season.

Time commitment: Approximately 2 hours per week throughout the season

Field Assistant (chalking)

4 positions
April – June

You will chalk the fields on a rotating basis.

Time commitment: Approximately 2 hours per week when it’s your turn (number of turns required based on total number of volunteers we get - our target is for each volunteer to assist 2-3 times during the season)

Photography Coordinator

1 position available
Midseason

We will be hiring a professional photographer to take team & individual photos. As the photograph organizer, you will make arrangements with a professional photographer to get the photos done.
This consists of arranging dates & times for photo sessions and helping to herd teams on the day that photos are taken.

Time commitment: 5-6 hours total

Awards Coordinator

1 position available
Mid to late season

As the awards manager, you will make arrangements to purchase medals (or similar) for all players. (package them and distribute.)

5 – 6 hours total