Mentorship Program

Coach Mentorship

A high impact mentorship for early career coaches ready to level up your coaching journey

Build real coaching skills, get hands on high performance experience, and fast track your development as a coach.

Football Alberta’s Coaching Mentorship Program is designed for new and emerging coaches who are seeking hands on experience within a high performance coaching environment.

Our program provides selected mentees with the opportunity to work alongside one of our provincial coaching staff for the full duration of selection camps.

Participants will receive required provincial NCCP training, one-on-one mentorship with high-performance team coaches, a certificate of completion from Football Alberta, and ongoing support toward future coaching opportunities.

Key Benefits to you

included NCCP courses
networking with elite coaches
certificate of completion from Football Alberta to enhance your coach resume
pathway into higher-level coaching opportunities
top tier mentorship benefits
hands on coaching experience

Program commitment

complete required NCCP virtual/online courses (included in program)
short supplemental learning modules to accelerating your learning
attend virtual team meetings leading to selection camps (2-8 hour committment)
two selection camp weekends (Friday evening to Sunday afternoon)
mini camp prior to teams departure (not every team has a mini camp)

Applicant requirements

18 or older
less than 5 years of coaching experience
able to commit to a provincial team for the duration of selection camps (camps, meetings, etc)
willing to complete all learning requirements
open minded and interested in growing as a coach

Timeline

Applications open until Friday, January 30
Successful applicants notified week of February 9-13
Mandatory virtual onboarding meeting week of February 17-20
NCCP training dates TBD
Team meetings late March-early April
Camps in April, May, June, July depending on the team
Team choices
- U16 Female Team Alberta
- U18 Female Team Alberta
- Women's 18+ Team Alberta
- U18 Boy Team Alberta
- U17 Boy Team Alberta
- U16 Boy Team Alberta
- Indigenous Team Alberta