Head of Youth Sports Curriculum and Coach Development

Wheelhouse Consulting, LLC is hiring a Head of Youth Sports Curriculum and Coach Development to build the curriculum and coach training system for a new youth multisport concept, test it with kids, and roll it out to every location.

The Wheelhouse Mission

We're building the next generation of youth enrichment brands; businesses that inspire children, support families, and empower entrepreneurs. Our platform helps early-stage franchise concepts grow from promising start-ups into nationally recognized organizations. From arts and athletics to STEM and Montessori-based education, our brands are more than businesses; they are movements.

We believe that helping a great franchisee open a youth enrichment center isn't just a business win; it's an investment in a stronger, more creative, and more confident generation.

The Opportunity

We are developing a youth multisport concept in partnership with one of the world's largest family sports entertainment brands, with over 100 million fans across digital platforms, hundreds of sold-out live events, and consumer products sold through major national retailers. Kids around the world already watch this brand, quote it, and recreate its signature content. The new concept brings that energy into a weekly class where kids try new sports, build confidence, and learn to play as a team. The concept is in the early stages. You will be the first curriculum hire, and you will own the program from the first pilot class through the rollout to new locations.

Position

• Title: Head of Youth Sports Curriculum and Coach Development
• Hiring Entity: Wheelhouse Consulting, LLC
• Reporting To: Managing Partners
• Employment Type: Full-time or contract
• Location: Remote (U.S.), with regular travel to pilot locations, starting in Houston
• Compensation and Benefits: $100,000-$125,000 DOE + bonus + benefits

The Role

You will build the athlete development model, class curriculum, challenge library, and coach training and certification system. You will work with concept leadership, operations, and our brand partner's creative team to connect real skill development with the humor, creativity, encouragement, and friendly competition the brand is known for.

Planning currently focuses on ages 4 to 9, with age-specific classes built on fundamental movement skills like throwing, catching, footwork, and balance, taught through a mix of sports. You will help validate the age groups, class format, and sport mix through testing.

What You Will Do

• Build a skill progression grounded in long-term athlete development (ADM/LTAD) and physical literacy, covering movement, balance, coordination, aiming, throwing, catching, and ball control through recognizable sports and games.
• Write age-appropriate session plans with clear objectives, plenty of repetitions, short transitions, and adaptations for different abilities and confidence levels.
• Create individual challenges, team competitions, and creative games that apply each skill and give kids several ways to succeed.
• Design rolling enrollment, trial classes, and progression levels so new members can join any week while returning members keep improving.
• Coach prototype classes yourself, observe other coaches, collect parent and kid feedback, and revise based on what happens on the floor.
• Produce coach guides, demonstration videos, equipment lists, setup diagrams, coaching cues, and simple tools for tracking progress.

As the Program Grows

• Build the coach onboarding and certification pathway, set observation and quality standards, and run a clear process for curriculum updates and field feedback.
• Work with operations to fit class design to space, staffing, equipment cost, capacity, storage, and reset time.
• Set safety, supervision, and inclusive participation standards with qualified specialists.
• Give parents short progress updates and visible milestones so they can see what their kid is learning.
• Extend proven programming into camps, parties, seasonal challenges, and at-home activities.

What You Bring

• Seven or more years building youth sports programs, including direct ownership of curriculum and coach education.
• A record of designing curriculum and coach training used across multiple locations, such as a multi-site youth sports company, franchise system, league or club network, or national governing body. You can show what you built and explain how it changed after testing.
• Hands-on experience coaching preschool and elementary-age kids in groups, including beginners and kids with different abilities.
• Working knowledge of child development, fundamental movement skills, and athlete development models such as ADM or LTAD, and how to keep competition encouraging at these ages.
• Strong writing and facilitation skills. Another coach can run your session from your materials without you in the room.
• Comfort in an early-stage business, making practical tradeoffs and spending substantial time coaching and observing classes during pilots.
• A degree in physical education, kinesiology, sport management, exercise science, recreation, or child development, or equivalent experience.

Helpful Experience

Leading sport programming or coach education for a multi-location youth sports company, franchise system, YMCA or recreation network, or national governing body; recruiting and training part-time coaches; building coach certification or digital coach education tools; work with the Aspen Institute's Project Play or similar youth sport initiatives; parent progress systems; inclusive and adaptive sport; and translating a consumer or entertainment brand into a weekly youth program.

What Success Looks Like

Kids are engaged and improving, and parents can see it. Coaches deliver the class from the materials and training provided. The program runs within agreed staffing, space, and equipment requirements and gets better with each pilot.