Performance Coach
The best coaches are not defined by how they look. They are defined by how much they know, how deeply they care, and how well they transfer both to the person in front of them.
We are not looking for a certain physique. We are looking for a certain standard of knowledge, preparation, and genuine investment in the people you work with. The coach who studies obsessively, communicates with precision, and holds every client to the same professional expectation they hold themselves. That is what matters here.
What we will not accept is the gap. The coach who is meticulous about their own development but casual about a client's. Who knows the right answer and delivers a comfortable one instead. Who shows up but leaves the accountability at the door.
If you care about this work as much outside the session as in it, and you have the knowledge and the people skills to back that up, you will fit here.
What We're Looking For
- Recognized personal training certification (CSEP-CPT, NSCA-CSCS, or equivalent)
- Minimum two years coaching experience in a performance or clinical setting
- Demonstrable knowledge of movement assessment and periodization
- A coaching philosophy you can articulate without hesitation
- Comfort delivering hard truths with care and conviction
- Current First Aid and CPR certification
Your 500
No cover letter. We've read enough of those.
Instead, we want exactly 500 words that answer four things. Not separately. Woven together, the way real thought actually works.
What you believe about people that most practitioners get wrong.
Not a theory. A conviction. Something you've arrived at through experience, failure, or obsession. Something you would defend in a room full of people who disagree. Bonus points if it's something you had to unlearn about yourself first.
The moment you almost walked away.
From this career, this path, this belief that what you do actually matters. What happened. What it felt like. And what made you stay, or come back.
What you'd dismantle about your industry, and what you would build instead.
One thing. The real one. And more importantly, what replaces it.
The gap between the standard you hold yourself to and the standard you hold your clients to.
Be honest. Most people have one. Tell us what it is, how you found it, and what you did about it. If you say there's no gap, tell us why we should believe you.
Write it however it comes naturally. Structure doesn't matter. Honesty does. We care about whether the person writing this is the same person who shows up to work.
Attach your CV and send both to careers@vanguardperformance.ca.
The Only Rule
Exactly 500 words. Not 498. Not 503. Precision is the first test.