Head of Women's Professional Soccer Job Posting

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https://canadasoccer.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/20220216-CS-HeadofWomensProfessionalSoccer-EN.pdf

Deadline:  February 28, 2022

Canada Soccer is pleased to welcome the addition of a Head of Women’s Professional Soccer position with applications to be accepted through 28 February 2022.

Canada Soccer is seeking a dynamic, critical thinker for the position of Head of Women’s Professional Soccer. This is a newly created, high profile role, dedicated to launching women’s professional soccer in Canada; one that promotes equality, diversity, inclusion, and reconciliation and that can be a platform for breaking barriers and developing women leaders.

The main objective for this position is to spearhead women’s professional soccer with a strong Canadian identity and prioritize the development of promising young Canadians. In doing so, we intend to raise the level of competition and provide viable role models to inspire the country’s next generation of women footballers, coaches, referees and administrators.

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Neil Davidson article says 71 people applied.

Based on qualifications, a non-Canadian seems best suited: “extensive knowledge of women’s global soccer generally, and women’s professional club soccer specifically” plus “a university degree in business management and/or sports administration, and/or related area, plus, a minimum of five years of directly related senior management experience in the sport/business sector.”

Bontis wants position filled before March WCQ window.

And wants league by 2024! “There’s no point in re-inventing the wheel. Other women’s leagues have been launched recently, whether it’s in Mexico or England or other countries around the world. So this person’s responsibility will be to connect with those league commissioners to find out what they did right and, more importantly, to find out what they did wrong to make sure that we don’t repeat those same mistakes ourselves.”

Bontis says Canada Soccer’s approach to establishing a women’s pro soccer presence is twofold – forming a domestic league and bringing Canadian franchises to the existing U.S.-based NWSL. Bontis said he has been approached by three groups interested in a Canadian NWSL franchise with each group different in terms of existing soccer affiliation or lack thereof.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/soccer/article-lots-of-interest-in-head-of-womens-pro-soccer-job/

Some exceptions would be Gilles & Lacasse.

 

Edited March 1, 2022 by red card

[Kent]

2024 seems very optimistic. Would the NWSL be open to having more than one Canadian team in their league? If not, I wonder if any of the three groups interested in an NWSL would shift their interest to a Canadian league if they don't get in the NWSL.

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