Canadian Sport Institute Alberta
The Canadian Sport Institute Alberta’s (CSIAB) mission is to provide a world- leading, multisport, daily training environment for podium athletes and coaches, through expert leadership, services and programs. Within its broader mandate, the CSIAB provides a variety of programs and services, including physiological testing, monitoring and program design.
Strength & Conditioning Internship
The Internship is an intensive experience that runs between May – September 2026, that will allow you to gain valuable skills and knowledge to lay a foundation for a future career as a strength and conditioning coach. You will learn the applied science of strength and power training and how to integrate components of S&C coaching such as collaborating with other professional disciplines, understanding sport demands, athlete evaluation and programming into a comprehensive training philosophy. Throughout your internship, you will work with the lead strength coach of a national team to assist in daily tasks, complete specific learning outcomes while gaining exposure to our full team of strength coaches, with a variety of processes, sports and athlete abilities.
Who?
The Internship is for you if you are:
- An aspiring strength and conditioning coach in development and high-performance sport.
- Highly motivated and self-driven with the ambition and work ethic to become an excellent, well rounded strength coach.
- An undergraduate or soon to be undergraduate from a Kinesiology or Sport Science related degree, with minimum 2 years coaching experience.
- CSCS, CPT (or equivalent) certified.
- Passionate about fostering positive team cultures and achieving peak performance through disciplined strength and conditioning.
- Open minded and looking to learn from a wide range of disciplines, coaching styles and training philosophies
The S&C Intern will become a vital member of the CSIAB S&C team and will participate in all in-house professional development opportunities. Additionally, the intern will help the S&C team run a high-performance training facility and develop skills in facility maintenance, strength and power field tests and more advanced strength and power laboratory assessments. It is an opportunity to progress your career with outstanding work experience.
Core competencies:
- Learning capability
- Communication skills
- Team-oriented
- Interpersonal skills
- Analytical thinking
- Results orientation
- Passion for coaching
- Ready to learn
- Adaptable and able to use initiative
Responsibilities:
- Attends all CSIAB professional development sessions
- Attends training sessions and assists with session delivery as directed by the lead
S&C coach - Assists with facility maintenance and weight room floor supervision
- Set up for training and testing sessions
- Data analysis and logging of athlete monitoring data
- Refine skills of program delivery from warm up to cool down
- Develop and refine program design for a broad range of athlete populations
- Ensure proper weight room etiquette
- Assist in data collection using strength & power testing equipment
Qualifications:
- Minimum undergraduate university degree in kinesiology or related field
- Current first aid and CPR
- Knowledge of weight room equipment
- Coaching experience (minimum 2 years)
- CSCS, CEP or CPT certification or equivalent with personal liability insurance
- Ability to work and communicate in a fast-paced, team environment with a high degree of independence and initiative
- Exceptional team building skills and the capacity to adjust with dynamic nature of high-performance sport environment.
Employment status: Full time, some evenings and weekends will be required
Stipend: TBD
Application: PLEASE USE THIS FORM
Closing date: February 27th, 2026