Data Analyst

Overview

The Whitecaps FC mission is To Unite and Inspire Our Communities. We are looking to fill a new role in the position of Data Analyst. Reporting to the club’s Manager, Sport Analytics and Data Scientist & Architect, the Data Analyst’s primary role is to help facilitate performance-related data collection, storage, management, analysis, and communication across the club. The DA will implement best practices in applied sports data acquisition, database management, and statistical analyses to assist in the club’s collaborative, informed decision-making process, in accordance with the WFC Performance Strategy. This position will contribute to both the daily training environment and assist with longer-term research and innovation projects at the WFC when necessary.

Responsibilities

• Assist with implementing data pipeline workflows for raw and summary data from optical tracking, football event data, wearable technology, and other available data sources as required.
• Assist with developing / implementing football performance analysis / models that can inform decisions about scouting / recruitment, match analysis / review, player development, and opposition scouting.
• Implement quality control and data best practices at all steps of the data pipeline for performance related data – data collection, data analysis, and data communication.
• Work collaboratively with physical preparation and medical staff to collect appropriate data sets when required, including force plates, global positioning systems, and strength testing.
• Work alongside coaches, staff, and players, in alignment with the WFC Performance Strategy.
• Assist with analyses for internal and publishable research and innovation projects, as needed.

Qualifications

Educational Experience

Work Experience and Skills

Essential :

Preferred

The Club

Vancouver Whitecaps FC is the longest-running professional soccer club in Canada and the United States. Since its inaugural season in 1974, the club has united generations of loyal fans in British Columbia and beyond. With academies in eight out of ten provinces, a network of partner clubs, and hundreds of camps and clinics every year, Whitecaps FC provide a foundation for Canada’s soccer future.

We are also strongly committed to providing opportunities to Canadian athletes, both male and female, with the largest soccer development structure in Canada. This includes academy programs in eight of ten provinces across the country.

In addition to building a winning team on and off the pitch, the Club places great importance in giving back to our community, harnessing the power of sport to create a stronger, more equitable & inclusive society through three key community goals : helping meet critical needs, using soccer to build life skills and creating soccer participation opportunities in Indigenous communities.

Vancouver Whitecaps FC believes that diversity and inclusion is critical to our success, and we seek to recruit, develop, and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. This includes but is not limited to people of colour, Indigenous people, persons with disabilities, and persons of any sexual orientation or gender identity. Should you require any accommodation throughout the recruitment process, please do not hesitate to contact our People & Culture department.

We thank all applicants for their interest, however, only those selected for further consideration will be contacted.

No recruiters or agencies, please.

Within these walls, you are welcomed, accepted, and respected. Here, no matter who you are or where you come from, you are home. And you’re part of the team regardless of your age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, race, marital or family status, disability, or religious belief or non-belief. All we ask is that you be ethical and inclusive in all that you do. Be respectful of all players, fans, and staff, and remember to cheer loudest for the ones wearing the blue and white. Go ‘Caps!

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