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Youth Development Sports Facilitator

Peace Corps
🇧🇿 Belize
On-site
2 months ago
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  • Maya
2 months ago
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Project Description

Are you a staunch believer that sports can be a powerful tool to teach essential life skills? Communities in Belize are eager to work with you!

Belize faces a critical challenge as the country’s future social and economic stability depends heavily on the opportunities provided to youth today, yet the 42 percent of the population that makes up the country’s youth still lack consistent access to life skills programs. This challenge persists due to limited human and financial resources in schools, gaps in training for educators, limited opportunities for structured extracurricular activities, and the absence of positive approaches in youth programming. National data continues to highlight that youth-related concerns—such as unemployment, violence, and school disengagement—indicate how gaps in education impact long-term outcomes.

As a Youth Development Sports Facilitator, you will collaborate with schools to integrate life skills education into sports and physical education. Your supportive role will strengthen the support offered by youth service providers, such as village councils, sports associations and/or youth development organizations. Alongside your colleagues, you will transform the outlook and self-esteem of local youth by providing the needed skills for a successful adulthood and to positively contribute to the country’s development.

Required Skills

Associate degree in any field and at least two years of full-time, post-high school work experience (from any combination of roles).
OR
Bachelor's degree in any field.
OR
High school diploma or GED and four years of full-time, post-high school work (from any combination of roles).

Living Conditions

Volunteers will live in a mix of rural and city/town work sites across Belize. Volunteers live with host families during training and the first six months after arriving at their permanent work site. After their first six months at site, Volunteers may remain with a host family or pursue independent living. Although Belize has modern western amenities, most host families live in small and basic accommodations.

Job Highlights

Develop transferrable professional skills by facilitating life skills and physical education sessions, coaching youth sports, and supporting organizational development of youth service providers.
Immerse yourself in a culturally rich country that is home to a mix of Mestizo, Creole, Maya, Garifuna, and several smaller ethnic groups.
Learn a new language and develop lifelong friendships.

Activities

Design and facilitate youth life skills programs via school clubs, sports, physical education classes, or family fun days. 
Plan and deliver youth programs outside of school that incorporate life skills and positive youth development approaches.  
Guide youth service providers on the application of organizational development skills, such as program design and evaluation, development of policies and procedures, strategic planning, governance, communications, and administration. 
Train parents and caregivers on topics including positive youth development approaches and life skills. 
Create strategies to deepen families’ and/or caregivers’ positive engagement with their children. 

You may also work on additional projects that meet the community’s interests and priorities, such as structured read-aloud activities at primary schools and after-school extracurricular clubs.

Training

As a Youth Development Sports Facilitator, you will be trained on basic coaching principles, life skills development and facilitation, lesson planning, and positive youth development approaches. Peace Corps/Belize will teach you Spanish or Kriol language—dependent on the predominant language at your work site—with a goal of language proficiency, to help you comfortably live in and connect with the community.

After 11 weeks of training, you will move to either a rural community or a town where you will collaborate with organizations focused on youth-focused organizations to assess the local needs and develop solutions based on available resources.

Couple Living Conditions

Couples who are selected for the same sector will live together but work with different local partners, which may be in the same community or in neighboring communities (not more than 30 minutes apart).
  • Country: Belize
  • Partner Organization Name: Primary schools, youth service providers, sports associations
  • Language Requirement: None
  • No Degree Required: Yes
  • Primary Sector: Youth in Development
  • Secondary Sector: Community Economic Development
  • Apply By: 15-Oct-2026
  • Know By: 01-Dec-2026
  • Start Date: 02-May-2027
  • Assignment Length (months): 24
  • Positions Available: 22
  • Accepts Couples: Yes
  • Accepting Applications?: Yes
  • Request Type: 162 Community Services
  • Posted on LinkedIn: No
  • Couple Types: Heterosexual and same-sex couples are accepted for this program.
  • Couple Training Conditions: Couples will live together during training but may separate occasionally for field-based activities.
  • Couple Sector Combinations: Each person must apply separately and qualify for a position in the same sector as their partner.

Youth Development Sports Facilitator · Peace Corps

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