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Location:202 S. Western Ave,Carpentersville, IL 60110
Youth Soccer/Child Development Coach
Consistent Schedule • Paid Training • Growth Opportunities
Do you enjoy working with children? Love teaching, storytelling, and helping kids grow?
Join the Lil’ Kickers & Skills Institute Soccer team and make a meaningful impact every week.
An LK Soccer Coach leads children ages 18 months to 10 years old through a 50-minute structured class focused on development, confidence, and fun. Coaches play a key role in creating a safe, positive, and consistent experience for children and families.
This role is ideal for committed high school students, college students, recent graduates, and adults looking for reliable part-time work in a supportive, team-driven environment. Soccer experience is helpful, but not required — full training is provided.
About Our Programs
Our culture is built around positivity, inclusion, and growth — for kids and coaches alike. Each year, our team inspires 15,000+ children across our communities.
What You’ll Do
Schedule & Commitment
Training & Growth
Pay & Perks
Who Thrives in This Role
Backgrounds that often do well include:
No prior coaching experience is required.
Join Our Team
If you’re looking for a part-time role where consistency, growth, and impact matter, we’d love to hear from you.
Compensation: $15.00 - $18.00 per hour
Lil’ Kickers is a nationwide soccer program rooted in child development theory for kids ages 18 months to 10 years old. Weekly classes are packed with fun and taught by dynamic coaches with a passion for kids. We focus on helping children build strong physical, intellectual and emotional skills using the game of soccer. With more than 100 locations across the U.S. and Canada, Lil’ Kickers has been a source of fun and individual growth for more than 1,000,000 participants over the past 20 years.
Using world-renowned child development theories, our curriculum is child-centered, creative, and comprehensive. By rewarding the children’s effort and not just the outcome, we drive the will to try again and again and again. We believe an amazing on-field experience will keep children engaged and coming back for more.
To inspire. We believe childhood is a magical time full of possibilities. We believe in approaching everything from a developmental perspective. We believe learning should be fun. We believe in creating space for all children whether they are on the road to all-star soccer or simply just want to play.
Every Coach within Lil' Kickers has gone through rigorous training to make sure each child is getting the best instruction possible that is both age-appropriate and developmentally minded.

Lil’ Kickers is a nationwide child development program that teaches soccer fundamentals to kids ages 18 months to 12 years. With more than 100 youth soccer franchise locations across the U.S., we invite you to join the team that has inspired more than 1,000,000 Lil’ Kickers participants over the past 20 years. For many of our franchisees, the Lil’ Kickers program has become one of their higher revenue-generating programs, bringing youth and their families into the facility year-round during off-peak hours.
The Benefits of Lil’ Kickers:
- Attract a new, younger demographic to your facility during off-peak weekday
hours.
- You’ll create lifelong customers by providing a path to other programs and
building brand loyalty from an early age.
- Year-round programming keeps customers coming back.
- We provide supplemental programming options like camps, birthday parties,
small-sided leagues and enrichment programming to keep your facility busy
even when school is out.
- Our child development-focused curriculum differentiates us from traditional
soccer programs, teaching life skills and helping children hit developmental
milestones, in addition to soccer fundamentals.
- You’ll have a dedicated support rep during launch and ongoing who will take a
personalized approach and guide you on how to grow your business.
- We provide you with unparalleled training, marketing, tools and constant
innovation.
- We have options for those that own a facility and those who do not.
- Through our seamless implementation process, we’ll get you up and running in
as few as 8 weeks!
Want to learn more about this franchise opportunity? Fill out the form at www.lilkickers.com/lil-kickers-franchising/ or give us a call at 877-650-0007. We’ll talk to you about the opportunity in your market and see if Lil’ Kickers is a good franchising fit.