DEPARTMENT Business Operations

REPORTS TO President, Dominion Sports and Technology Inc.

LOCATION Vale Health and Wellness Centre, Port Colborne, Ontario

TERM September 2026 to May 2027

HOURS 12 to 15 hours per week, weighted to game nights and event weekends

PROGRAM FIT Event Management, Sport Management, Sport Administration, Hospitality and Tourism

Management

T H E R O L E

Every home game is a live event with a fixed start time and no second take. This placement supports the run of show from doors opening to the building emptying, and assists with the club's theme nights and the Sailors Charity Golf

Classic in June 2027.

W H A T Y O U W I L L D O

- Help build and maintain the game-night run of show: doors, anthem, intermission activations, promotions and the full timing sheet
- Support coordination of volunteers and game-night staff assignments
- Assist with theme night execution including opening night, seniors night, minor hockey night and alumni night
- Support the Sailors Charity Golf Classic: registration, sponsor signage, hole activations and day-of logistics
- Liaise with Vale Health and Wellness Centre facility staff on setup, teardown and room bookings
- Confirm that every contracted sponsor element scheduled for an event is actually executed
- Track event budgets against actuals
- Contribute to the written post-event debrief and help carry the fixes into the next event

W H A T Y O U W I L L L E A R N
- Produce a repeatable run of show and execute it under live time pressure
- Coordinate volunteers, vendors and facility staff toward a fixed start time
- Manage an event budget and reconcile it afterward
- Apply crowd, risk and safety planning in a public venue




- Turn a post-event debrief into documented operational improvement

W H A T W E A R E L O O K I N G F O R
- Calm under time pressure and comfortable making a call when the schedule slips
- Strong written organization. Checklists and timing sheets are the core work product
- Available Friday and Saturday evenings through the season
- Willing to be first in and last out on event days
- Reliable transportation to Port Colborne

PLACEMENT TERMS COMMON TO ALL SAILORS POSITIONS A B O U T T H E C L U B The Port Colborne Sailors Hockey Club is a junior hockey organization playing out of the Vale Health and Wellness Centre in Port Colborne, Ontario. The club is an operating subsidiary of Dominion Sports and Technology Inc., which also owns the AI Hockey Tech Accelerator, a technology subsidiary building advanced analytics focusing on athlete performance improvement, injury prevention and operational efficiencies. Port Colborne is roughly 20 minutes from the Welland campus and 35 minutes from Niagara-on-the-Lake.

T E R M A N D H O U R S

Placements run from September 2026 to May 2027, aligned to the playing season. Fall-only and winter-only terms are available. Total placement hours will be set to meet the requirement of the student's program.

C O M P E N S A T I O N





This is a field placement completed for academic credit through an approved Niagara College program. The club provides team apparel, admission to home games, mileage reimbursement for club-directed travel outside Port Colborne, and a written reference and performance evaluation on completion. The club will complete and sign all placement documentation required by the College and assigns a named supervisor to each placement.

R E Q U I R E M E N T S

- Enrolment in a university or College program with a placement or practicum component, and confirmation from the College that the placement is approved under that program
- A current Ontario police record check including vulnerable sector screening, as several roles involve contact with players under 18
- A signed confidentiality agreement. Player evaluation, medical information, opponent analysis and commercial terms do not leave the staff group
- Reliable transportation to Port Colborne

H O W W E W O R K Two standards apply across every role. The first is accuracy: nothing is estimated, invented or filled in to make a document look complete. A blank cell is always better than a number with nothing behind it. The second is that the club does not overstate its role in anything, including its part in a player's development or a partner's results. Both standards apply to students exactly as they apply to staff.

H O W T O A P P L Y

Send a resume and a short note to [email protected] with "Event Management Intern" as the subject line.

Pay: $1.00-$2.00 per year

Benefits

- Flexible schedule
- In office parking

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Port Colborne, ON L3K 5W3

📌 Event Management Intern (Port Colborne)
🏢 Port Colborne Sailors
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