Casual Coach

**The Basics**
- Salary - £10.18 -£14.27 depending on experience
- Reporting to - Programme Manager / Delivery Lead
- Location - Based in Manchester with daily travel to delivery sites and working from home
- Hours - Casual
- Contract type - Zero Hours

**Job overview**

We are looking for a casual Coach to join our squad in Manchester region where we deliver our interventions in a variety of different settings, both during the school timetable and after school.

You will be working with some of the hardest to reach young people who are most at risk of exclusion, in small groups of 8-10. We use sport as a hook and mentorship as an anchor. You will help to deliver sports-based sessions combined with employability workshops to enable young people to be in a better position to enter sustained education, employment or training (EET) when they leave school. The delivery team always work in pairs, running our interventions across a variety of settings. We are currently looking for someone to cover Oldham and Possibly Warrington.

The hours would potentially be Monday 14.00 -15.00; Liverpool, possibly Monday and Wednesday night in Warrington. Wednesday 16.00- 18.00 in Liverpool. These hours can be discussed at interview and can be flexible, more hours may become available.

You do not need to be a rugby fanatic for this role, but you do need to be passionate about social mobility of the excluded. We are looking for someone with a youth work, teaching or sports coaching background to help strengthen our team as we work towards our forward strategy.

**What the job involves**
- Run Dallaglio RugbyWorks sessions in a range of provisions, building meaningful and supportive relationships with young people in the sessions.
- Support Delivery Leads & Lead Coaches to deliver session plans that link to our schemes of work and broader curriculum.
- Deliver fun and engaging sports-based activities with young people, incorporating the values of rugby into your delivery.
- Act as a facilitator for delivering Dallaglio RugbyWorks suite of interventions against the curriculum aims. Including the delivery of digital skills workshops, employability workshops and the coordination of trips such as Career Taster Days and tournaments.
- Support the Delivery Lead or Lead Coach to ensure the implementation of Player profiles within your sessions.
- Responsible for the collection of monitoring and evaluation data for all sessions that you attend.
- Adapt to changing school environments and work creatively to deliver sessions to a range of young people.
- Establish and maintain professional relationships with staff within the settings that we work in.
- To follow the Dallaglio RugbyWorks processes around reporting incidents and safeguarding concerns to ensure we are protecting young people to the highest standard.
- Get involved in other projects and pieces of work to support Dallaglio RugbyWorks.

**Who you are**

Essential
- Previous experience delivering youth work, sport sessions or supporting young people in an educational setting.
- A passion to help change young peoples lives and helping them to build a positive, productive future.
- Able to demonstrate effective and engaging coaching skills across a range of sports.
- Enthusiasm for using sport as a tool for social change, in particular rugby and its values.
- Being approachable, positive, empathetic and patient.
- Ability to resolve conflict peacefully.
- Reliable and excellent time keeping.

Desirable
- Drivers license and access to a car or alternative travel to your allocated sessions.
- Sports coaching or youth work qualification/training.
- Previous experience delivering young work, mentoring or sports based sessions to at risk young people in a range of settings.
- An understanding of the exclusion landscape.

**Job Type**: Zero hours contract

**Salary**: £10.18-£14.27 per hour

Work Location: In person