Football Coordinator

The Afghanistan and Central Asian Association (ACAA) is an award-winning registered charity with more than 23 years’ experience of helping Afghan refugees resettle and integrate into British society. ACAA is the main charity in London, and the only charity with a large unrivalled centre ideal for the delivery of its services, which are focused on supporting Afghans and Central Asians.

The charity was founded in 2000 by its current Director, Dr Nooralhaq Nasimi, who fled Afghanistan with his young family in 1999. They travelled for nine months across Europe before finally arriving in the UK to claim asylum. The challenges he faced trying to integrate into British society motivated him to establish ACAA and develop services that were missing in his experience.

**Project Summary**:
To support 100 Afghan and other Muslim girls, aged 11-16, from refugee and recent migrant communities to develop their participation in football. The project will enable them to develop football skills and knowledge, participate in games, and socialise in a female-only culturally appropriate ambience but within the wider open-access setting of public sports facilities and local parks. This will give the girls confidence to participate, reassure their parents that their cultural practices are being respected, and increase the visibility of girls’ participation in sport among the wider community.

This project will enable Muslim refugee girls,11-16, often excluded from mainstream sport, to play football for their physical and psychological health. It challenges public stereotypes and under-representation of Muslim girls in community sport. ACAA will create opportunities for local Muslim girls to play football in public spaces in West London.

**Key Duties and Responsibilities**:
The Girls Football Project coordinator (henceforth the Project Coordinator) will run the project together with the Outreach officer (henceforth the Outreach Officer). This includes ensuring best practice and, essentially, excellent project delivery for maximum beneficiary value.
- Build partnerships with local Sports clubs, youth centres, schools, colleges, mosques and community groups to develop referral and signposting relationships.
- Outreach and brand exposure is a central part of the role. The Coordinator will conduct and oversee outreach, as well as liaise with outreach officer, external agencies and community centres to publicise the project in West London and recruit participants.
- You will administer data monitoring and evaluation of the project in line with the project requirements including capturing data from participants regularly, assessing progress using different monitoring tools and recording data for evaluation purposes. You will report back to the Director with progress reports and expenditure advice.
- You will recruit qualified sessional female coaches to work with the Project Coordinator deliver the outcomes of the project.
- You will secure the training venue for the project
- You will create publicity materials for the project
- You will invite guest players to visit the project
- You will be responsible for safeguarding at the project delivery level
- You will recruit 10 volunteers to help the girls’ development and to help referee games. They will also play a role in developing the social/psychological mentoring aspect of the project in supporting and encouraging communication, self-esteem and confidence building.
- You will also be creative in planning and implementing activities and/or guest speakers for the football matches, addressing beneficiaries needs, identifying the areas they require support with, and providing them with the necessary support through referring them to relevant organisations for further support.
- The post holder will work together with the other Officer, the Outreach Officer, under direct supervision from the Director and will collaborate with other ACAA staff.
- Develop productive working relationships with Girls football project team and other staff within the organisation.
- Work productively with other stakeholders (i.e local community groups), maintaining existing relationships across the sector.

**Job Type**: Part-time
Part-time hours: 24 per week

**Salary**: £17,000.00 per year

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

- FELTHAM: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Work Location: One location