Junior Rugby Academy Coach

23 hours ago

Cardiff, United Kingdom Cardiff and Vale College Full time

**Internal / External Vacancy**

**Ref: 11793**

**Job Title: Junior Rugby Academy Coach**

**Contract: Part Time, Fixed Term - 05/09/22- 28/04/23**

**Salary: £12.09 an hour (PTHP)**

**Hours: 7 hours per week, 28 weeks - 196 Hours**

Cardiff and Vale College is looking for a Junior Rugby Academy Coach to support the Head of Rugby in the day-to-day running of the rugby academy programme.

Key roles and responsibilities for the post include:

- Working with the Head of Department and WRU to ensure that the college can attain and maintain Academy status.
- Responsible to Head of Rugby for the day-to-day management of the Rugby programme. To create a culture, which encourages high personal standards on and off the field, commensurate with a high-performance environment.
- To lead on junior academy fixtures on Wednesday afternoons.
- Implement a succession-planning programme through recruitment, retention and transition of players into the senior college team(s).
- Support a playing and training strategy which is coherent to the players and recognises the strengths and weaknesses of the team and individuals.
- Encourage the use of analysis systems to develop the team and individuals.
- Assist the Head of Rugby with written criteria for the selection of players, which should be based on personal and positional qualities. These criteria should be published to players.
- Attend trials and other fixtures in order to identify talented players.
- Manage players schedule to include the following: - strength and conditioning monitoring, injury evaluation, practice times, ensure clarity of communication systems, recovery sessions, meeting times and match day preparation.
- Support Head of Rugby with a playing style which is both effective and utilises the strengths of the team(s).
- Ensure players receive adequate feedback on performances during training, playing and 1:1 review meeting(s).
- Assist in the College’s open evenings, cross college interview events, invigilation and enrolment events.
- To work on a flexible basis including evenings and at weekends at any of the College’s sites or on activities with learners.
- Welsh language skills would be desirable for this post.

Your employment with Cardiff and Vale College will also be dependent on suitable reference checks, before you are able to commence employment, Cardiff and Vale College must have received two references, one being from your present or most recent employer. We will contact your referees upon appointment.

Registration with the Educational Workforce Council for Wales (EWC Wales) is a mandatory requirement of the post

**These are contractual agreements that must be in place before your employment can commence.**

We are committed to the recruitment and retention of disabled people, and are a positive disability confident scheme employer.

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