Community Coach

1 month ago

Stroud UK, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom Forest Green Rovers Football Club Part time

Salary Details: £24,960 pro rata (16 hours a week)


About The Role


FGR Community’s vision is to change lives in our local community and use the unique appeal of Forest Green Rovers Football Club to spread aspiration and make a difference to the lives of people within the Stroud district and beyond. Forest Green Rovers is a unique football club, recognised by FIFA as the “world’s greenest football club” securing coverage from around the globe for its environmentally focused ethos.


The candidate/s will join an innovative and developing Community Trust and work closely alongside the football club to deliver community focussed initiatives, projects and programmes non-match days, match days and in our popular holiday camps. We are looking for dynamic, energetic, creative, and flexible team members who are prepared to hit the ground running.

Reporting to Project co-ordinators, the successful candidate/s will be responsible for high-quality delivery, primarily, but not restricted to our Premier League Kicks and Premier League Primary Stars programmes.


If you are prepared to help grow existing delivery and contribute to successfully commissioning projects, there will be plenty of opportunities to progress in this role. You will be fully supported in your continued professional development.


The successful candidate/s will need to be able to support the delivery of a range of active sessions, such as coaching football-based activities on our soccer camps and in community settings. The main aspects on delivery will be on our Premier League Programmes. Flexible working will be required for this role as well as evening and weekend work.


Premier League Kicks - Premier League Kicks uses the power of football and sport to inspire young people to reach their potential. We run sessions during the weekday evenings, providing young people with an opportunity for free sports sessions around Gloucestershire.


  • Build positive relations with diverse groups of young people from various backgrounds.
  • Plan and deliver age-appropriate sessions which focus on developing life skills, along with fundamental skills and techniques, promoting enjoyment for the game across the whole Kicks programme (including Disability and Girls sessions);
  • Support in the delivery of tournaments/matches, refereeing or managing young people, ensuring that they all receive equal playing time and experience;
  • Maintain clear and consistent communication with participants, parents, community partners and other coaching staff;


Premier League Primary Stars – Primary Stars Coaches work within schools to deliver sport and educational interventions as part of the Premier League Primary Stars programmes. Supporting to develop and increase confidence, motivation and aspirations of young people.


  • Deliver 1:1 and small group sessions empowering young people to overcome potential barriers to education.
  • Support the professional development of teaching staff, which builds skills and confidence to deliver high quality P.E.
  • Able to encourage, motivate and enthuse young people to participate, promoting positive attitudes towards education.
  • Ability to work on own initiative and deliver a high-quality schools offer to include curriculum P.E. delivery, extra-curricular football sessions, targeted interventions and education activations that meet the needs of partner schools, subjects including English, Maths, PSHE and PE.


Additional responsibilities of the role:


  • Lead coaching at Soccer Camps – You will be responsible for up to 20 young people, providing; fun, inclusive, engaging, age-appropriate sessions throughout the day
  • Collect and process data for all programmes
  • Working on match days


Coaches will be accountable for the welfare of children and vulnerable adults under their supervision, in line with the Trust’s Safeguarding Children and Vulnerable Adult Policies. We also expect individuals to embrace equality, diversity, and inclusivity to facilitate a consistent, coordinated, and embedded approach to fairness and opportunity across the Trust. The role may require you to be available on matchdays, which are typically every other Saturday or a weekday evening.




About You


Essential


  • Knowledge of the FA Coaching Pathway and a minimum of a Level 2 football coaching badge or Youth Work level 2
  • Experience of working or volunteering within either school, club, or community sporting settings
  • Ability to plan, deliver & evaluate coaching sessions
  • Good communication, organisational and interpersonal skills
  • Enhanced CRB Certificate or Current FA DBS Clearance
  • FA Safeguarding & Emergency aid/ BFAS Qualifications
  • Ability to work within a team effectively & efficiently and buy-in to the environmental ethos
  • Computer Literate
  • Ability to build relationships with young people


Desirable


  • UEFA C/Level 2 (or equivalent)
  • Level 3 AfPe qualification
  • Level 3/4 TA/HLTA qualification
  • D1 minibus licence
  • Experience of working in a charity or community organisation
  • Mentoring other staff through coaching/teaching
  • Knowledge and understanding of the charity, voluntary and community sector
  • A desire to pursue a career in the football industry and be a committed, enthusiastic, and highly motivated, showing a passion for promoting participation and love for the sport
  • Experience facilitating cup competitions, holiday camps, and school curriculum programmes
  • Working with socially excluded young people and vulnerable adults



About Us


Forest Green Rovers is a football club with a rich history, but we are always working to be at the forefront of something new. FIFA have described us as the greenest football club in the world, it is certainly true that no other football club in the world has put the environment at the heart of what it does, and embedded into it’s DNA like we have.


We’re the first vegan football club in the world and we’re planning to build a stadium to match those ambitions, too, it has been designed by Zaha Hadid and is part of a 100 acre multi-use site, giving huge potential for future growth.


FGR is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to providing equality for all. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons.

Ensure all safeguarding procedures are followed for children and adults at risk, as per the Club’s policy.


Employee Benefits


  • 25 days holiday excluding public holidays, pro-rated if part time hours
  • Simply Health Benefits Scheme
  • EAP Support
  • Generous pension scheme
  • Life Assurance Policy

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