Job Description
About The Role
Salary: £27 per session (Session is 1.5 hours)
Forest Green Rovers are looking for Emerging Talent Centre Coaches to join on a casual contract.
In this role the coaches will be accountable for the welfare of children under their responsibility, in line with the club’s Safeguarding Children Policies. Coaches will be tasked with delivering sessions that focus on intensity, whilst improving the technical ability of the ETC’s players, and with helping to maintain our positive development environment.
The role is predominantly coaching on Thursday evenings, but we may also request your assistance on U15 or U16 matchdays which are typically Saturday mornings.
About You
The successful candidates will need to be able to deliver elite coaching sessions to ages 9-14 years old, in line with the pathway syllabus, as well as :
Essential
* Have knowledge of the elite female football landscape
* Minimum of a Level 2 football coaching badge
* 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
* Be a committed, enthusiastic, and highly motivated, showing a passion for promoting participation and love for the sport
Desirable
* UEFA B license Level 2 or 3 Supporting PE and school sport (or equivalent)
* Experience of working in an elite talent pathway (Desirable)
* Mentoring other staff through coaching/teaching
About Us
Founded in 1889, 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 only club in the world to have EMAS accreditation – the gold standard of environmental management – and we’re the first and only vegan football club in the world. Our aim is to be in the Championship within the next five years – and we’re planning to build a stadium to match those ambitions, too, it has been designed by Zaha Hadid, and would be the only stadium in the world made entirely of wood.
As a valued member of the team you will be supporting the Group Environmental policy and its associated targets to make the Green Britain Group net carbon neutral by 2025
Flexibility statement
The fast moving nature of the company's business means that from time to time you may be asked to perform duties or tasks outside of your original job description on an ad hoc basis. This allows the company to use its people in the best possible way at all times and helps the employees to make their contribution in a changing environment.
Forest Green Rovers is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to providing equality for all.