Location:
Forest Green
Salary Details:
£12 per hour
Advertising End Date:
22 Nov 2024
About The Role
Responsibilities include:
* To recruit, organise and manage a team of local scouts to support the Academy and Youth Development Programme at all levels.
* Produce and maintain a database of potential players from other Premier/Football League Clubs (Academy level 1/2) from ‘local grassroots’ football (liaise with Forest Green Rovers FC First Team Head of Recruitment on all players deemed suitable).
* Produce and maintain a database of all players at Academy Level who meet the desired Forest Green Rovers FC Academy Player Profile and are deemed suitable for consideration to play for Forest Green Rovers FC Academy.
* To develop a network of scouting contacts within the South West Region and beyond and develop a communication strategy with such contacts in order to identify suitable players that meet the required Forest Green Rovers FC Academy Player Profile and are considered suitable for selection into Forest Green Rovers FC Academy.
* To continuously monitor the recruitment process and administration ensuring that it is fit for purpose and identifying the appropriate talent.
* To liaise with the Forest Green Rovers FC First Team Head of Recruitment to ensure that the recruitment strategy is within budget.
* To ensure the Forest Green Rovers FC First Team Head of Recruitment is informed of all trialist players attending the Academy at any time, ensuring that all relevant documentation where required (EFL Youth Development Rules and Regulations) is completed and filed.
This is a part-time position based on a 15-hour work week, with some flexibility required.
About You
Essential:
* Experience of working in Youth Development
* Enhanced FA CRB Certificate
* FA Level 2 Coaching Certificate
* Knowledge and understanding of FA and EFL rules relating to player development and recruitment
* Experience of working within a strategic environment to support the long term development of players
* Good communication and interpersonal skills
* Organisational and administration skills
* Ability to work within a team effectively & efficiently
* FA Talent ID qualification Level 2
Forest Green Rovers FC promote inclusion and confront and eliminate discrimination whether by reason of age, gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, marital status or civil partnership, nationality, ethnicity (race), religion or belief, ability or disability, pregnancy and maternity and encourage equal opportunities. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons.
The EFL has introduced positive action measures aimed at tackling the under-representation of coaches and managers from Black, Asian and Minority Ethic (BAME) backgrounds. New regulations require clubs to shortlist at least one suitably qualified BAME candidate (where an application has been received) for all roles in Academy football that require a UEFA A or UEFA B Licence.
If you consider your ethnicity to fall within one of the following definitions – Black, Asian or other Minority Ethnic (i.e. from any other ethnic group that is not ‘White British’) - please inform us within your application.
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.
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.
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