Uefa B Fitness Casual Coach Developer

The Football Association; Wembley; Presencial; GBP 34 000 - 48 000; Tempo parcial

Resumo da oferta

The Football Association is seeking experienced and passionate Coach Developers to help shape the next generation of football fitness coaches. As a Coach Developer for the UEFA B Fitness Diploma, you will bring learning to life through engaging multi-modal delivery, helping coaches build the knowledge and practical skills to develop football-specific fitness in the modern game.

This role offers the opportunity to share expertise, inspire continued learning and make a meaningful impact on coaches

Qualificações

• Experience delivering to adults in an education setting.
• Knowledge of adult learning principles.
• Experience and knowledge of creating an inclusive delivery environment.
• Experience across the coach development framework.
• Experience of responding to developmental needs of individual coaches.

Responsabilidades

• Link online learning with face-to-face delivery to create engaging learning environments.
• Apply FA Learning principles to activity design and delivery with effective feedback.
• Contextualise the role requirements of a fitness coach for learners' settings using inquiry-based approaches.
• Deliver practical sessions aligned to coaches' contexts with clear technical and tactical grounding.
• Observe and support coaches in their own environments to drive meaningful development.
• Build high levels of rapport with learners and foster a safe, collaborative learning space.
• Promote continued learning beyond formal qualifications.
• Maintain DBS and safeguarding compliance as required by FA policies.

Conhecimentos

Adult learning principles

Learning technology

Inclusive delivery

Coach development framework

Adult learners

Learning delivery

Formação académica

Sport Science or Strength & Conditioning degree

Descrição da oferta de emprego

The FA is looking for experienced and passionate Coach Developers to help shape the next generation of football fitness coaches. As a Coach Developer for the UEFA B Fitness Diploma, you will bring learning to life through engaging multi-modal delivery, helping coaches build the knowledge and practical skills to develop football-specific fitness in the modern game. This is an exciting opportunity to share your expertise, inspire continued learning and make a meaningful impact on coaches within their own environments.

What will you do?

• Support learners in linking online learning with face-to-face components, delivering an effective learning environment using a range of approaches to meet the needs of the learners.
• Apply FA Learning principles to activity design and delivery, ensuring it helps the coach transfer knowledge into their context with effective feedback.
• Support understanding of the role specific requirements of a fitness coach, contextualising in learners own setting using an inquiry-based approach whilst aiding the learner's reflective thinking.
• Deliver effective and engaging practical sessions that meet learners' needs, demonstrating excellent understanding of technical and tactical concepts aligned to the contexts of the coaches' work.
• Support coaches in their own environment and use observations to support meaningful, individualised coach development.
• Build high levels of rapport with learners, creating a learning environment where learners feel comfortable to share and discuss.
• Enthuse learners to want to continue learning beyond the formal aspects of the qualification
• Conduct yourself in the manner intended and in line with the FA's Coach Developer Code of Conduct
• Maintain mandatory training requirements, ensuring they are in date at all times
• Execute additional tasks as required to meet the FA's changing priorities.
• Comply with all company policies and procedures to ensure the highest standards of health, safety and well-being can be maintained.
• As part of The FA's commitment to ensuring a safe environment for everyone in football, successful candidates will be required to complete a DBS check. The level of the check required will be based on the activity of the specific job role. Casual work is conditional upon receipt of a satisfactory DBS check result, which will be fairly considered on a case-by-case basis, in line with legislation and government guidance.

What You'll Need?

Essential for the role:

• Sport Science or Strength & Conditioning degree.
• 7+ years' experience in the professional game.
• Experience of delivering to adults in an education setting.
• Knowledge of adult learning principles.
• Experience and knowledge of creating an inclusive delivery environment.
• Relevant knowledge across the coach development framework.
• Experience of responding to the developmental needs of individual coaches.
• Competent use of learning technology.
• FA Level 2 in Emergency First Aid in Football (EFAiF)*
• FA Safeguarding Children* & FA DBS*

*Can be attained once successful in appointment.

Beneficial to have:

• Level 3 (UEFA B) in Coaching Football.
• Experience of delivering online learning to groups of learners.
• Actively working with players in a coaching capacity within the last 12 months.
• Experience of assessment in the workplace or formal educational settings.
• Knowledge of FA Learning Principles.

What's in it for you?

We pride ourselves on offering a competitive rate of pay as well as great opportunities to develop and grow in your role.

We are committed to ensuring everyone can flourish in their roles, and by doing this, we offer top-of-the-range facilities across two core business locations. We have unique office spaces under the arch of the iconic Wembley National Stadium, which is the home of English football. We are also delighted to have a world-class Elite Performance Centre, St. George's Park in Staffordshire, which is an exceptional setting to develop and inspire high-performing England teams and leaders.

We are a diverse workplace, aspiring to represent football across the country. The Football Association actively promotes inclusion and diversity, encouraging you to be the best version of yourself at work.

We welcome applications from everyone and are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. If you have any particular requirements in respect of the recruitment or interview process, please mention this during your application.

As part of The FA's commitment to ensuring a safe environment for everyone in football, successful candidates will be required to complete a DBS check. The level of the check required will be based on the activity of the specific job role. Casual work is conditional upon receipt of a satisfactory DBS check result, which will be fairly considered on a case-by-case basis, in line with legislation and government guidance