Are you passionate about developing the next generation of goalkeeping coaches?
The Football Association is seeking a Goalkeeping Casual Coach Developer to play a key role in strengthening and growing the coaching network across England. In this rewarding position, you will deliver high-quality England Football Learning courses, facilitate practical goalkeeping sessions, and create an inclusive learning environment that inspires collaboration, discussion and development.
What will you do?
- Classroom Delivery
- Support learners in linking online learning with face-to-face components, delivering an effective learning environment using a range of teaching approaches to meet the needs of the learners.
- Understands how to apply FA Learning principles to activity design and delivery, ensuring it helps the coach transfer knowledge into their context with effective feedback.
- Practical Delivery
- Teach the role-specific requirements of a Goalkeeper, supporting the contextualisation into learners' setting using an inquiry-based approach whilst aiding the learner's reflective thinking.
- Deliver effective and engaging practical goalkeeping sessions on pitch that meet learners' needs; demonstrating excellent understanding of technical and tactical concepts aligned to the contexts of the coaches' work.
- Communication
- Builds high levels of rapport with learners, creating a learning environment where learners feel comfortable to share and discuss.
- Enthuses learners to want to continue learning beyond the formal aspects of the qualification.
- Conducts themselves in the manner intended and in line with the FA's Coach Developer Code of Conduct.
- Maintain mandatory training requirements, ensuring they are up to date at all times.
- Executes 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.
What You'll Need?
Essential for the role:
- FA Level 3 (UEFA B) in Coaching Football.
- FA Level 3 in Coaching Goalkeepers (UEFA Goalkeeping B Diploma).
- Extensive experience within Goalkeeper coaching in both coaching and coach development settings.
- 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:
- FA Level 4 (UEFA A) in Coaching Goalkeepers (Essential for those delivering on UEFA Goalkeeping B Diploma).
- Experience of delivering face-to-face learning to groups of learners.
- 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.
