As a Football Coach at Bloomsbury Football Foundation, you're the person who brings it all to life. You'll lead high-quality sessions for children and young people across London, working directly with players and their parents as the face of BFF on the pitch. Every session is a chance to build confidence, spark a love of the game, and show a young person what they're capable of.
You'll start with our six-week summer holiday programme, coaching ages 4–18 from 9am to 3pm, Monday to Thursday. Coaches who thrive over the summer can keep going with BFF year-round, across sessions in schools and community hubs and specialist provision for refugees and young asylum seekers, young people with disabilities, and grassroots, academy, and club players. Day to day, you'll plan and deliver sessions that leave players better than they arrived.
And you won't do it alone. You'll have all the equipment you need, best-in-class CPD, a structured curriculum, and senior coaches in your corner, plus a tight-knit coaching community that grows together. For the coaches who shine, there's a real path to continued contract work or a full-time role.
Bloomsbury Football Foundation is the place to build your coaching career while changing young lives.
The BFF Standard:
- Keep high standards, always. You hold yourself to a high standard without being asked. You take pride in your work, and you push for quality even when the minimum would do.
- Take responsibility. You own your work, your decisions, and your mistakes. You don't wait to be chased, you follow through, fix things when they go wrong, and bring solutions instead of just identifying challenges.
- Be hungry to grow. You actively push to get better each day. You seek feedback, act on it, and look for opportunities to stretch yourself. You see this role as a place to build something, in yourself as much as in BFF.
- Stay calm under pressure. You stay effective when things get hard, priorities shift, or plans change. You recover from setbacks quickly and don't let pressure affect your performance or the people around you.
- Maintain outstanding comms. Your communication, written and spoken, is clear, professional, and well-suited to your audience.
- Be mission minded. You believe in what BFF is doing, not just in football, but specifically in the power of football to change young people's lives. You're here because of the mission, not just the role.
- Be a team player. You work well with others, and you add to the team around you. You step up when it's needed to support the end goal and you measure success by what the team achieves together.
- Remain agile. You thrive in fast-moving environments where plans evolve and priorities shift. You don't need everything to be fixed to perform at your best, and you see change as part of growth.
- Do the right thing. Especially when no one is watching. You represent BFF with warmth and professionalism in every interaction, and you take your responsibilities to the organisation and the people we serve seriously.
BFF Coaching Skills:
- Structured and creative session delivery. You plan and deliver sessions with clear objectives, good progressions, and real energy. Your sessions are consistently high quality, and players leave better than they arrived.
- Ability to adapt in the moment. You read players in real time and adjust what you're doing based on what they need. You lean into what works and learn from what doesn’t, continuously evolving your coaching practice to better serve your players.
- Authentic engagement with young people. You invest in knowing your players as individuals, their lives, their motivations, and their challenges. You create an environment where every young person feels safe, valued, and included.
- Committed to safeguarding and professional conduct. You take your safeguarding responsibilities seriously and apply BFF's policies without ambiguity. You maintain appropriate professional boundaries, and you raise concerns immediately through the right channels.
- Excellent with adults. You communicate with parents, carers, coaches, and other counterparts in a way that is warm, clear, and professional. You build relationships proactively and handle difficult conversations with empathy.
Essential Criteria
- FA Level 1 Coaching Qualification OR 1 year of experience working as a football coach
- Experience working with young people
- Availability to work across the 6 weeks holiday 9am-3pm
- Eligibility to work in the UK
This role is subject to an Enhanced DBS check
Desirable Criteria
- FA Safeguarding for Children certificate
- FA First Aid certificate
- Working towards or in possession of a UEFA C / FA Level 2 coaching qualification
- Experience delivering community, disability, or refugee football sessions
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Ongoing internal and external accredited CPD programme
- Best-in-class coaching resources, including session planning tools, branded Nike coaching kit and equipment, and regular video analysis of your coaching practice
- A dedicated cohort of coaches who support each other's development
- Central London base at our office in Camden Markets: sofas to relax, quiet zones for focused work and breakout areas for collaboration, and a range of snacks and refreshments as well as a dedicated coach working space kitted out with whiteboard tables, tactic boards, a coaching bookshelf, and analysis TVs.
- Local Camden Markets discounts
- Free Gym & Fitness classes
- Regular staff socials and football matches
- Monthly ‘Team Talk’ with pop-up catering
- Opportunity to win free tickets to Premier League, FA Cup, League Cup, and Champions League football matches
- 29 days of annual leave + bank holidays
- Cycle to work scheme
- Be part of a growing organisation making a real difference to young people's lives across London
Bloomsbury Football Foundation is a registered charity founded in 2018 and based in Camden, London, using football to tackle some of the biggest challenges facing young people today. We make football accessible to over 7,000 children and young people every week through a financial assistance model that removes the barriers of cost and targets areas of greatest deprivation, bringing together young people from different socioeconomic backgrounds, ethnicities and nationalities in the process.
In just six years we've grown from a £1m to a £5m organisation, and we're now at an inflection point, expanding beyond London and building towards reaching over 40,000 young people every week by 2031. We're a fast-paced, ambitious team based out of a modern office in Camden Market, and we're committed to the personal growth of every person who joins us. If you want to do meaningful work, be given real responsibility from day one, and be part of something that no other sport-for-good charity in the UK has achieved — this is the place for you.
At Bloomsbury Football Foundation, we believe that the best teams reflect the communities they serve. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace where people of all backgrounds, identities and experiences feel welcome, valued and able to do their best work. We particularly encourage applications from women and people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, who are currently underrepresented in our team. We assess every candidate on their ability, potential and values, nothing else. If you care about what we do and believe you have something to contribute, we want to hear from you.
