About The Role The candidate/s will join an innovative and developing Community Trust and work closely alongside the football club to deliver community focused initiatives, projects and programmes non-match days, match days and in our popular holiday camps. We are looking for dynamic, energetic, creative, and flexible team members who are prepared to hit the ground running.
Reporting to Project co-ordinators, the successful candidate/s will be responsible for assisting high-quality delivery.
If you are prepared to help grow existing delivery and contribute to successfully commissioning projects, there will be plenty of opportunities to progress in this role. You will be fully supported in your continued professional development.
As an assistant casual Community Coach, you will be key to the success and growth of the Community Trust, allowing the charity to expand operations and to continue to deliver high quality sessions.
New coaches will be accountable for the welfare of children and vulnerable adults under their responsibility, in line with the Trust's Safeguarding Children and Vulnerable Adult Policies.
We also expect individuals to embrace equality, diversity, and inclusivity to facilitate a consistent, co-ordinated, and embedded approach to fairness and opportunity across the Trust.
About You Essential Minimum of a Level 1 football coaching badgeExperience of working or volunteering within either school, club, or community sporting settingsAbility to support the planning, delivering & evaluation coaching sessions Good communication, organisational and interpersonal skillsFA Safeguarding & Emergency aid/ BFAS QualificationsAbility to work within a team effectively & efficiently and buy-in to the environmental ethos Computer Literate Desirable Experience of working in a charity or community organisation Knowledge and understanding of the charity, voluntary and community sectorA desire to pursue a career in the football industry and be a committed, enthusiastic, and highly motivated, showing a passion for promoting participation and love for the sportExperience supporting cups, camps, or curriculum programmes 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 it's people in the best possible way at all times and helps the employees to make make their contribution in a changing environment.
Forest Green Rovers is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to providing equality for all.
