UEFA B Fitness Casual Coach Developer

Supports the UEFA B Fitness Diploma and helps shape the next generation of football fitness coaches. It brings learning to life through engaging multi-modal delivery, enabling coaches to build the knowledge and practical skills needed to develop football-specific fitness in the modern game. The postholder works with learners across online and face-to-face components and supports their development within their own coaching environments.

• Support learners in linking online learning with face-to-face components, delivering an effective learning environment using a range of approaches to meet learners' needs.
• Apply FA Learning principles to activity design and delivery so that coaches can transfer knowledge into their own context with effective feedback.
• Support understanding of the role-specific requirements of a fitness coach, contextualising these in learners' own settings through an inquiry-based approach and aiding reflective thinking.
• Deliver effective and engaging practical sessions that meet learners' needs and demonstrate excellent understanding of technical and tactical concepts aligned to the contexts of 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 in which learners feel comfortable to share and discuss.
• Enthuse learners to continue learning beyond the formal aspects of the qualification.
• Conduct themselves in line with the FA's Coach Developer Code of Conduct and maintain mandatory training requirements, ensuring these 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 are maintained.

• 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 and FA DBS, which can be attained once successful in appointment.
• Successful candidates must complete a DBS check, the level of which is based on the activity of the specific job role; casual work is conditional upon receipt of a satisfactory DBS check result, which is considered fairly on a case-by-case basis in line with legislation and government guidance.

• 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.

• Opportunities to develop and grow in the role.
• Access to top-of-the-range facilities across two core business locations, including unique office spaces under the arch of Wembley National Stadium and the world-class Elite Performance Centre at St. George's Park in Staffordshire.