Football Coach

Are you passionate about Football coaching and youth development? Do you have the drive to help build one of the region’s most exciting Football academy programmes? USP College is looking for a dynamic and committed Football Coach to join the USP Storm Football Academy.

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Job Details

You will play a key role in supporting and delivering high-quality coaching and development for male and female student-athletes aged 16–19, while also contributing to the expansion and sustainability of the USP Storm Football Academy programme. Working closely with the Storm Coordinator, you will help strengthen player pathways, develop competitive opportunities, and engage local communities and schools.

Duties and Responsibilities

  • Deliver and develop high-quality coaching across male and female Football teams
  • Support player development pathways and promote inclusive participation
  • Build strategic links with local Football clubs and national organisations
  • Assist in organising Football tours, coaching camps, and competitions
  • Drive initiatives to increase engagement among under-represented groups
  • Support facility management and ensure safe, effective learning environments
  • Promote equality, diversity, safeguarding, and student well-being

Job Requirements

Essential:

  • FA Level 1 Coaching Qualification (minimum)
  • Experience in Football or Sports Development
  • Coaching experience with 16–19-year-olds in an academy or college environment
  • Strong interpersonal, communication and teamwork skills
  • Driving licence and IT proficiency
  • Ability to plan strategically, set goals, and manage multiple priorities

Desirable:

  • Undergraduate degree in a relevant subject
  • Knowledge of Football structures at national and local levels
  • Experience within educational settings
  • Project management and leadership skills

 

Why choose us?

Our strategy is to create a Career Focused, Digital Learning environment, ensuring that the learner experience and our relationship within our community, local and regional employers, are at the heart of everything we do. We are proud to be selected as finalists for the AoC Beacon awards for effective use of digital Technology in FE. Providing a high achieving, focused learning environment allowing our students to achieve the grades they need for higher educations, or the skills and aptitude required to secure a suitable role in their chosen career. Our college is set in the leafy suburbs of Essex, with easy access to surrounding areas and amenities, we are based in a well-connected location both by road and rail.

What we offer:

* subject to terms & conditions

This role is considered exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020. Which means that when applying for certain jobs and activities certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’, so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide.  It is an offence to apply for the role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.

Shortlisted candidates will be required to complete a self-declaration of their criminal record or information that would make them unsuitable to work with children. Self-declaration is subject to Ministry of Justice guidance on the disclosure of criminal records, further information can be found on GOV UK

USP College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults, we therefore expect all staff to share this commitment. The successful applicant will be required to undertake an enhanced disclosure via the Disclosure and Barring Service, and any other checks that the role requires to ascertain suitability for working with children and/or vulnerable adults, which may include online searches.

We will hold and process any personal data, including sensitive (special category) personal data, relating to you in accordance with our legal obligations, in the manner set out in the Privacy Notice for staff and in accordance with our Data Protection Policy, which is set out on the College’s website, found here. You should familiarise yourself with our Data Protection Policy (and all other subsidiary policies to it) and comply with them at all times. Neither the Privacy Notice for Staff nor those policies form a part of your contract of employment.