Job Description
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Job Overview
To deliver high-quality football training sessions in line with We Make Footballers’ product standards. The Lead Coach supports the Academy Manager by leading coaching delivery for their group, ensuring children are engaged, learning, and having fun. The Lead Coach also helps guide and develop Assistant Coaches to deliver sessions confidently and effectively.
Duties
- Deliver engaging, age-appropriate football sessions following the We Make Footballers session plans and structure
- Lead your group’s warm up, drills, and matches, ensuring all activities align with the 10-10-10-30 format
- Support the Academy Manager in maintaining high standards across all coaching groups
- Eventually mentor and guide Assistant Coaches, helping them learn how to lead drills and develop their coaching confidence
- Ensure players are grouped appropriately by ability and feel welcomed, supported, and challenged
- Communicate clearly with the coaching team before and during sessions
Main Responsibilities
- Upon arrival help with the set up the equipment needed for the session
- Uphold all health and safety protocols
- Maintain a positive, professional attitude towards players, parents, and team members
- Ensure all sessions are inclusive, high energy, and fun for players of all ability levels
- Contribute to packing away and ensuring all equipment is counted and stored correctly
Measures of Performance
- Player numbers
- Trialist conversion rate
- Cancellation rate
- Retention rate
- Customer reviews
- Player engagement and development
Core Competencies
- Strong communication and coaching skills
- Proactive, organised and reliable
- High energy and enthusiastic
- Works well as part of a team
- Passionate about football and youth development
Required Availability
- Allocated sessions; for sessions that will require additional support
- Minimum arrival time: 30 minutes before the session begins
Safeguarding and Compliance
The Lead Coach must carry out their responsibilities with due regard to We Make Footballers policies and procedures. They must always act in line with safeguarding policies and procedures, ensuring the welfare of children. A valid DBS certificate and completion of the Thinkific coaching course is required, in particular the first aid and safeguarding modules.
Any misconduct or concerns must be reported to the Academy Manager, Franchise Owner or Head Office team.
Franchise Owner Email: croydon@wemakefootballers.com
Head Office: info@wemakefootballers.com
The Lead Coach must treat others fairly and respectfully and foster positive working relationships among all team members and customers. They must not commit any form of direct or indirect discrimination.
Pay: £13.00-£17.00 per hour
Benefits:
- Employee mentoring programme
Application question(s):
- Are you able to drive to sessions?
Experience:
- Football coaching: 1 year (preferred)
Licence/Certification:
- DBS (preferred)
- FA Level 1 (preferred)
Work authorisation:
- United Kingdom (preferred)
Work Location: In person
The UK’s most trusted junior football coaching:
We believe that England needs a stronger grassroots program if the next generation are to love the sport and bring England our second world cup. While grassroots is the heartbeat of kids loving football, parents are rarely trained or equipped to introduce the sport in those crucial early stages, especially with such large groups and little support.
Guided discovery helps to develop creative problem solvers:
200+ players signed at pro clubs
Over the years we’ve developed a discovery learning theory to make our training fun, but effective. With over 200 players signed to professional clubs, it seems to be working!
The right approach:
We find if you give players all the answers, they get lazy. They don’t think for themselves. They can’t problem solve. We want to present situations in which the environment teaches them and they can learn continuously with no fear of making mistakes.
We Make Footballers believe in a combination of learning through discovery, guided discovery and occasionally an autocratic (controlling) coaching style.Guided discovery will often speed up the process in which the player finds the ‘right answer’. With trial and error, we are hoping the child gets the answer, however it may not come. The guidance points them in the right direction (the right direction is always open to interpretation).
We recruit the best young coaches in the country:
We are the strength of our football coaching, and we’ve gone a long way to find the best junior football coaches in the country.
Our coaches are professional highly trained people who have a talent and passion for coaching and teaching! With continual professional development and the monitoring of each coach's progression within the company, we are able to keep our team motivated and passionate every session.
In addition to encouraging our coaches to pursue further FA Qualifications, we have developed our own We Make Footballers coach training course which allows our staff to flourish. This ensures we keep consistent quality each and every week.