FGR Community’s vision is to change lives in our local community and use the unique appeal of Forest Green Rovers Football Club to spread aspiration and make a difference to the lives of people within the Stroud district and beyond. Forest Green Rovers is a unique football club, recognised by FIFA as the “world’s greenest football club” securing coverage from around the globe for its environmentally focused ethos. 

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 and/or leading high-quality delivery. 

As a 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 matchday, school-based and community sessions.

The role may require you to be available on matchdays, which are typically every other Saturday or a weekday evening.

The successful candidate/s will need to be able to deliver a range of active sessions, such as coaching football-based activities on our soccer camps and in community settings and supporting occasional after school and curriculum-based classroom sessions.

Essential

• Minimum of a Level 1 football coaching badge
• Knowledge of the FA Coaching Pathway
• Experience of working or volunteering within either school, club, or community sporting settings
• Ability to plan, deliver & evaluate coaching sessions
• Good communication, organisational and interpersonal skills
• Enhanced DBS Certificate or Current FA DBS Clearance
• FA Safeguarding & Emergency aid/ BFAS Qualifications
• Ability 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
• Mentoring other staff through coaching/teaching
• Knowledge of the national curriculum for children aged 5-11 years and/or 11-16 years
• Knowledge and understanding of the charity, voluntary and community sector
• A 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 sport
• Experience with Quality Assurance Reporting platforms
• Experience facilitating cup, camps, and curriculum programmes
• Working with socially excluded young people and vulnerable adults
• Teaching Qualification, Level 2 Coaching Award or UEFA B license
• Level 2 or 3 Supporting PE and school sport (or equivalent)
• Clean Driver’s License

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.