Job Purpose
To assist the Senior Football Development Officer and Football Development Officer to plan, deliver and evaluate physical activities within Education and Community settings to all members of the Community within east London & Essex.

To ensure activities are safe and suitable for all participants involved.

To supervise and support participants ensuring protocols are followed at all times.

To contribute to the WHU Foundation mission of encouraging sports participation, promoting health and wellbeing and improvement life opportunities.

Main Responsibilities
Community Engagement:
• Prepare and implement well – structured and progressive coaching programme ensuring high quality, enjoyable coaching experience centred around the needs of the partners
• Clearly brief a team of sessional coaches prior to sessions and to provide appropriate feedback on performance afterwards
• Enable people to become involved in local activities and develop skills which will contribute to increased sports participation in the area
• Provide support and advice to community groups / teams and individuals to facilitate their development
• To identify the needs of schools, participants and groups to put together a work plan including objectives, outputs and outcomes relevant to appropriate timescales.
• Liaise with local sports and activities clubs and leisure providers to provide a range of exit strategies for individuals from the programme
• Liaise with semi-professional football clubs to develop relationships for possible LA partnership growth and playing exit routes for learners.

Programme Development and Delivery:
• Deliver WHU Football & Community Sports Coaching Sessions
• Deliver WHU Holiday Course Provision
• To deliver in accordance to all WHU Schemes of Work
• To produce up to date session plans for all delivery
• To complete all Risk Assessment procedures and protocols
• Adhere to all safeguarding requirements required by the school and WHU Foundation.
• To carry out quality assurance
• To upload registers on VIEWS system
• To develop and sustain new commercial delivery within east London and Essex

Partnership working:
• To work in partnership with other agencies identified by the Senior Football Development Officer & Football Development Manager to identify individuals, groups, and organisations to support and develop the programme.
• To work through a partnership approach to identify the barriers preventing easy access to services for local people within their locality;
• Work in partnership with other workers and agencies as necessary;

Events and Training:
• Deliver cluster tournaments, fun days and road shows across Essex
• Identify people and organisations from the community who may benefit from the programme
• Represent WHU Foundation at all local community events across our target areas
• Embrace all CPD Opportunities through both the school and WHU Foundation
• Other responsibilities at the discretion of the school Head Teacher and WHU Foundation Senior FDO

Monitoring and Evaluation:
• To carry out administrative duties as necessary e.g. maintain accurate attendance, registers, and quality assurance using the Premier League VIEWS systems
• To contribute towards the evaluation of the various initiatives and ensure monitoring systems are consistently maintained as directed by Senior Football Development Officer.

Other:
• To provide an accessible and flexible approach at all times, including the working of unsocial hours, evening and weekend working as necessary and other duties as reasonably requested
• Adhere to policies and procedures outlined by the Senior Football Development Officer.
• Maintain and deliver to the high corporate standards of both West Ham United Foundation and the school.

Freedom to act:
• Independently organise work plan, information storage, retrieval and collation systems, diary and working time (including out of hours)
• Regular lone working in the community

Communication:
• Use of highly developed culturally competent communication skills with community members and organisations to negotiate, influence, and resolve conflict that may arise
• Facilitate the involvement of community members in the reporting of needs, outputs and outcomes

Equal Opportunities
• To ensure that all departments are provided within an anti-discriminatory framework and take account of such issues as race, gender, sexuality, disability, religion and age.

• To carry out work in a manner which promotes equality of opportunity for both staff and clients.

Person Specification
Essential (E) Desirable (D) Trainable (T)
Education/qualifications/experience
• Experience of delivering sports coaching within schools and community (E)
• Clean DBS record (E)
• UEFA B Licence / Level 3 or working towards (D)
• FA Youth Modules 1 & 2 or working towards (E)
• Emergency First Aid Certificate (E)
• Safeguarding Awareness Training (E)
• Member of FA Licenced Coaches Club or relevant awarding body (E)
• Multi Sports Coaching Qualifications (E)
• AFPE Qualification or working towards (E)
• Experience of teaching English as a foreign language (D)
• Experience of developing girls sport and in particular female football programmes (D)
• Coaching and mentoring Level 3 qualification (E)
• Clean Driving Licence (E)

Knowledge
• Demonstrate an understanding of mentoring (E)
• Demonstrate a good understanding of how to engage young people (E)
• Demonstrate an good understanding of Elite Player Performance Plan (EPPP) and Academy Pathway (D)
• Demonstrate an understanding of how to improve sports participation (E)
• Demonstrate a basic understanding of marketing and how this is relevant to community engagement (E)
• Demonstrate an understanding of the national curriculum in numeracy and literacy (E)

Skills and abilities
• Must be able to demonstrate excellent oral and written communication / presentation skills, which are culturally competent (E)
• ICT Literate (E)
• Demonstrable skills in negotiation, influencing and conflict resolution (E)
• Able to work within a diverse community and draw on individual strengths to promote sports participation (E)
• Able to communicate with participants, partner agencies and the public (E)
• Good organisational skills, able to prioritise and work within deadlines (E)
• Flexible working in accordance with the requirements of the service which will include working evenings and weekends where applicable. (E)
• Commitment to develop and improve own performance and CPD (E)
• Ability to work independently, line manage, supervise and motivate team members (E)
• Strong commitment to quality service delivery (E)
• Ability to get on with a wide range of people (E)
• Ability to monitor and evaluate programme delivery and report writing (E)

Understanding and commitment to the Club’s Equality Policy and ability to promote anti-discriminatory practice.

We are committed to the principle of equality and equal opportunities in employment. We will actively promote equality and equal opportunities in our business to ensure that individuals receive treatment that is fair and equitable and consistent with their relevant aptitudes, potential skills and abilities. Employees will be recruited and selected, promoted and trained on the basis of objective criteria.

West Ham United Foundation is an organisation committed to equality and safeguarding children and vulnerable adults. Positions that involve working with such groups are subject to safer recruitment protocols, including DBS Disclosure at enhanced level.

Responsible to:
Football Development Manager and Senior Football Development (West Ham United Foundation)

Responsible for:
Plan and deliver high quality sports provision

Accountable to:
Chief Executive Officer (West Ham United Foundation)

Salary:
£21,000 per annum

How to apply
To apply please email your CV with a covering letter and return e-mail address to hr@westhamunited.co.uk by Wednesday 28th September 2016

Due to the expected large number of applicants only those candidates called for interview will be contacted.