Company Description
Carlisle United Community Sports Trust is the official charity of Carlisle United Football Club, delivering significant social value to the community. Operating three main departments—Delivery, Education, and Inclusion—the trust works on a variety of impactful projects aimed at improving social welfare, education, health, and well-being. Engaging over 24,000 people annually across Cumbria, the organization uses the power of football to inspire, educate, and positively transform lives. Through a diverse range of innovative programs, it creates opportunities for individuals of all ages, fostering personal growth and a stronger community.
Role Description
In this role, you will deliver high-quality goalkeeper coaching at our Girls Emerging Talent Centre, the role involves delivering weekly coaching sessions, on Friday evenings, based at Harraby Community Sports Campus, Carlisle.
Key Responsibilities of the role include:
• Upholding and delivering to the purpose and mission of Carlisle United FC Community Trust.
• Delivering a structured and high-quality weekly coaching and enrichment programme for all participants involved across the Girls Emerging Talent Centre.
• Create a learning environment that is inspiring, dynamic, challenging and educational.
• Add to the production of our ongoing coaching resource bank and planning weekly session plans to a high standard.
• Developing the quality of Carlisle United Community Sports Trust's Girls Emerging Talent Centre.
• Maintaining administrative records for all sessions and providing player reviews twice during each Girls Emerging Talent Centre season.
• Ensuring safety for all participants by undertaking health and safety checks before each session and adopting the Trust's safeguarding procedures.
• Completing all other tasks as required by Carlisle United FC Community Trust's senior management team and the Centre Manager and Player Development Lead
• Keep own knowledge up to date by attending relevant training events.
Minimum Qualifications:
• UEFA C / FA level 2 qualification in goalkeeper coaching
• FA Safeguarding Certificate.
• FA First Aid in Football Certificate.
• If appointed, a DBS check will be completed.
Desirable Qualifications:
• UEFA C qualification in football coaching
• Experience of working in the female development pathway.
Minimum Essential Requirements and Experience:
• A passion for working within the female game or with children and young people.
• Ability to work effectively within a team, understanding roles and responsibilities within the setting.
• Ability to build effective working relationships with children, young people, parents/carers and colleagues.
• To be a positive role model to participants, promoting a positive ethos.
• Ability to lead a structured coaching programme that targets individual player development.
• Charismatic individual who brings life and energy to their delivery.
• Knowledge of relevant policies, procedures and codes of practice.
• Customer care - listen and respond to customer needs and concerns.
• Valuing diversity – Listen, support and monitor the diverse contributions made to service development without prejudice. Challenge behaviours and processes which do not positively advance the diverse agenda, whilst being prepared to accept feedback about our own behaviour. Understanding how valuing diversity can improve our ability to deliver better services and reduce disadvantage.
• Self-motivated and the ability to work on own initiative.
• Good communication skills, including written, telephone and interpersonal skills.
• Good time management skills.
• Attitude to continuously develop both self, the programme and the organisation.
• Commitment to undergo regular CPD.
• Competent use of IT and IT-based systems