Contract Football Coach

Department: Programmes
Employment Type: Contract
Location: North London
Compensation: £17.00 / hour

Description

As a Football Coach at Bloomsbury Football Foundation, you're the person who wants to support social change. You'll lead high-quality sessions for children and young people across London, working directly with players as the face of BFF on the pitch. Every session is a chance to build confidence, spark a love of the game, and show a young person what they're capable of.

You'll start with helping run some of our afterschool programmes and academy sessions, coaching ages 4-18 which run between 3pm to 8pm, Monday - Friday and weekends. You will plan and deliver sessions in-line with our curriculum, coach alongside existing Blooms coaches, working to help every young person take their game to the next level. Coaches who thrive in our contract roles will also have the opportunity to continue coaching with BFF on a full-time bases if this is a goal, delivering sessions in schools, community hubs as well as coaching club teams in the Bloomsbury Football Academy and delivering specialist inclusive football provision for refugees and asylum seekers and young people with disabilities.

And you won't do it alone. You'll have all the equipment you need, best-in-class CPD, a structured curriculum, and senior coaches in your corner, plus a tight-knit coaching community that grows together. For the coaches who thrive, there's a path to continued contract work or progress in a full-time role, which is so rare to find in grassroots football!

Bloomsbury Football Foundation is the place to build your coaching career while changing young lives.

What We're Looking For

The BFF Standard:

• Keep high standards, always. You hold yourself to a high standard without being asked. You take pride in your work, and you push for quality in everything you do.
• Take responsibility. You own your work, your decisions, and your mistakes. You work proactively, follow through, fix things when they go wrong, and bring solutions instead of just identifying challenges.
• Pursue growth consistently. You actively push to get better each day. You seek feedback, act on it, and look for opportunities to stretch yourself. You see this role as a place to build something, in yourself as much as in BFF.
• Stay calm under pressure. You stay effective when things get hard, priorities shift, or plans change. You recover from setbacks quickly and don't let pressure affect your performance or the people around you.
• Be a team player. You work well with others, and you add to the team around you. You step up when it's needed to support the end goal and you measure success by what the team achieves together.
• Remain agile. You thrive in fast-moving environments where plans evolve and priorities shift. You don't need everything to be fixed to perform at your best, and you see change as part of growth.
• Do the right thing. Especially when no one is watching. You represent BFF with warmth and professionalism in every interaction, and you take your responsibilities to the organisation and the people we serve seriously.
• Be mission-minded. You believe in what BFF is doing – not just in football, but specifically in the power of football to change young people's lives. You're here because of the mission, not just the role.