Bloomsbury Football Foundation
Contract Football Coach
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Department: Programmes
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.
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BFF Coaching Skills:
- Structured and creative session delivery. You plan and deliver sessions with clear objectives, good progressions, and real energy. Your sessions are consistently high quality, and players leave better than they arrived.
- Ability to adapt in the moment. You read players in real time and adjust what you're doing based on what they need. You lean into what works and learn from what doesn’t, continuously evolving your coaching practice to better serve your players.
- Authentic engagement with young people. You invest in knowing your players as individuals, their lives, their motivations, and their challenges. You create an environment where every young person feels safe, valued, and included.
- Committed to safeguarding and professional conduct. You take your safeguarding responsibilities seriously and apply BFF's policies without ambiguity. You maintain appropriate professional boundaries, and you raise concerns immediately through the right channels.
- Excellent with adults. You communicate with parents, carers, coaches, and other counterparts in a way that is warm, clear, and professional. You build relationships proactively and handle difficult conversations with empathy.
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Requirements
Essential Criteria
- FA Level 1 Coaching Qualification OR 1 year of experience working as a football coach
- Experience working with young people
- Availability to work 3pm-8pm weekdays and weekends (occasional hours across this time frame)
- Eligibility to work in the UK
- This role is subject to an Enhanced DBS check
Desirable Criteria
- FA Safeguarding for Children certificate
- FA First Aid certificate
- Working towards or in possession of a UEFA C / FA Level 2 coaching qualification
- Experience delivering community, disability, or refugee football sessions
Benefits
- Ongoing internal and external accredited CPD programme
- Best-in-class coaching resources, including session planning tools, branded Nike coaching kit and equipment, and regular video analysis of your coaching practice
- A dedicated cohort of coaches who support each other's development
- Central London base at our office in Camden Markets: sofas to relax, quiet zones for focused work and breakout areas for collaboration, and a range of snacks and refreshments as well as a dedicated coach working space kitted out with whiteboard tables, tactic boards, a coaching bookshelf, and analysis TVs.
- Local Camden Markets discounts
- Regular staff socials and football matches
- Monthly ‘Team Talk’ with pop-up catering
- Opportunity to win free tickets to Premier League, FA Cup, League Cup, and Champions League football matches
- 29 days of annual leave + bank holidays
- Cycle to work scheme
- Be part of a growing organisation making a real difference to young people's lives across London
At Bloomsbury Football Foundation
We believe that the best teams reflect the communities they serve. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace where people of all backgrounds, identities and experiences feel welcome, valued and able to do their best work. We particularly encourage applications from women and people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, who are currently underrepresented in our team. We assess every candidate on their ability, potential and values, nothing else. If you care about what we do and believe you have something to contribute, we want to hear from you.
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