The St Johnstone Community Trust
Sports Coordinator
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Who We Are
The St Johnstone Community Trust, known as ‘Saints in the Community’, is an award-winning charity based in Perth & Kinross and powered by the reach and identity of St. Johnstone Football Club. We use sport - and football in particular - to bring people together, improve health and wellbeing, build skills and confidence, and create opportunities for people of all ages and backgrounds.
We support more than 1,500 people each year through our three pillars of Sport, Education and Wellbeing. Our programmes include grassroots and inclusive football, holiday and school provision, girls' and women's activity, disability and additional-support-needs programmes, health and wellbeing projects, and community learning and education.
We are now entering an important next chapter. We want to make our football and sports offer stronger, more visible, more inclusive and more sustainable - growing participation, developing our programmes, and creating new partnerships and income. The Sports Coordinator will be central to making that happen.
The Vacancy
- Hours: 35 hours per week, with regular evening/weekend work
- Location: Perth (with regular work at McDiarmid Park & George Street) and travel across Perth & Kinross as required.
- Salary: £29,000
- Reports to: CEO
- Responsible for: Senior Sports Delivery Officer, Sports Delivery Officer, sessional coaches, and volunteers as appropriate.
Employee Benefits
- Branded Saints in the Community uniform
- Flexible working / hybrid working
- Employee pension scheme
- 30 days’ holidays, inclusive of public holidays
- Additional half-day annual leave for birthday
- Family discounts on Trust activities
- Access to discount partner
- Training and CPD opportunities
- Access to company laptop
- Staff discount at St Johnstone FC Club Shop
- St Johnstone FC match/season tickets (dependent on availability)
Job Purpose
The Sports Coordinator plays a leading role in the development and delivery of Saints' football and wider sports programmes, with football as the clear priority. You will lead the development and growth of high-quality, inclusive opportunities with school, club, and community settings, increasing participation, supporting positive development, and strengthening community connections.
The role is approximately 70% programme management, development, and coordination and 30% hands-on delivery. You will provide management oversight and day-to-day leadership to the sports team; coordinating coaches, volunteers, resources, and delivery. You will lead programme development, identify new opportunities, and ensure existing programmes are effectively planned, staffed, promoted, monitored, and financially managed, while providing coaching and delivery support where required.
You will build strong partnerships and contribute to income-generation targets, using football and sport to promote positive behaviour, social cohesion, and wider community impact. You will also coach and deliver sessions directly when required, bringing strong football knowledge and practical coaching experience to the team.
Job Role & Responsibilities
Programme Development & Delivery
- Programme Coordination & Delivery: Lead the planning, coordination and delivery of high-quality, safe and inclusive football and multi-sport activities, including schools and early years programmes, community coaching, holiday camps, walking football and adult physical activity, girls’ and women’s football, disability football, eSports and other sports programmes. Deliver sessions directly where required, in line with Scottish FA guidance and wider best practice.
- Programme & Curriculum Development: Design structured, developmentally appropriate football session plans aligned with relevant local, national and international frameworks. Identify gaps in provision and respond to community needs by developing and improving football and multi-sport programmes in line with the Trust’s strategic priorities.
- Participation & Progression: Develop opportunities for participants to engage in football & wider sports, broadening skills and supporting sustained participation. Create appropriate pathways for young players to progress in football while balancing participation, talent development and wider community impact.
- Inclusion & Accessibility: Ensure programmes are inclusive, trauma-informed and accessible, with particular consideration given to underrepresented groups and participants with additional support needs, including SEBN.
- Events & Community Engagement: Coordinate tournaments, festivals, open days, matchday experiences and other football and multi-sport events to increase participation, community engagement and the visibility of the Trust. Develop effective ways of gathering and responding to feedback from participants and the wider community to inform future provision.
- Promotion & Communications: Support the promotion of football and multi-sport programmes through email, social media, newsletters, community events and other appropriate communication channels. Act as a key point of contact for participants and their families, responding promptly to enquiries and communications relating to sports activities, while building positive relationships.
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Team & Operational Management
- Operational & Financial Management: Lead the day-to-day operational management of sport programmes, ensuring they are well planned, appropriately resourced, financially sustainable and aligned with the Trust’s priorities. Work with the CEO to set and monitor budgets, achieve agreed participation and income targets, programme design, timetabling, customer experience and retention to support participation growth and long-term sustainability.
- Staff & Workforce Management: Line manage staff and sessional coaches, setting clear objectives and work plans, monitoring performance and supporting appraisal and development. Plan rotas and deploy staff, sessional workers and volunteers effectively across programmes. Recruit, induct and develop staff, volunteers and sessional staff, including observing coaching, sharing good practice and providing appropriate feedback and support.
- Resources & Facilities: Oversee the effective and safe use, maintenance and availability of sporting equipment and other resources, and manage bookings and relationships with venues and providers.
- Operational Support & Risk Management: Act as the first point of contact for programme staff on day-to-day operational issues. Identify and manage operational risks and contribute to the continuous improvement of systems and delivery processes to maintain safe and effective programmes.
Partnerships, Income & Community Impact
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- Positive Behaviour & Community Impact: Use football and multi-sport programmes to promote positive behaviour, social cohesion and community engagement, helping to reduce anti-social behaviour and create inclusive, safe opportunities for participants.
- Partnership Working: Build and maintain strong relationships with schools, clubs, community groups, governing bodies, sponsors and other partners to support programme development, participation and wider community impact.
- Internal Collaboration: Work across Sport, Education and Wellbeing to develop joined-up programmes that connect sport with the Trust’s wider health, wellbeing and poverty outcomes and create pathways into other Trust activities.
Monitoring, Evaluation & Performance
- Operational Reporting: Provide regular updates to colleagues, ensuring informed decision-making and effective programme oversight, including delivery, capacity, performance, income, risks, and opportunities.
- Monitoring & Evaluation: Track participation data, feedback, programme outcomes, and progress against income-generation targets; contribute to regular reporting for the senior management team, funders and stakeholders.
- Performance Improvement: Monitor programme performance against agreed KPIs, participation targets, income expectations, and capacity, taking corrective action where performance is off track and supporting continuous improvement.
Other Duties
- Compliance: Ensure all activities are delivered in line with Trust policies and procedures, including safeguarding, PVG, GDPR, equality, health and safety, insurance, and relevant governing-body requirements.
- Additional Duties: Undertake any other reasonable duties as requested by the Senior Management Team in support of the Trust’s wider objectives.
Candidate Specification
Essential
- UEFA C Licence or equivalent, or willingness to work towards this qualification (funded by the Trust).
- Safeguarding/child protection training, First Aid and PVG membership, or willingness to obtain these (funded by the Trust).
- Practical experience of planning, coordinating and personally delivering high-quality and developmentally appropriate community sport sessions.
- Experience of grassroots football or community sport, with the ability to support the development of high-quality football programmes and coaches.
- Experience of leading, supervising and developing staff, sessional workers or volunteers to deliver consistently high standards.
- Strong relationship-building and partnership-working skills with a range of partners and stakeholders.
- Experience of managing multiple programmes/projects, including managing resources, people, facilities and operational requirements.
- Experience of monitoring, evaluating and reporting on programme performance, participation, outcomes and impact.
- Strong financial and commercial awareness, with the ability to monitor budgets, manage resources and identify opportunities to improve programme sustainability.
- Strong written, verbal and presentation skills, with the ability to communicate effectively with colleagues, participants, partners and senior management.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office applications, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams and Outlook, and confident managing booking systems.
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