Casual Coach - Grimsby Town Foundation

To be able to deliver this role, there are skills and experiences we are looking for are: 

Essential

• Experience of delivering activity in a wide range of environments, including schools, club and community settings.
• Ability to inspire, motivate and encourage people.
• Ability to adapt sessions appropriately dependent on the needs of participants.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• The ability to communicate with people at all levels.
• Ability to contribute to work as part of a team, also being able to work independently and on own initiative.
• Effective communication skills.
• Excellent time keeping skills.
• Commitment to continuous professional development and willingness to undertake training where necessary.
• Confident with a high degree of motivation.
• Commitment to equal opportunities.

Desirable

• A minimum of one year experience within a related role.
• Working knowledge or Microsoft office including Outlook, Word and Excel.
• Excellent planning and organisational skills
• Ability to plan and deliver progressive, developmental and educational activities.
• Demonstrate exceptional organisational and planning skills
• A flexible attitude to working, willing to work evenings and weekends.
• Ability to travel independently.
• Ability to drive or working towards driving.
• Good understanding of Child Protection, Child Development, Health and Safety and Sports Equity principles, policies and procedures.

The Grimsby Town Foundation was founded in 1986 as GTSET but a recent re-branding marks the start of a new approach.  The Foundation aims to inspire, engage and include everyone in our community to lead more active, healthier and happier lives.  This role is a crucial one in achieving that.

There is nothing bigger and nothing more powerful in uniting so many people — through purpose, passion and pride — than a football club. It’s people’s identity. This is the power of the badge that means that the Foundation can play a crucial role in supporting our community.  By working in partnership with others, we can help them access hard to reach communities and demographics and deliver real change for North-East Lincolnshire and beyond.  This role will lead, manage and develop projects that are designed to do just that and to maintain the networks that will support them.

B Corporation

Alongside the Club, the Foundation is currently working towards B Corp Certification. B Corp Certification is a designation that a business is meeting high standards of verified performance, accountability, and transparency on factors from employee benefits and charitable giving to supply chain practices and input materials. To achieve certification, a company must: 

• Demonstrate high social and environmental performance by achieving a B Impact Assessment score of 80.
• Make a legal commitment by changing their corporate governance structure to be accountable to all stakeholders, not just shareholders, and achieve benefit corporation status.
• Exhibit transparency by allowing information about their performance measured against B Lab’s standards to be publicly available on their B Corp profile on B Lab’s website. 

B Corp Certification is holistic, not exclusively focused on a single social or environmental issue. And the process to achieve and maintain certification is rigorous and requires engaging teams and departments across the whole organisation. All employees are expected to commit to the journey of achieving B Corporation Status.

Safeguarding Statement

Grimsby Town Foundation is committed to safeguarding the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and Volunteers to endorse this commitment. This post requires an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service Check (DBS) as such it is exempt from Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (1974). Therefore, all convictions including spent convictions that have not been subject to filtering by the DBS should be declared. Relevant information and / or documents will be distributed as part of the recruitment process.

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

Grimsby Town Foundation’s commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion is to confront and eliminate discrimination whether by reason of age, gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, marital status or civil partnership, nationality, ethnicity (race), religion or belief, 

ability or disability, pregnancy or maternity and to encourage equal opportunities (Protected Characteristics, Equality Act 2010).

Employees of Grimsby Town Foundation must ensure a positive commitment towards equality, diversity and inclusion by treating others fairly and not committing any form of direct or indirect discrimination, victimisation or harassment of any description and to promote positive working relationships between all internal and external stakeholders.