Tutor - The England Football Family (Casual Contract)

Job description

Ready to make a real difference to grassroots football?

The FA is excited to be recruiting Tutors to join our casual workforce and help make a real difference to grassroots football. In this role, you'll deliver newly created learning and development to potential, new and young club and league committee volunteers, helping them build the skills, knowledge and confidence they need to support strong, sustainable clubs and leagues that thrive.

We're recruiting seven Tutors across four key regions, with applicants able to select their preferred area as part of the application process:

• Northumberland FA
• Liverpool FA & Manchester FA
• London FA & Hertfordshire FA
• Birmingham FA & Staffordshire FA

What will you do?

Course Delivery:

• Facilitate and deliver FA's England Football Family branded volunteer learning and development via 4 modules through face-to-face courses.
• Club Maker
• League Maker
• Run Football Club Edition
• Run Football League Edition

Volunteer Engagement:

• Create an inclusive, welcoming learning environment tailored to the diverse needs of volunteers who support the clubs and leagues to thrive.

Assessment & Feedback:

• Support, observe, and evaluate learners against the module learning outcomes, providing constructive feedback to guide their development and enjoyment in volunteering in grassroots football.

Quality Assurance:

• Maintain the highest standards of course delivery, ensuring compliance with FA safeguarding regulations and internal quality assurance metrics.

Administrative Diligence:

• Accurately log learner attendance and provide relevant feedback to County FA staff on potential next steps for attendees, both for potential future relevant learning or opportunities to volunteer in the game.

Continuous Professional Development (CPD)

• Attend training days to ensure understanding of module content and relevance to The FA's Volunteering Game Plan.

Other:

• Executes additional tasks as required to meet the FA's changing priorities.
• Comply with all company policies and procedures to ensure the highest standards of health, safety and well-being can be maintained.
• As part of The FA's commitment to ensuring a safe environment for everyone in football, successful candidates will be required to complete a DBS check. The level of the check required will be based on the activity of the specific job role. Casual work is conditional upon receipt of a satisfactory DBS check result, which will be fairly considered on a case-by-case basis, in line with legislation and government guidance.

What You'll Need?

Essential for the role :

• Communication & Active Listening: Clear spoken and written delivery to explain information simply, combined with listening to learner feedback and assessing understanding.
• Adaptability: The ability to modify delivery methods, pace, and examples to suit individual learning styles and volunteer needs.
• Patience & Empathy: A calm, encouraging demeanour to build trust, reduce learner anxiety, and support volunteer learners.
• Organisation & session planning: Skill in structuring learning, managing session time effectively.
• Practical experience of delivering learning and development in person.
• Demonstrate a working knowledge of inclusion, equality, anti-discrimination and safeguarding.

Beneficial to have:

• Knowledge of The FA's Grassroots Football Strategy.
• Knowledge of The FA's volunteering priorities.
• Experience of supporting and developing volunteers in sport.

Important dates

To help you plan ahead, we're pleased to confirm the key dates for the recruitment and onboarding process upfront:

• Application closing date: Sunday 18 October at 23:59
• Interview: Thursday 12 November, Loughborough
• Training for successful applicants in the 4 modules: 2 and 3 December, Birmingham (travel and accommodation will be provided)

Please ensure you are available for the interview and training dates before submitting your application.

What's in it for you?

We pride ourselves on offering a competitive rate of pay as well as great opportunities to develop and grow in your role.

We are committed to ensuring everyone can flourish in their roles, and by doing this, we offer top-of-the-range facilities across two core business locations. We have unique office spaces under the arch of the iconic Wembley National Stadium, which is the home of English football. We are also delighted to have a world-class Elite Performance Centre, St. George's Park in Staffordshire, which is an exceptional setting to develop and inspire high-performing England teams and leaders.

We are a diverse workplace, aspiring to represent football across the country. The Football Association actively promotes inclusion and diversity, encouraging you to be the best version of yourself at work.

We welcome applications from everyone and are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. If you have any particular requirements in respect of the recruitment or interview process, please mention this during your application.

As part of The FA's commitment to ensuring a safe environment for everyone in football, successful candidates will be required to complete a DBS check. The level of the check required will be based on the activity of the specific job role. Casual work is conditional upon receipt of a satisfactory DBS check result, which will be fairly considered on a case-by-case basis, in line with legislation and government guidance

Documents

• TEFF Tutor applicant summary sept 26 (1).pdf (0.51 MB)

ABOUT US

The Football Association [The FA] is the not-for-profit governing body of football in England. It is responsible for promoting and developing every level of the game, from grassroots through to the professional game, and generates significant revenue to support investment into English football each year.

The FA oversees England international teams across men's, women's, youth and disability football, as well as running the National League System and FA Competitions including the Emirates FA Cup, and the Adobe Women's FA Cup, and the world-class facilities of Wembley Stadium and St. George's Park, all with a purpose to inspire positive change through football.

Our game can tackle some of society's core challenges. It can bring communities together, nationally and locally. It can be a platform for inclusion, ensuring there is a place for all. It can get people active and promote wellbeing often at a time when we need it most. With UEFA EURO 2028 - hosted in the UK and Ireland - on the horizon, we have an incredible opportunity to transform football across the country.

Now is the time to inspire positive change.

We currently work within a hybrid working model whereby the expectation is to work from your contractual location for part of the week, and as and when required by the team. The remaining days can be worked remotely. We will continue to monitor this model, and it may be adjusted in future if deemed necessary.

Your contract with The FA will specify a fixed location of Wembley Stadium or St. George's Park unless the role is advertised as a homebased contract. The contractual location of this role can be found at the top of this advert on our FA vacancy page.

GROUP STRATEGY

WE HAVE MOVED FOOTBALL FORWARD.

From 2020 - 2024, we have - in collaboration with our key partners - been able to deliver meaningful change across the game.

From winning our first major tournament in over 50 years to delivering thousands of high-quality pitches to the grassroots game.

BUT WE CAN'T STOP NOW - AND WE WON'T.

This new strategy is about doubling down. Our game can tackle some of society's core challenges. It can bring communities together, nationally and locally.

It can be a platform for inclusion, ensuring there is a place for all. It can get people active and promote wellbeing often at a time when we need it most.

With UEFA EURO 2028 - hosted in the UK and Ireland - on the horizon, we have an incredible opportunity to transform football across the country.

NOW IS THE TIME TO INSPIRE POSITIVE CHANGE.

Our ultimate purpose is to 'Inspire positive change through football' - everything we do ultimately ladders up to this end goal.

The 2024-2028 strategy focuses on tackling four long-term strategic challenges that will fulfil this purpose and drive real change across the game, our 'Game Changer' objectives.

Underpinning these Game Changers are then four activities and approaches that will enable us to meet challenges head on, our 'Drivers'.

EDI STRATEGY

Our equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) strategy forms an integral part of our long-term commitment to using our influence across English football to create a game free from discrimination.

A GAME FREE FROM DISCRIMINATION

Our 2024 - 2028 strategy outlines three fundamental pillars for delivering a game free from discrimination - Boosting Representation, Driving Inclusion and Tackling Discrimination.

These pillars ensure that our work uniting communities, improving lives, and inspiring positive change on and off the pitch will remain a core priority for English football for years to come.

We are a diverse workplace, aspiring to represent football across the country. The FA actively promotes inclusion and diversity, encouraging you to be the best version of yourself at work.

We welcome applications from everyone and are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. If you have any particular requirements in respect of the recruitment or interview process, please mention this during your application.

As part of The FA's commitment to ensuring a safe environment for everyone in football, every employee will be required to complete a DBS check. The level of the check required will be based on the activity of the specific job role and in line with legislation and government guidance.

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