Job Description

Job Opportunity: Academy Head Coach

Location:

Willerby Grove (with potential travel across college sites)

Contract:

Full-time (37 hours/week, some evenings/weekends)

Salary:

32,776

Are you a passionate and experienced coach ready to lead the next generation of student-athletes?

East Durham College is seeking an ambitious and driven

Academy Head Coach

to lead our sport academies across multiple disciplines. This is an exciting opportunity to combine your coaching expertise with leadership, development, and partnership-building responsibilities in a thriving educational setting.

Key Responsibilities:

Lead, manage and grow the college's sport academies across all disciplines. Coordinate coaching programmes that support both athletic performance and academic success. Manage a team of academy coaches. Forge partnerships with sports clubs, schools, and community organisations. Promote student recruitment locally and regionally. Monitor and report on performance using tools such as GPS trackers and VEO cameras. Deliver cross-college enrichment and support student progression.

We're Looking For:

A minimum Level 3 Coaching Qualification. Experience in leadership, sports coaching, and working with young athletes. Knowledge of performance analysis tools and sports tracking software. Strong organisational and communication skills. A proactive and professional attitude with a genuine passion for sport. A full UK driving licence or access to transport is desirable.

The College is home to a genuine and supportive community of students and staff - we believe you won't find a more supportive and friendlier college.


And that support leads to some great results. A high proportion of our students progress successfully into further or higher education, apprenticeships or employment.


Students at East Durham College also develop their confidence, self-esteem and work-related skills - developing good employability skills and enhance their future opportunities.


We also have a strong focus on helping students to make a positive contribution to their communities through the community project aspect of our exciting tutorial programme. The work of our students and our Students' Union also helps a wide range of charities and community action projects. In fact, our 14-16 Engage provision was shortlisted for the 2020 Tes FE Awards in the Contribution to the Local Community Award category.


We have a key focus on supporting students in their journey on to employment or further forms of education and training, building upon the positive and life-changing experience of studying at East Durham College.