Founded in 1882, Tottenham Hotspur Football Club is an English Premier League Club, based in North London.
Led by the late great Bill Nicholson, the Club became the first in England to win the League and FA Cup Double in 1961, and the first in the UK to win a European Trophy two years later. Spurs has since been home to some of the game’s great entertainers, including Jimmy Greaves, Glenn Hoddle, Paul Gascoigne, David Ginola, Gareth Bale, Heung-Min Son and Harry Kane.
In April 2019, the Club opened an iconic new stadium that sits at the heart of a £1billion sport-led regeneration of North Tottenham. The stadium is the largest football club stadium in London and is a multi-use venue with the ability to host a variety of events 365 days a year, including NFL, boxing, rugby, concerts, and other major events, plus visitor attractions including Stadium Tours and the Dare Skywalk.
The stadium development scheme has to date created more than 4,000 new jobs for local people, with circa £300m pumped into the local economy each year.
Tottenham Hotspur has:
- A clear strategy to develop talent from within its Academy, showcased by a strong track record of Academy players graduating to the first-team squad.
- A £100m state-of-the-art Training Centre that supports the Club’s ambition to attract, develop and retain the best talent.
- Commercial partnerships with globally recognised brands including AIA Group Limited (AIA), one of the world’s leading providers of life insurance services, and Nike, the world’s leading sports footwear and apparel company.
- A commitment to minimizing its environmental impact across Club operations, being named as the greenest in the Premier League for the past three years. Tottenham Hotspur is a signatory of the UN Sports for Climate Action Framework, committing to halve carbon emissions by 2030 and become net zero carbon by 2040.
- An award-winning Foundation that is renowned for creating opportunities to help enhance the lives of people in its local community through education, employment, health, and social inclusion programmes.
The Club is seeking a Sport Development Head Coach to oversee the planning, development, and implementation of a comprehensive coaching program tailored specifically for Culford students.
JOB PURPOSE
Coordinate the planning, preparation, and delivery of a holistic coaching programme specific to Culford students, ensuring that all programme operations, logistics and coaching are delivered in a professional manner and adhere to all relevant Club and School policies, operating procedures, and coaching philosophies.
The post-holder will also be required to support broader Spurs Football Development programmes when directed to deliver world-class football experiences for domestic/international partners, and participants, to support the growth and development of the wider department.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Coaching
- Oversee the development and delivery of a structured coaching programme aligned with the Spurs Football Development coaching syllabus/coaching cycle, ensuring players are developed technically, tactically, physically, and socially based on the Spurs Football Development philosophy.
- Assess player development and create individual development plans (IDP) to help them reach their full potential.
- Collaborate with Culford school coaches and staff to ensure a consistent coaching philosophy across the football development programme.
- Build and maintain effective working relationships with a wide range of stakeholders including Culford staff and students.
- Facilitate regular meetings with Culford staff to ensure that priorities are clear and identified targets are being met.
- Communicate effectively with players, parents, and guardians to keep them informed about player progress and football development programme updates.
- Coordinate competitive matches and tournaments, including travel as necessary, including weekends.
- Identify talented players and report via the Club TID process.
- Identify potential students to be recommended for the Coach Development Programme (CDP) and support the recruitment process for selected students.
- Conduct a coach mentoring program for student coaches involved in the CDP.
- Support the creation of video/interactive content to support the engagement of students and recruitment/promotion of the programme.
- Research current trends of coaching and continually look for ways to develop and improve your own coaching and best practice within all Spurs Football Development programmes.
- Deliver on broader domestic/international Spurs Football Development programmes when required I.E. Group Day Experiences, Premier Days, Special Events, Internationals.
Education Partner
- Working with the Domestic Programme Manager, drive the recruitment strategy to support the growth and development of the programme within the region, to support the aspiration of attracting higher quality players each year.
- Attend all operational and strategy meetings.
- Working with Culford staff to support the development of additional commercial opportunities e.g. residential football camp programme and a regional training hub for women and girls.
- Collaborate with SFD Business Development Manager and Domestic Programme Manager to arrange varied experiences for Culford Pupils, e.g. group day experiences, stadium visits, matchday experiences (subject to availability), and CPD workshops.
- Attend and support all Culford events including open days, open evenings and similar type of events for your programme to support the recruitment of new students. This will include planning and developing resources to support the promotion of Culford School’s Football Development programmes.
Operations
- Monitor programme performance against set targets and performance indicators.
- Provide monthly programme updates and case studies to SFD strategic management group, highlighting student achievements, attendance figures/programme-related data, and programme progression.
- Attend half-termly meetings with SFD strategic management group to provide programme updates. This will include programme performance, student case-studies/data and ideas to support the strategic development and planning of Culford School’s Football Development Programme.
- Conduct generic and dynamic risk assessments as and when required.
- Monitor kit & equipment regularly throughout the year and implement processes to minimise loss and/or damage of Club property.
- Communicate with the operations team around any requirements for kit, equipment and first aid items.
- Monitor updates on the coach communication platform. Complete tasks on the platform as required.
Safeguarding
- Actively keep up to date with current and new safeguarding training and practices, including the FA’s Safeguarding Children qualification and the Keeping Children Safe in Education policies.
- Assist with all accident, incident, and risk management reporting, ensuring that all concerns are reported on my concern within 24 hours.
- Work alongside the Club Safeguarding Manager’s and Culford School’s DSLs to champion safeguarding, maintaining practices in-line with the Club’s Safeguarding policies.
- Actively promote and raise awareness of safer working practices within your programmes and modelling best practice.
General
- Understand and comply with all relevant Club and Culford School’s policies.
- Understand and comply with the Club and Culford School’s health and safety procedures.
- Adhere to the Spurs Football Development Coaching Code of Conduct.
- Promote, adhere to, and implement the Club’s Equality & Diversity Policy.
- Have an active involvement in all Spurs Football Development and Culford School’s in-service training events as required.
- Administer effective first aid and keep accurate records of any care provided to students.
- Undertake any other duties as may reasonably be expected.
- Monitor updates across all forms of communication I.E. Connect Team, WhatsApp, E-mail and to respond in a timely manner when requested. It is a requirement for all coaches to complete tasks on the platform as required.
PERSON SPECIFICATION
- Values & respects others, builds relationships, collaborates, and works well within a team environment.
- Generate innovative ideas and strive to deliver the highest standard of service as possible.
- Alert – attentive and observant, able to make decisions quickly and adapting to situations.
- Proactive – think ahead rather than simply reacting in the moment.
- Able to work independently, showing initiative, taking responsibility, and thinking logically.
- Reliable – be able to commit to scheduled programmes and to be punctual.
- Passionate - taking great pride and enthusiasm in your work.
- Fantastic personal skills – good communicator: friendly, approachable, positive attitude.
SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
Essential
- Minimum UEFA B License (or working towards)
- Level 2 FA Emergency First Aid in Football (EFAiF) Qualification
- FA Safeguarding Children Qualification
- Previous experience working with secondary school children and/or academy youth development phase
Desired
- UEFA A License
- FA Youth Award
- FA Advanced Youth Award (or working towards)
- FA Talent ID Level 2
- Experience of working within the women's and girls game.
Safeguarding is fundamental to the success in all that we do. Successful candidates are to be reminded they would be subject to various background, DBS and reference checks for this role.
Tottenham Hotspur Football Club welcomes applications from anyone regardless of age, disability, race, or ethnic and national origins, religion or belief, or sexual orientation.
