Job Description
Girls Football Coaching Intern
Kinetic Foundation’s newly founded Girls Football Academy is a fast-growing and exciting project, involving a comprehensive and outstanding offer for girls across London to take part in for free. We intend to be the largest provider of Girls Football by 2026.
The foundation is looking for a Football Coaching Intern to assist the current team and help coach the next generation of talented female footballers throughout London.
This is a highly regarded position in the organisation with a key role in helping assist in the large coaching programme. You will work in a small, highly experienced coaching team; therefore, the selected candidate must demonstrate initiative and integrity.
This role will allow the successful candidate access to outstanding coach education, in depth knowledge of session planning and a foot-up on to the football coaching ladder.
The key responsibilities associated with the role are as follows:
Coaching
- Follow syllabus and scheme of work as set by the Head of Coaching.
- Support the delivery of practical football coaching and strength and conditioning sessions.
- Ensure the highest level of delivery possible for young people.
- Assist in the input to individual learning plans (ILPs) on each young person.
- Support a School Liaison Officer (SLO), specific to one of our partner Harris Federation schools.
- Assist teams on game day in line with Kinetic philosophy and values.
- Identify, co-ordinate and develop volunteering opportunities for young people in the local community.
Kinetic is an innovative charity that uses a unique community sport model to support and deliver highly quality football and volunteering opportunities to some of the most vulnerable, ignored and overlooked young people in the UK aged 14-19 years old.
We provide all Kinetic Academy scholars with UEFA qualified football coaching to develop their talent, a place in one of our partner schools, plus additional employability and life skills support.
We are one of the most recognised football organisations in the country.
Our Charitable Objectives Are
- Advance and promote community development through the promotion of volunteering.
- Provide young people with facilities, training and opportunities to participate in sport, leisure and volunteer activities.
- Advance education of young people by providing the opportunity for them to partake in education, health and vocational related training courses.
Requirements
To successfully carry out this role the individual must meet the following criteria of the job specification:
Job Specification
- Studying/completed for Sports/ Business/ Coaching Degree.
- Ability to build rapport quickly.
- Highly motivated and driven.
- Very organised.
- Good presentation skills.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Highly reliable and pro-active.
- Skilled with Microsoft Office.
- Confident working with partners at all levels of seniority.
- Experience of working with and alongside others to complete a project with a specific outcome.
- Knowledge of the sporting landscape in London.
- Experience of working with young people.
Application closing date
April 30th 2025
Start date
September 1st 2025
Duration
10 months
Salary
£500 per month expenses
How To Apply
Please send your CV with a covering letter (maximum 1 pages) outlining your suitability for the role and detailing why you are interested in the role to careers@kinetic-foundation.org.uk.
