Vacancy description
Key Information
- Division:Grassroots Football
- Location:Variable
- Vacancy Type:Casual Contract
- Closing Date:19 July 2026
Set the bar for greatness...
The FA are seeking to appoint several FA Licensed Coach Developers (Education & School Sport) to serve as an approved deliverer of FA Accredited Teacher CPD learning packages. This role focuses on providing high-quality training and support to staff delivering Physical Education, both Secondary and Primary, ensuring they meet the required professional standards and pedagogical benchmarks.
- London – Covers London FA, Middlesex FA, and Essex FA.
- South East – Covers Kent FA, Surrey FA, Sussex FA, and Hampshire FA
- South Central – Covers Berkshire & Buckinghamshire FA, Oxfordshire FA, Bedfordshire FA, and Hertfordshire FA.
- East – Covers Norfolk FA, Suffolk FA, Cambridgeshire FA, and Huntingdonshire FA.
- South West – Covers Cornwall FA, Devon FA, Dorset FA, Somerset FA, Wiltshire FA, and Gloucestershire FA.
- Midlands – Covers Birmingham FA, Herefordshire FA, Shropshire FA, Staffordshire FA, Worcestershire FA, Derbyshire FA, Leicestershire & Rutland FA, Lincolnshire FA, Northamptonshire FA, and Nottinghamshire FA.
- North West – Covers Cheshire FA, Cumberland FA, Lancashire FA, Liverpool FA, Manchester FA, and Westmorland FA.
- Yorkshire & North East – Covers Durham FA, East Riding FA, North Riding FA, Northumberland FA, Sheffield & Hallamshire FA, and West Riding FA.
What will you do?
- Delivery: Plan and lead face-to-face workshops as part of The FA Accredited Teacher CPD learning package for school-based staff, ensuring all delivery aligns with the required standards outlined by The FA.
- Inclusion: Champion inclusive practice and widen participation within schools and education pathways, supporting underrepresented groups and priority communities.
- Data Management & Reporting: Systematically capture and report delivery data to internal stakeholders to track impact and engagement.
- Strategic Subject Knowledge: Proactively maintain an expert-level understanding of the Secondary Physical Education landscape through continuous professional development and The FA onboarding and training programme.
- Compliance & Quality Assurance: Ensure all qualifications, training, and experience remain current, including in-date Emergency First Aid in Football, Safeguarding (Children and Adults), and valid DBS certification.
- Professional Accreditation: Maintain FA Coach Developer License.
- 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:
- Hold Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) or Qualified Teacher Learning and Skills (QTLS).
- Minimum Level 2 in Coaching Football or UEFA C Licence.
- Valid FA Introduction to First Aid in Football certification.
- Completion of FA Safeguarding Children and Safeguarding Adults courses.
- Have experience delivering and/or supporting Physical Education within an educational setting.
- Complete / or hold an FA Enhanced DBS Check or an Enhanced DBS registered with the Update Service.
Beneficial to have:
- Experience of delivering educational content to adult learners.
- Demonstrated ability to create inclusive and engaging learning environments that support diverse participants.
- Experience of delivering face-to-face professional development workshops.
- Experience of facilitating online or blended learning.
- Hold a UEFA B Licence.
Commitment to the role
This role requires a strong commitment to supporting the delivery of high-quality CPD opportunities across the region. Successful applicants will be expected to:
- Deliver approximately 5–8 face-to-face CPD events per academic year, with flexibility to increase or decrease delivery in line with programme demand.
- Maintain a flexible approach to working hours, including availability for both daytime and twilight sessions during term time, ensuring accessibility for a wide range of participants.
- Keep an up-to-date diary of availability throughout the school term to support effective planning and scheduling of delivery.
- Be willing and able to travel across the region they have applied for to meet delivery requirements.
- Attend a mandatory face-to-face training and onboarding session on Saturday 10th October at St George's Park, which is a key part of preparing you for the role.
This position is ideally suited to individuals who are organised, adaptable, and committed to providing impactful learning experiences.
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. All resources, clothing, and equipment required for delivery will be fully provided, ensuring you are well-equipped and supported to deliver sessions confidently and professionally.
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.
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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