Coach Developer ( 2 Positions Available)

Organisation: British Gymnastics
Salary: £37,299 to £39,371.00 ( Dependant upon experience)
Location: Home Based with National Travel as required
Contract type: Permanent (Full time)
Closing date: 30 June 2025
Interview date: 7 July 2025
Job Description: British Gymnastics has the following 2 permanent full-time posts:

Coach Developer

37 hours per week

Salary range £37,299 to £39,371.00 per annum (dependent upon experience)

39 days annual leave (including Bank Holiday and Company days) + 2 wellbeing days a year + weekly exercise and wellbeing hours.

This is a home-based role with national travel as required

Role Summary:
Fundamental to the development of gymnastics is the development of Coaches. The purpose of this role is to deliver British Gymnastics’ approach to coach learning and development practice primarily but not limited to pathway environments, aligned with the UK wide strategic approach for gymnastics coach development and wider learning and development strategic plan.
Specifically to:
• Support coaches with their coaching practice
• Bring coaches together to generate ideas around real-life problems, challenges and opportunities from their coaching environments.
• Gather insight to inform current and future coach support interventions and interactions ensuring British Gymnastics’ support of coaches evolves and is based on community and coach needs
• Deliver coach education products and services and support contract for services tutors/assessors/IQAs
• Deliver coach support and development for community participation and pathway coaches, helping them reach their personal and professional goals, in turn supporting athletes to achieve their potential.
Main Areas of Responsibility:
1.Situated support of coaches
• Working with internal and external colleagues and partners to identify appropriate coaches who want and need support in relevant environments
• Co-create individual development plans with coaches and clarify goals for developmental and supportive work
• Observe coach actions & behaviours in practice, working together and providing feedback
• Help coaches understand how their existing resources inform and impact reasoning for actions and behaviours and support them to continuously seek improvements and development.

The role holder will be required to demonstrate a methodical and meticulous approach to their work in line with the CIMSPA National Standard for Coach Developers, balancing the need for a solid and consistent rolling programme that supports the needs of all communities (disciplines, departments and stakeholder groups), with insight driven evolution and change management skills;
To be successful the role holder will require:
• Gymnastics coaching Qualification (level 2 or above, or recognised equivalent)
• Evidence of Gymnastics tutor/assessor/IQA training or recognised equivalent
• An understanding of coach development processes and practices
• Learning and Development frameworks and platforms
• A commitment to developing knowledge of gymnastics, coaching programmes, skills and practice
• A commitment to understanding of quality assurance systems and processes.

This role requires the holder to lead and manage critical relationships across the community. Initially, the role does not require direct line management of others though matrix management, It will require the holder to undertake delivery and supervisory activities in support of coaches.

There will be a requirement to proactively engage with the wider workforce to deliver coach education courses, manage quality assurance and exchange information and ideas; and a requirement to develop effective working relationships with a range of colleagues and key stakeholders internally and externally.
This role requires the holder to plan for and monitor a large national learning and development programme
• A DBS with barred list will be required for this post

Please refer to our Careers page and the Role Profile for further information;
How to apply: For further details and how to apply, please visit our careers page; https://www.british-gymnastics.org/gymnastics-careers