Women’s Lead Strength and Conditioning Coach

Organisation: Glamorgan County Cricket Club
Salary: £33,000-38,000
Location: Cardiff
Contract type: Fixed Term (Full time)
Closing date: 3 July 2026
Job Description: Job Title: Glamorgan County Cricket Club Women’s Lead Strength and Conditioning Coach

Location: Glamorgan County Cricket Club, Sophia Gardens. Requires regular travel around various locations in UK in season

Contract Type: Fixed term from 1st October 2026 until 31st October 2028

Interview Date: 13th/14th July 2026

Overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen at Glamorgan County Cricket Club (GCCC) for a highly motivated and enthusiastic Women’s Lead Strength and Conditioning (S&C) Coach to join our Science and Medicine Department. Reporting to GCCC’s Director of Cricket, Women’s Head of Cricket and Head of Science and Medicine. The Women’s Lead S&C will work alongside the Women’s Lead Physiotherapist to prepare the senior squad for all domestic Women’s tier 1 competitions. In addition, the Women’s Lead S&C Coach will be required to work closely with the Women’s Academy and Pathway S&C coach in the content and delivery of the corresponding programmes.

The candidates’ personal traits and characteristics for this role are essential to the success of the programme. We are seeking an individual who is highly driven, innovative, and deeply passionate about their work, with the ambition to set and uphold exceptional standards across the team. As part of a newly formed women’s professional squad, this role requires someone who can lead by example and proactively shape a high-performance environment. Someday who is continuously pushing boundaries to raising standards within the women’s professional game. The successful candidate will play a key role in elevating our physical preparation, driving excellence in profiling outcomes, to form a reputation that positions us among the leading Tier 1 teams in England and Wales.

The successful candidate will work within a wider S&M team including a sports doctor, physiotherapists, nutritionists, performance psychologist and clinical psychologists. Additionally, they shall liaise with the England Cricket Board (ECB) S&C coaches regarding support and management of centrally contracted England players and those involved in any other international squads. Furthermore, they will deliver on comprehensive physical preparation programmes, based on sound S&C principles to both developing and senior athletes. Experience working within a team environment with elite or high-performance teams is essential. Previous experience working in cricket is not required.

The post holder will play an active role in maintaining a safe, inclusive, and positive environment for all players. This includes adhering to Glamorgan’s safeguarding policies and promoting safe working practices.

Main Duties

- Lead on the design, develop and delivery of S&C programmes for Glamorgan contracted players.
- Work collaboratively with Glamorgan’s cricket coaching staff to design and develop integrated support programmes for individual player performance and physical targets, aiming to make GCCC Women the most athletically competent squad on the tier 1 circuit
- Provide specialist S&C input - with assistance from the lead physiotherapist - to support injury reduction, rehabilitation and return to performance. Aiming to keep seasonal prevalence of injury <10%.
- Assist in the management of fast bowlers in relation to performance and injury risk
- Deliver innovative and industry defining S&C management of senior, later-stage career athletes.
- Striving for elite level results (based on ECB standards) in our main physical profiling data.
- Work with the pathway S&C coach to produce robust and physically primed young fast bowlers.
- Lead on physical performance testing and profiling of GCCC players and be accountable for uploading and storage of testing data to ECB platforms.
- Lead on player whereabouts for anti-doping through the World Anti-Doping Agency portal.
- In collaboration with the cricket coaching staff deliver appropriate physical preparation to the players on match and training days.
- Assist the Lead Physiotherapist and Clubs Head of Science and Medicine with the annual ECB Science and Medicine Audit
Attend and contribute to support staff meetings.
- Liaise with the ECB S&C team regarding support and management for England players at GCCC.
- Undertake appropriate professional development to keep informed of world’s best practice and current evidence-based research.
- Participate in intra-department led CPD presentations.
- Strive to always achieve best practice, by working together to continually improve the department and service provision.
- Working in line with safeguarding policies, and best practice in supervision, boundaries, and professional conduct.
- Maintaining accurate and timely records of any safeguarding concerns and reporting them promptly to the Club Safeguarding Lead.
- Recognising additional risks in the elite environment, supporting the creation of a culture where players and colleagues feel safe to raise concerns, and modelling behaviours consistent with a position of trust.
- To carry out any other duties that may be required by your line manager for operational requirements, and are within the successful candidate's capabilities.

Key Working Relationships
- Women’s Lead Physiotherapist
- Head of Science and Medicine
- Women’s Head Coach
- Women’s Pathway S&C
- Director of Cricket
- Women’s Head of Cricket
- Glamorgan County Cricket Clubs Safeguarding Lead

Personal Specification

Personal Attributes
- Self-driven proactiveness and initiative
- Hardworking and committed
- Flexible and adaptable
- Ability to work autonomously as well as within a team
- Excellent inter-personal skills
- Humility, honesty and integrity

Knowledge and Expertise A - Essential
- UKSCA accreditation (or equivalent)
- Graduate qualification in Sports Science and/or S&C
- Experience of performance software including: catapult, force plates and data storage software (AMS Teamwork’s,, Insight 360)
- A minimum of three years’ experience, with at least two years spent in full-time professional elite athlete/performance environment.
- Experience of working within a multi-disciplinary support team.
- Evidence of managing end stage return to play from injury of an elite athlete.
- Current basic life support training (or willing to complete).
- Computer literacy, including Microsoft Office, databases and performance analysis software (i.e. force plates)
- Full driving license.
- Right to work in the U.K.

Desirable
- Postgraduate degree in related subject.
- Experience of working in cricket.

Benefits
Free on-site parking
Complimentary tickets to Glamorgan County Cricket Club games
Pension, with employer contribution
CPD Budget
25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
Enhanced paternity/maternity policy

This job description is only a summary of the role as it currently exists and is not exhaustive or comprehensive. The responsibilities and accountabilities might differ from those outlined, and other duties, as assigned, might be part of the job.

GCCC is firmly committed to creating a safe, inclusive and positive environment for everyone involved in cricket. In line with statutory expectations, ECB and Cricket Regulator requirements, and informed by guidance from the NSPCC, the NSPCC Child Protection in Sport Unit, and the Ann Craft Trust, we follow robust safer-recruitment practices. All applicants will be subject to appropriate pre-employment checks, including self-declaration, references and, where the role requires it, an enhanced DBS check. We expect all staff, volunteers and partners to share our commitment to safeguarding children, young people and adults and adults at risk, and to uphold the highest standards of behaviour and integrity within the game.

Glamorgan Cricket welcomes applications from all backgrounds to ensure we deliver our ongoing EDI strategy and the ECB Inspiring Generations strategy to fulfil our purpose to connect communities and improve lives through cricket. We will also follow all safeguarding checks and will ensure any applicable training is completed.
How to apply: To find out how to apply, please visit https://glamorgancricket.com/about/vacancies/womens-lead-strength-conditioning-coach-glamorgan-county-cricket-club