Primary Education Coach

Organisation: Gloucester Rugby
Salary: £24-26K
Location: Kingsholm, Gloucester
Contract type: Fixed Term (Full time)
Closing date: 4 July 2025
Job Description: Do you care about others? Are you passionate about the power of sports to positively change lives? We seek dedicated individuals eager to enhance both the impact of our work and their own personal growth.

About the Foundation
Gloucester Rugby Charitable Foundation is the charitable arm of Gloucester Rugby, dedicated to leveraging the power of rugby to drive meaningful change in our community. Our vision is simple: imagine a community where the Gloucester Rugby Charitable Foundation serves as a catalyst for positive transformation, creating lasting social impact through a variety of rugby-related initiatives. These include youth development programmes, health and wellness campaigns, educational workshops, and inclusive sports opportunities. By promoting the core values of rugby—teamwork, respect, enjoyment, discipline, and sportsmanship—we aim to inspire and empower individuals of all ages and backgrounds, fostering a stronger, healthier, and more cohesive community.

About the Job
Gloucester Rugby Charitable Foundation provides several education and wellbeing intervention programmes that use the power of Rugby to break down barriers and to positively change people’s lives. The Primary Education Coach will be fundamental to achieving this mission through providing excellent leadership and delivery skills for a range of programmes in educational settings.

You will deliver and develop our programmes, whilst supporting the development of new projects aimed at engaging key stage 1 and 2 students. You will be key in delivering high quality lessons and to a range of participants and work alongside a very passionate team of coaches. You will deliver engaging sport themed lessons aimed at enhancing reading, writing and numeracy skills for KS 1 and 2 students which could utilise Gloucester Rugby player content. Lessons will vary between classroom and practical games and support the broad range of learners.

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced, dynamic, and self-motivated individual with the skills and aptitude to support young people in a range of education settings who have a variety of challenges and needs.

Our Core Values
At the heart of our Foundation are the core values that we expect our staff to live and breathe. These are:

• Empathy: We care! We will never judge anybody that steps through our doors but instead will guide them, support them, and stand with them.
• Belonging: To be welcoming, kind, and compassionate, creating a safe environment where everybody, regardless of their lived experience, can belong.
• Passion: This is OUR Holm… We will be passionate about everything we do—the badge that we wear, the City and County that we represent, and the communities that we support.
• Pride: We are proud of our communities, our city, our county, and our club, and we will represent them all with honor.

Key Accountabilities
The successful candidate will be an important part of the Foundation, working closely with the Head of Programmes to deliver the Foundations ‘Changing Lives through Rugby’ strategy and to prioritise project delivery and programme innovation.
Their key job accountabilities will be:
• To undertake the necessary planning for each lesson, ensuring that teaching and coaching demonstrates progression throughout, is aligned to the national curriculum and the relevant NGB guidelines and follows the principles of long-term student development.
• To ensure that all lessons are high quality, student-centered lessons that maximise enjoyment, participation, and participant progress.
• Ensure all lessons and sessions are caring, active, purposeful, enjoyable, and safe.
• To continually monitor and evaluate all lessons/sessions, activities, and relationships with the ultimate vision of improving the quality, impact, and reputation of Gloucester Rugby Foundation.
• Work with the Head of Charitable Delivery and Head of Community Rugby by providing reports, data and case studies in a timely manner.
• To work closely with the Foundation Primary Education Lead and Head of Charitable Delivery to deliver the Foundations strategy and to prioritise project ideas and programme innovations.
• To support the delivery across other education, participation and wellbeing programmes to ensure the delivery of the initiatives achieve the relevant outcomes.
This role may include community-based delivery, match day events, festivals, and other programmes. It will also require working some evenings and weekends as needed.

This job description is intended as a guide to the main responsibilities and is not meant to restrict any individual in performing other duties as required by the Company.

Monitoring and Evaluation
Our commitment to accurate monitoring and evaluation is crucial for ensuring the effectiveness and continuous improvement of our programmes. As an outcomes-driven organisation, we rely on precise data to make informed decisions that maximise our social impact. We expect our employees to adopt rigorous techniques and best practices to ensure the validity of our results, enabling us to uphold our mission of driving positive change through rugby-related initiatives.

Safeguarding
Gloucester Rugby Charitable Foundation is committed to ensuring that everyone involved in sport and physical activity—whether a volunteer, participant, spectator, or elite athlete—should never have to worry about abuse or harassment.

Qualifications, Experience & Knowledge
Essential
• Experience in a primary school setting or similar organisation e.g youth support
• Experience of delivering high quality classroom lessons
• Experience of working with under-represented groups of people in education or sport settings
• Experience of working with and supporting vulnerable people
• Excellent organisation, time management and communication skills
• Strong problem-solving skills and a positive ‘can do’ attitude.
• An enthusiastic and committed individual who will ‘go the extra mile’ to deliver results
Desirable
• Educated to a PGCE or equivalent level.
• Mental Health First Aider training
• Trauma informed training
• Experience of working with local agencies in Education
• Educated to ‘A’ level standard or equivalent qualifications/experienced
• A passion for sport and an understanding of wider issues relating to sport, health and education
• Experience of delivering high quality sports-based lessons

Minimum Standards
Outside of the essential requirements for the role, we must comply with the minimum standards set by our governing bodies. All employees must meet these standards when working for us and we will provide the necessary training where required.

• *England Ruby Coaching Award (ERCA or Level 2 equivalent)
• *First Aid certification
• *Safeguarding Qualification
• *Current DBS
• *RFU’s Minimum Standards (In Touch, Head Case, etc.)
• Current Driving License with no more than six points
• Access to a vehicle

*If you do not meet this requirement, we can provide the training, but we would expect you to be compliant within six months.
How to apply: Please send a covering email and CV to recruitment@gloucesterrugby.co.uk