School Liaison Officer

Organisation: Kinetic Foundation
Salary: Dependent upon experience
Location: Croydon or Bromley
Contract type: Fixed Term
Closing date: 30 June 2025
Interview date: 1 July 2025
Job Description: About Kinetic Foundation

The Kinetic Foundation is an innovative London-based football and education charity which helps young people who reside in the most deprived areas of the UK, are from low-income households and/or from historically marginalised ethnic backgrounds to stay in education through their passion for football. We empower young people to successfully transition into employment, training, university, or the professional game, resulting in increased workforce participation, reduced social inequalities, and greater opportunities for lifelong success.

Our Vision: Young peoples’ outcomes are not disproportionately affected by their social and demographic background.

Our Mission: Our mission is to use football to engage and inspire young people, so that they are empowered to complete post-16 education and achieve their full potential on and off the pitch.

Kinetic engage some of the hardest to reach young people through football. We offer high quality, structured coaching sessions as a gateway to deliver support to young people in the areas of:

• Education
• Employability skills, job search skills, work experience
• Capabilities – agency, self-efficacy and resilience
• Addressing barriers including health and wellbeing and developing life skills

Since its inception, Kinetic has supported over 12,000 young people.

The Role

Kinetic Foundation (KF) is recruiting a School Player Liaison Officer and football coach in Croydon / Bromley to help with the supervision and management of students during the school day on the Kinetic Academy programme, whilst also supporting the delivery of the practical coaching syllabus.

This is an important role within the Charity as you will be responsible for promoting KF and helping the young people we work with be the best they can be. You will work under the direction of the Head of Sixth Form at the school/college and KF Academy Manager and be provided with in-house learning and support through the Head of Coaching when football coaching.

Typically, each day will involve a mix of football activities (analysis, planning, training etc) and school-based activities. The successful candidate will be ready to work with all students to promote educational, social and emotional development, some of which may have challenging behaviours. The ideal applicant will be caring, patient and understanding.

The Liaison Officer must be attentive to the unique needs of each student and be able to identify proper solutions when students encounter issues. You should have strong interpersonal skills, as you’ll be collaborating with other teachers, working with students, and talking to families. We’re committed to building brighter futures for our young people, and we’re hoping you’re excited to be part of that experience.

You will need to have a flexible approach to the successful delivery of the position and the hours of work may change to meet the needs of the programme or football situation.

Further Information
Since 2011, the Kinetic Foundation has been extremely successful in the running of a post-16 football academy and education programme. A huge part of this success is down to the engagement and active presence of the SLO within the schools. The SLO is responsible for further supporting students with academic and pastoral needs, working closely with the School and Partnerships Manager and Sixth Form team.
To help with recruitment and retention on our post-16 academy, we run community and holiday programmes to help with our student engagement. These are pivotal to our success which SLOs will have a role in participating in.
We are looking for a dynamic individual who is flexible in approach. In return, we will provide the opportunity for you to develop in the role and play a major part in our future growth.
Equal Opportunities
Kinetic Foundations values diversity and inclusion, we welcome and encourage applications from candidates with diverse backgrounds, regardless of their age, gender identify, ethnicity, religion or belief, sexuality or disability.
About You

Key responsibilities

1. Monitoring

• Complete all registers for education sessions.
• Populate and complete all registers for football sessions (training and fixtures)
• Input all extra-curricular sessions including volunteering, youth forum meetings and mentoring sessions.
• Complete the league administration required to compete in relevant competitions.
• Recording minutes played by students.
• Working together, and communicating with the wider sixth form team on attendance and punctuality of students
• Communicating with staff and parents about students where appropriate
• Reporting all safeguarding concerns
• Confirming attendance of students at fixtures/events with school
2. Practical delivery

• Follow syllabus and scheme of work.
• Support the delivery of strength and conditioning sessions.
• Ensure the highest level of delivery possible for young people.
• Registering and amending training session attendance
• Oversee the development of each young person and complete player reviews on each young person every six weeks.
• Manage teams on game day in line with Kinetic philosophy and values.
• Deliver one evening per week to recruit young people of the highest calibre possible onto Kinetic Academy programme.
• Deliver individual training to young people where their timetable allows.
• Manage game environments for the young people within the Kinetic Academy game model and structure.
• Arrange appropriate officials for fixtures.
• Being responsible for equipment and kit

3. Education Delivery
• Maintain a supportive, safe and clean classroom environment.
• Design and implement a classroom system to track student progress, and take steps to ensure academic progress is where it should be.
• Follow syllabus and scheme of work.
• Ensure the highest level of delivery possible for young people.
• Supporting students academically
• Supporting students pastorally
• Being an active presence on school site

4. Behaviour Management in school

• Co-ordinate with schools to reinforce the highest standard of behaviour, punctuality, and attendance from young people.
• Liaise with challenging young people on an individual basis as often as possible in a bid to build trust and rapport.
• Report any safeguarding or welfare issues directly into Designated Safeguarding Lead.
• Update parents on the progress of the young people quarterly in additional to the standard school procedures.
• Align, adhere, and support the school behaviour management policies.
• Promote a strategy of positive reinforcement over punishment with young people.

5. Recruitment of players

• Discuss the Kinetic offer on an individual basis with talented Year 11 footballers.
• Support sporting extra-curricular activities at KS4.
• Attend Open Evening/s at your school site for your cohort .
• Attend Parent Evenings of current cohort.
• Attend and discuss Kinetic’s offer at sixth form Taster Days
• Signpost students into additional Kinetic Foundation sessions
• Gather all required contact information on relevant pupils.
• Manage the application process of u16 players into educational programme.
6. Marketing Support

• Capture as much content (imagery etc) as possible and send onto the marketing department.
• Inform marketing department of any upcoming events.
• Liaise with the school PE department for content and promotion.
• Monitor social media channels for regular uploads and engagement.

7. Video Analysis

• Record competitive matches.
• Ensure content us uploaded to the platform.
• Upskill young people to be able to use the platform accordingly.
• Arrange video analysis meetings with young people.

8. Tasks that school may require completing

• Deliver weekly football sessions to year 10 and 11 pupils with support from Kinetic Academy students.
• Supervise students during non-classroom time and oversee additional activities.
• Identify, co-ordinate and develop volunteering opportunities for young people in the local community.
• Assist with classroom instruction and provide behavioural support and guidance to students.
• Support subject leaders with the delivery of relevant level 3 vocational qualifications. This may include up to 7 hours per week study supervision or teaching (based on knowledge and experience).
• Devise and implement a mentoring scheme for all young people enrolled at their site and potentially challenging pupils from younger year groups.
How to apply: Please send your CV with a short video (maximum 3 minutes) outlining your suitability for the role and detailing why you are interested in the role to careers@kinetic-foundation.org.uk.