Casual Volunteer Coordinator (Women's Pyramid)

Organisation: The Football Association
Salary: Competitive
Location: Home-Based
Contract type: Fixed Term (Part time)
Closing date: 23 August 2026
Job Description: Are you passionate about empowering volunteers and making a difference in women's football? The FA is recruiting two Casual Volunteer Coordinators to support our Women's Pyramid Network. With dedicated roles focusing on either club or league volunteers, these positions offer the opportunity to help grow, diversify and support a thriving volunteer community while working alongside teams across The FA.

Both roles are casual positions and require evening/weekend availability, as dictated by the demands of the role.

What will you do?

Raise Awareness & Boost Representation

Facilitate campaigns that engage and support the sustainable growth of female volunteers in competitive football operations.
Support Clubs & Leagues to engage and build connections with potential volunteers through education, faith and community groups.
Understand volunteering motivations to enable the effective implementation of FA volunteer development interventions.
Provide Learning & Development

Coordinate and deliver FA learning and development opportunities to volunteers and potential volunteers, including Females into Volunteering events, the FA Club Maker, Run Football - Club Edition, Run Football - League Edition and Club Leadership modules.
Support the satisfaction of volunteers by helping clubs and leagues to meet their motivations.
Build Capacity in Leagues

Support Women's Pyramid clubs and leagues to establish their volunteering needs, and create a plan to retain, recruit and reward their volunteers.
Work closely across divisions within the FA to provide wider support to the Regional Leagues and Women's National League where necessary.
Help clubs and leagues to establish a Volunteer Officer to manage their volunteer plan.
Review their volunteering culture and help them to better represent their local community.
Support Regional Leagues to comply with the League Code of Governance.
Support Clubs to comply with WNL Minimum Standards.
Additional responsibilities

Connect with, work alongside and help inform the activity of FA-funded networks to help connect a diverse range of volunteers with leagues and their clubs.
To meet the evolving needs of the FA's Equal Opportunities objectives to provide females with a greater breadth and better access to opportunities within the women's football pyramid.
Promote England Football Family membership, the Thank You Campaign and Grassroots Awards to help embed volunteer recognition.
Execute additional tasks as required in order to meet FA Group changing priorities.
Comply with all company policies and procedures to ensure the highest standards of health, safety and wellbeing can be maintained.

What You'll Need?

Essential for the role:

Demonstrable experience in:

Volunteer retention, recruitment and recognition plans.
The barriers affecting female volunteers.
Inclusion, equality, anti-discrimination and safeguarding.
The structure and partner organisations within football locality.
The Women's Football Pyramid.
Project management.
Mapping programmes to support strategic and logistical planning.

Beneficial to have:

Proven track record of Club/League development.
Relationship Building.
Good IT skills across a number of platforms.

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.

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.
How to apply: https://careers.thefa.com/jobs/vacancy/casual-volunteer-coordinator-womens-pyramid-hb0316-home-based-/3189/description/

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Casual Volunteer Coordinator (Women's Pyramid)