Tutor - The England Football Family (Casual Contract)

Organisation: The Football Association
Salary: Competitive
Location: England
Contract type: Fixed Term (Part time)
Closing date: 18 October 2026
Job Description: Ready to make a real difference to grassroots football?

The FA is excited to be recruiting Tutors to join our casual workforce and help make a real difference to grassroots football. In this role, you'll deliver newly created learning and development to potential, new and young club and league committee volunteers, helping them build the skills, knowledge and confidence they need to support strong, sustainable clubs and leagues that thrive.

We're recruiting seven Tutors across four key regions, with applicants able to select their preferred area as part of the application process:

Northumberland FA
Liverpool FA & Manchester FA
London FA & Hertfordshire FA
Birmingham FA & Staffordshire FA

What will you do?

Course Delivery:
Facilitate and deliver FA's England Football Family branded volunteer learning and development via 4 modules through face-to-face courses.

- Club Maker
- League Maker
- Run Football Club Edition
- Run Football League Edition

Volunteer Engagement:
Create an inclusive, welcoming learning environment tailored to the diverse needs of volunteers who support the clubs and leagues to thrive.

Assessment & Feedback:
Support, observe, and evaluate learners against the module learning outcomes, providing constructive feedback to guide their development and enjoyment in volunteering in grassroots football.

Quality Assurance:
Maintain the highest standards of course delivery, ensuring compliance with FA safeguarding regulations and internal quality assurance metrics.

Administrative Diligence:
Accurately log learner attendance and provide relevant feedback to County FA staff on potential next steps for attendees, both for potential future relevant learning or opportunities to volunteer in the game.

Continuous Professional Development (CPD)
Attend training days to ensure understanding of module content and relevance to The FA's Volunteering Game Plan.

Other:
Executes additional tasks as required to meet the FA's changing priorities.
Comply with all company policies and procedures to ensure the highest standards of health, safety and well-being can be maintained.
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.

What You'll Need?

Essential for the role:

Communication & Active Listening: Clear spoken and written delivery to explain information simply, combined with listening to learner feedback and assessing understanding.
Adaptability: The ability to modify delivery methods, pace, and examples to suit individual learning styles and volunteer needs.
Patience & Empathy: A calm, encouraging demeanour to build trust, reduce learner anxiety, and support volunteer learners.
Organisation & session planning: Skill in structuring learning, managing session time effectively.
Practical experience of delivering learning and development in person.
Demonstrate a working knowledge of inclusion, equality, anti–discrimination and safeguarding.

Beneficial to have:

Knowledge of The FA's Grassroots Football Strategy.
Knowledge of The FA's volunteering priorities.
Experience of supporting and developing volunteers in sport.

Important dates

To help you plan ahead, we're pleased to confirm the key dates for the recruitment and onboarding process upfront:

Application closing date: Sunday 18 October at 23:59
Interview: Thursday 12 November, Loughborough
Training for successful applicants in the 4 modules: 2 and 3 December, Birmingham (travel and accommodation will be provided)
Please ensure you are available for the interview and training dates before submitting your application.

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 committed to ensuring everyone can flourish in their roles, and by doing this, we offer top-of-the-range facilities across two core business locations. We have unique office spaces under the arch of the iconic Wembley National Stadium, which is the home of English football. We are also delighted to have a world-class Elite Performance Centre, St. George's Park in Staffordshire, which is an exceptional setting to develop and inspire high-performing England teams and leaders.

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/tutor---the-england-football-family-casual-contract-1168-variable/3260/description/

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Tutor - The England Football Family (Casual Contract)