Fitness Coach

Organisation: University of Cambridge Sports Service
Salary: £27,319 – £31,236 per annum
Location: Cambridge
Contract type: Permanent (Full time)
Closing date: 30 September 2025
Interview date: 8 October 2025
Job Description: We are seeking a full-time Fitness Coach to support delivery of our growing wellbeing, fitness, strength and conditioning activities. If you are passionate about training and motivating individuals and groups to achieve their training and fitness goals, this role could be for you!

You will be part of a team that:

• Plans, develops and delivers strength and conditioning (S&C) sessions to high performance athletes on TASS and UCAPP. (TASS is a national scheme that supports athletes and UCAPP is the University's own in-house high-performance programme for athletes that offers support in multiple areas, including S&C in which the role holder will be a key figure).
• Designs and carries out S&C sessions for University Sports Clubs and external teams working with a variety of sports such as fencing, rugby league, swimming, modern pentathlon, netball, etc.
• Supports individual customers and groups to achieve their fitness goals by conducting inductions, creating programmes, and delivering personal training sessions and workshops.
• Delivers fitness classes (e.g. circuits) and workshops as part of our group exercise class timetable and contributes to our active students and staff programmes.
• Contributes to the operation of the University Sports Service as a whole, supporting health and safety requirements, customer service, cleaning and maintenance needs, mentoring other staff and opening up/locking up procedures.

You should have relevant fitness/S&C qualifications: Level 2/3/4 gym instructors/personal training/S&C Trainer etc. UKSCA accreditation is desirable or be working towards this with the ability to achieve this within 12 months.

You should have experience of working with a range of individuals and groups; from those training for health reasons through to high performance athletes, and you should be just as passionate about dealing with general gym users as you are with athletes and teams.

Prospective candidates are encouraged to use the Suitability for the Role section of the application form to highlight how they meet the person specification and what skills, knowledge and experience they would bring to the role.
How to apply: Please apply online via our web recruitment system. https://www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/fitness-coach-dg47314