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You will be updated with latest job alerts via emailJob Title: Pathway Coach and State School Lead
Accountable to: Head of Talent Pathway
Contract: 2 year fixed term
Hours: minimum 40 hours per week
Salary: 24,000 per annum
Location: Taunton
Closing date: 15 September 2023
The Role
Our Academy and Pathway Team is expanding! We have an exciting and unique opportunity for a Level 2 qualified coach to join our progressive team in the position of Pathway Coach and State School Lead. This is an innovative position with the chance to transform perceptions of accessibility in cricket and make a real difference in state school children's experience.
Your main focus will be to work alongside the Head of Talent Pathway to design, implement and deliver a programme for state school pathway cricketers in Somerset. You will have overarching responsibility for the Somerset State School Programme and MCC Foundation Programme delivery. You are key to transforming perceptions about routes into professional cricket!
Some of your day-to-day duties and responsibilities include collaborating extensively with the MCC Foundation, Cricket Foundation, Clowance Trust, and Richard Huish College to maximise the programme's reach and impact; delivering across the Somerset Pathway, leading a County Age Group side and supporting EPP & Academy cricketers when appropriate; managing winter and summer training programmes; overseeing the financial aspects of the programme; ensuring a safe and inclusive environment is achieved at all times.
To be successful in this role, you'll need experience of working with pathway cricketers and/or talent development programmes, have a passion for the development of state school cricketers and have exemplary relationship and rapport building skills with the ability to inspire and positively influence people. You're a strong, empathic leader with excellent communication skills; self-reflective, with a desire for continuous improvement, you are an excellent role model who leads by example.
Please download the full job description here: Pathway Coach and State School Lead Job Description
You'll need to refer to this within your application to show how you meet the essential criteria.
Selected candidates will be invited to a first stage interview via Microsoft Teams on Tuesday 19 September, 2023.
Further shortlisted candidates will be invited to a second stage interview to be held face to face at the Cooper Associates County Ground on Monday 25 September, 2023.
If you are interested in this position, simply complete our application form below - we use fair and safe recruitment methods therefore we don't review CVs as part of our selection process. Please provide as much detail as possible in your application responses as this is how we select candidates for the next stage of the process. For more information, please read our Application Guidance.
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