Academy Sports Coach

Provide expert sports tuition in an immersive environment.

In this role you’ll play a direct role in fostering young people’s development across technical, tactical, physical, and psycho‑social areas. You’ll get exposure to various age groups and skill levels, building leadership and group management skills. You’ll benefit from professional development and skill growth while developing transferable skills that enhance future career prospects. Working in a residential multicultural environment adds unique experience, and offers you the chance to participate in evening events, excursions, mealtime supervision, and welfare duties, providing well‑rounded pastoral care.

Main roles and accountability:

• As a Sports Coach you deliver the agreed programme with the Head Coach, designing progressive sessions tailored to individual student needs and adaptable to your expertise.
• You conduct sessions in a proactive, focused, and engaging manner within a safe, inclusive, and tolerant environment, fostering technical, tactical, physical, and psychosocial development to support student confidence.
• All coaching communication is in English to aid language immersion.
• You prepare detailed session plans and records, providing them for Head Coach or Centre Manager review, continually assessing and managing risks for safe activity delivery.
• You assist with level testing and weekly progress reports, maintain sports equipment condition and storage, and contribute to sports workshops covering topics like mental performance, physical health, cultural awareness, leadership, and performance analysis.

Additional Duties:

• You support student well‑being and happiness, supervise mealtimes on a rota basis ensuring good behaviour and health safety.
• You assist with evening events when your sport sessions are limited or staffing is ample.
• You carry out wake‑up, bedtime, and fire safety duties ensuring students are settled and safe.
• You help with airport transfers, excursions, and check‑ins / outs to ensure smooth, safe transitions.
• You participate in daily briefings for updates and coordination, adhere to Staff Handbook and Centre Manager guidelines ensuring professionalism, and undertake any additional reasonable tasks to support team flexibility.

About you:

All staff are responsible for ensuring the smooth and efficient running of the centre while upholding the highest standards of safety and care. We look for Team Members who are friendly, positive, and approachable, who remain calm and professional in all situations. Staff must be reliable role models with high personal standards, respect confidentiality and professional boundaries, work effectively as team players contributing to a positive environment, and fully embrace the Team Orange spirit.

Job Specific Personal Specification & Qualifications:

• To be suitable for this role, you hold the minimum qualification recognised in the UK to coach independently as well as valid First Aid and Safeguarding Children certificates.
• If coaching qualifications are lower than this (i.e. level 1) you are expected to have extensive coaching experience and / or professional, semi‑professional, or national league playing experience.
• You are able to motivate children and young adults of all abilities, with strong leadership skills, a hardworking nature, enthusiasm, friendliness, and willingness to engage fully in all camp aspects.
• You communicate well with people at all levels and are flexible and adaptable to working hours.
• Ideally, your experience includes coaching children or young people in residential or summer camp settings, along with pastoral or welfare background.

To Apply:

All staff must be over the age of 18 and must have completed secondary school / college at least one year prior to joining us. This safeguarding measure is in place to protect both our students and our staff. Staff must be medically fit for their role; where necessary, reasonable adjustments will be discussed and made.

Are you enthusiastic about working with young people, committed to safeguarding, a strong team player, flexible about residential hours, appropriately qualified for your chosen role, and excited by a lively – and at times demanding – international summer school environment?

Please take a moment to read our Safer Recruitment Policy before you apply. It explains how we handle and retain recruitment records (including how long we keep applicant information). You can find it on our Policies and Procedures page. All staff must pass employment checks, including confirmation that they are not barred from working with children. It is a criminal offence for any person who is barred from working with children to attempt to apply for a position with us. Working with Exsportise involves direct contact with vulnerable children and is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.