School Football and Tournaments Coordinator, LFC Foundation

We have an exciting opportunity for an individual to join our LFC Foundation team as a School Football and Tournaments Coordinator. This role focuses on delivering inclusive, high-quality sports events and school competitions, ensuring all pupils, including those with SEN, are supported and engaged. You'll also lead accessible grassroots activities during holiday periods and work collaboratively across the LFC Foundation to design impactful, cross-departmental events that align with organisational priorities and enhance young people's overall experience.

What will you be doing?

• Event Planning and Coordination: Plan, organise, and deliver football and multi-sport tournaments, competitions, festivals, and mini-leagues for both primary and secondary schools.
• Annual Calendar Management: Develop and manage an annual calendar of events aligned with the academic year to ensure smooth delivery and maximise school and community engagement.
• Inclusive Delivery: Design and deliver events tailored to meet the needs of a diverse range of participants, including SEN-specific formats and adaptations for underrepresented groups.
• Grassroots Activation: Support on the delivery of grassroots sport festivals during half-terms and school holiday periods to provide year-round opportunities for young people.
• Format Innovation: Introduce new and creative event formats (e.g. festival-style delivery, mixed-gender competitions, sport-for-fun models) that promote participation, inclusion, and enjoyment.
• Curriculum and Campaign Integration: Align events with school curriculum themes or key national campaigns such as Anti-Bullying Week, International Women's Day, or Mental Health Awareness Week.
• Pupil Leadership Opportunities: Facilitate opportunities for young people (e.g. school sports leaders or TY students) to support in officiating, coaching, or assisting with event delivery.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Build and maintain effective relationships with School Games Organisers, grassroots clubs, and community organisations to align provision and avoid duplication.
• External Representation: Represent the LFC Foundation at school sport partnership events, network meetings, and wider community sport forums to promote the Foundation's work and impact.
• Referral Pathways: Create links between school competitions and external opportunities, ensuring clear pathways into Foundation programmes or local sports clubs.
• Cross-Department Collaboration: Work effectively across Foundation departments and programmes such as Premier League Primary Stars, Inclusion, and Community to align activity with wider organisational goals.
• Monitoring and Evaluation: Collect feedback, participation data, and insight from events to assess quality, identify improvements, and contribute to impact reporting.
• Insight-Driven Delivery: Use school-level data (e.g. FSM, SEN status), local insight, and pupil voice to inform planning, target schools, and tailor event delivery.
• Recognition and Celebration: Coordinate pupil and school celebration activities, including certificates, awards, and good news stories to share success and increase engagement.
• Risk Management: Conduct detailed risk assessments and contingency plans to ensure safe delivery across all venues and events, with particular focus on SEN needs.
• Quality Assurance: Ensure all events reflect the Foundation's standards of professionalism, safeguarding, and inclusivity through clear planning, briefings, and debriefs.

Who are we looking for?

To be successful in this role, you will bring proven experience in planning, delivering, and evaluating school or community sports events, including tournaments and festivals. Alongside a strong understanding of football and a range of other sports, you'll be able to design inclusive and engaging formats suitable for both primary and secondary school pupils. You will have experience delivering inclusive provision, with the ability to adapt activities to meet the needs of children and young people with Special Educational Needs (SEN).

Collaboration will be essential, requiring you to work effectively across departments and with partner organisations to achieve shared objectives. You'll also have experience building and maintaining strong relationships with schools, teachers, and wider community stakeholders to ensure high-quality engagement. A solid understanding of safeguarding and child protection principles within school and community sport settings is also crucial.

Strong communication and interpersonal skills are important, enabling you to engage and motivate a diverse range of audiences including children, school staff, and external partners. You'll be highly organised, confident in managing multiple events and priorities, and able to collect, analyse, and report data to demonstrate impact and support continuous improvement. You should also be proficient in Microsoft Office and digital tools used for planning, communication, and evaluation.

A commitment to equity, diversity, and inclusion is essential, along with a passion for removing barriers to participation. You'll need to be flexible in your working approach, with willingness to work evenings, weekends, and during school holidays when required. Finally, you will be willing to travel independently to support delivery across the Liverpool City Region.

Why should you apply?

This is a Fixed-Term Contract opportunity for a period of 12 months working 35 hours per week on a 5 from 7 days basis including some weekends when required. Your main base is Anfield Sports and Community Centre, with travel across Merseyside and occasional travel within England and Wales.

Please note, this vacancy may close early if we receive a high volume of applications, so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible. To reward your hard work and commitment we offer a competitive salary, 25 days holiday (plus 8.