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Community Sports Coach

 

Overview of Project
Young Elite Management is a sports management mentoring company, registered as a Community Interest Company, that will offer sports management and mentoring services (initially football but longer term the plan is to extend to other sports). These services will include identifying young talented players from communities and areas, offering opportunities to train through recommended coaching services, and also ensuring they are given effective mentoring and guidance to remain focused.

The overall company slogan and aim being ‘combining talent with guidance and opportunity’ as well as ‘Providing effective mentoring for sport enhancement’.

The Duties

We are recruiting for a professional Community Sports Coach Coordinator to maintain all community outreach activities. You will be required to represent the company and work with the management team to develop and implement initiatives that increase company visibility within the surrounding community.

 

As a sports coach, you may provide nutrition and diet plans for athletes in addition to training plans. You may provide advice on a healthy lifestyle, including what to eat, getting enough sleep and relaxation techniques. Working with professional athletes may involve performance-enhancing and personal development advice. You inspire athletes to strive for their best performance and to develop their knowledge and techniques. You explain sports psychology and sports science to inspire confidence and a belief in their abilities as an athlete. Also, you may liaise with physiotherapists and nutritionists to provide and get additional support.

 

A sports coach's role and skills can vary depending on where you work. Sports coaches work with individuals and teams at professional and amateur clubs, community sports associations, schools, colleges and universities. They may plan a recruitment drive to find new players and organise sporting events.

 

As a sports coach, your primary roles may include:

 

• Evaluate performance and provide suitable feedback, balancing criticism with positivity and motivation

• Assess strengths and weaknesses in a participant's performance and identify areas for further development
• Adapt to the needs and interests of group or individual participants
• Communicate instructions and commands using clear communication methods
• Demonstrate an activity by breaking the task down into a sequence
• Encourage participants to gain and develop skills, knowledge and techniques
• Ensure that participants train and perform to a high standard of health and safety at all times
• Inspire confidence and self-belief
• develop knowledge and understanding of fitness, injury, sports psychology, nutrition and sports science
• Conducting Outreach methods to work with athletes within the community
• Advising Athletes
• Suggesting New techniques
• Being a role model
• Offering lifestyle advice
• Organising competitions and meetings

 

 For expressions of interest, please email  enquiries@youngelitemanagement.com

 

This activity is organised externally and is not a Council role.