Responsibilities:
- Understand what the current adult women's football landscape looks like within Ealing, Brent & Hounslow to help identify potential opportunities.
- Pilot sustainable programmes in identified areas to support and grow adult women's recreational football, including Walking Football, Just Play, Small Sided Football and Soccercise.
- Reference the FA Good Practice Guide on Adult Women's Recreational Football to provide ideas to shape local offers.
- Ensure that the projects and the volunteers recruited are inclusive, diverse and reflective of local communities.
- Undertake a discreet pilot focussing on engaging ‘side-line mums and carers’ in recreational football.
- Brand all delivery programmes as The FA Snickers Just Play Centres where appropriate to help with sign-posting.
- Promote the new FA Playmaker supported by BT course to encourage volunteers from all backgrounds into this programme.
- Encourage volunteers to undertake the new FA Introduction to Disability Football online course.
- Work closely with London Euro 2022 Legacy Board, The County FA’s participation team, Community Schemes and Local Authorities to ensure local synergy and strategic alignment.
- Promote activities by utilising the resources of Sport England’s This Girl Can campaign.
- Utilise key national and local partners to support the plans and actively promote new and established programmes.
- Provide the London Women’s Euro 2022 Host Legacy Board with quarterly monitoring and evaluation reports.
- Provide regular updates to the Women’s Euro 2022 Host City Legacy Group and sub-groups on progress against plans for adult recreational football activities.
- Lead the London Legacy Project sub-group, ‘Women’s Recreational Football’, recruiting group members as appropriate, providing progress updates and performance reporting against Women’s Recreational Football Programme KPIs.
For further information please head to Middlesex FA's website. The closing date for applications is midnight on Monday 21 December 2020.
