Spartans Community Foundation is a charity and social enterprise in North Edinburgh, focusing on community engagement and participation and delivering social impact through the power of people and sport.
Job Title Extra Time Youth & Community Coach
Responsible to Extra Time Project Lead
Liaises with All Foundation employees, customers, partners and volunteers
Location Spartans Community Foundation, Ainslie Park, 94 Pilton Drive, Edinburgh EH5 2HF
Salary Fixed Term 6-month contract at £12.60 per hour (National Living Wage)
Scottish FA Extra Time Project Outline
The Scottish FA seek to use the power of football to help support and strengthen its clubs and the communities they serve. As part of the ongoing partnership between the Scottish FA and the Scottish Government, the Scottish FA Extra Time Programme aims to provide breakfast, after school and holiday activity clubs for primary school aged children.
The programme is available to football clubs, trusts and foundations and will look to develop an understanding of how organised activities for children, and wider engagement with local support services, can improve life outcomes, particularly for those families on low incomes.
Scottish FA Extra Time Project Principles
- An increased accessibility to organised children's activities for targeted families.
- A better understanding of the role that organised children's activities can play in delivering food/tackling food insecurities.
- More parents and carers from targeted families can sustain and/or increase their working hours, and/or improve their employment circumstances, take up training, studying or facilitate respite opportunities.
- A way to measure improved mental health and wellbeing for children, parents, and carers.
- A better understanding of additional impacts and outcomes that are realised because of providing targeted families and communities with access to funded organised activities.
- Engagement with parents, carers, and communities to increase community involvement and the numbers of children and families participating in grassroots clubs and organisations.
Key Responsibilities
- To design and deliver Extra Time afterschool (x4 ASC's), Sunday Brunch Club and holiday activity club programmes for primary school aged children in North Edinburgh.
- To develop and maintain effective communication links with local schools, Head Teachers, and SFA Southeast Region members of staff plus any other relevant parties both within and out with North Edinburgh, spot and take opportunities for partnership work.
- Play a role in the development, implementation, delivery, and evaluation of the annual Extra Time Work Plan.
- The ability to motivate and engage with primary school aged children and families.
- Collect and study session plans in advance, adapting where necessary, whilst ensuring they adhere to our Extra Time Coaching Curriculum.
- Complete risk assessments and ensure provisions run within governing body coaching ratios, complying with Health & Safety policies & safeguarding procedures whilst ensuring all services are delivered in compliance with appropriate policies to protect children and vulnerable adults.
- Work closely with Extra Time Family Support Officer to measure improved mental health and wellbeing for children, parents, and carers.
- Continual liaising with other members/managers of the Foundation team to ensure consistency throughout the organisation.
- Willing to contribute to your own continued professional development by attending organised training courses and researching other appropriate development opportunities.
Essential qualification or experience
- SFA Childrens Coaching Award (minimum Level 1.3)
- IT skills including the use of MS Office and Outlook.
- Experience of working within a sporting environment.
- Significant knowledge of grassroots planning.
- Experience of planning, developing, and delivering programmes.
Additional useful experience or skills:
- Willingness to be flexible around working times/days.
- Youth Work or sports coaching experience.
- Full UK driving licence.
- Sports First Aid
- A degree or equivalent in sports development, coaching or football.
- Knowledge of the positive impacts of engaging within football and sports.
- An understanding of the Spartans Community Foundation's vision, strategy and objectives.
Key Competencies:
- Productivity - Plans work carefully, makes effective use of time available, reprioritising as necessary, consistently delivers work of high quality on time, makes timely decisions, and approaches tasks in a systematic manner.
- Adaptability - Is open to latest ideas and suggestions, suggests new and innovative ways of working, show a positive approach to change, demonstrates a flexible approach when dealing with other, and keeps calm when faced with unexpected problems.
- Taking Action - Demonstrates a keen sense of ownership for work, shows resilience when working under pressure, consistently strives to meet targets, rises to meet tough challenges, and attempts to solve problems before seeking help (adopting a can-do mindset).
- Delivering Customer Impact - Understands customer needs, responds quickly to changing customer needs and/or anticipates customer needs, identifies ways to improve customer service, takes responsibility for sorting out customer problems, and keeps customers informed of developments.
- Working with Others (internal & external) - Collaborates effectively with others, develops positive relationships with others, actively takes part in team activities, is supportive of colleagues, builds trust, and treats everyone as an individual (honours uniqueness).
- Communicates with a Presence - Is always present with others, manages personal FOE factor, listens to understand others and checks for understanding around their MAP of the world, communicates key and relevant information to others, talks with enthusiasm and confidence, and adapts communication style depending on who they are talking to.
- Contributes with Authenticity - Tries to conduct work in an ethical and fair way, acts with integrity, willing to be vulnerable and fail, to take calculated risks, speaks openly and honestly about problems and challenges, and aspires to be a positive role-model - adopts a 'big heart, small head' approach.
- Always Learning - Spots and takes opportunities to develop own skills and knowledge, evaluates the impact of actions and initiatives (e.g., composes win/learn/change reviews), takes time to self-reflect on own behaviours and effectiveness, applies new knowledge and skills to be more effective and shares own learning with colleagues.
Working Requirements
- 30 hours per week - weekend work required.
- Fixed term contract - 6 months at £12.60 per hour (National Living Wage)
- Staff development and training events as required.
Benefits
- Living Wage Employer
- Health Assured Employee Assistance Programme
- Staff uniform (Macron Kit Allowance)
- On-site parking
- Company pension scheme
- 30 days pro-rata (January to December) annual leave plus Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Years Day.
- Training and Development opportunities.
- Free access for employees' children to Football Development Department holiday and football coaching programmes.
The Foundation is an Equal Opportunities Employer, with all offers subject to references and an enhanced DBS check.
To apply, please send us a covering letter outlining why you believe you are suitable for the role and why you would like to be considered along with an up-to-date CV. All applications should be sent via e-mail to stefansantjer@spartanscf.com by the closing date of 5pm on Friday 3rd of October 2025.
Find out more about our organisation
If you require any additional information, with regards to the above post, please contact our Extra Time Project Lead, Stefan Santjer on 0131 552 7854.