Job Opportunities in United Arab Emirates

Location: Abu Dhabi, AE
Opening Date: 4 Sep 2024
Full Time / Part Time: Full Time
Contract Type: Fixed Term
Closing Date of Applications - 11/09/2024


Please note this is a fixed term contract until 31/12/2025
This role will be delivering our Healthy Lifestyles program to girls only schools in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi. This will include both classroom and practical deliveries. Additional to the main responsibilities, the role will support other programs operated by City Football Middle East across the MENA region.
As well as working for the Premier League Champions in the UAE, the role carries a competitive salary with the following benefits: Housing, Medical cover, Transport Allowance and Flights.
Our Story
Established in 2013, City Football Group is the world’s leading private owner and operator of football clubs, with total or partial ownership of thirteen clubs across the world. City Football Group also invests in other football related businesses and serves as a global commercial platform for our partners, whilst fulfilling our purpose of empowering better lives through football on a local and global scale, consistent with what “City” football has meant to people for over a century.
Our Winning Team
Our purpose is to empower better lives through football. We are proud of the role City Football Group clubs play in their localities, delivering positive economic, social and environmental impact through our operations and through programmes and activities that bring about meaningful, lasting change.
As a Female Program Coach you will coach and deliver across Girls Football Education programs in the UAE (and internationally where relevant)
Your Impact
What we are looking for
Essential

• FA Level 2 / UEFA C minimum
• Member of a FA to maintain their Coach License or International equivalent
• Education in sports coaching or teaching
• Post-holder must hold or obtain at the earliest opportunity the relevant safeguarding training (i.e. FA Safeguarding Children Workshop)
• Post-holder will be subject a DBS check at the appropriate level and cleared by the Manchester City Safeguarding Officer
• To have experience in a football environment
• To have worked within a school environment
• To have proven experience working with players from varying backgrounds and cultures
• To have experience implementing and developing a football coaching syllabus
• Demonstrate experience and knowledge of planning, delivering and reviewing sessions
• To have knowledge and understanding of player development and the four-corner model
• To have experience working within a professional Football Club or sporting organisation
• To have flexibility to travel when required to support projects both in the UK and Internationally
• The ability to create a positive working environment that represents Manchester City and the local partner in the marketplace
• To demonstrate how to coach and develop players of differing levels of ability
• To communicate to players on and off the field and in a variety of settings such as informal, formal, individual or groups
• To be organised in planning, preparation and execution within a project
• To self-review sessions with individual players
• To have the ability to evaluate and review programs on completion

City Football Group promotes equal opportunities in employment and we positively welcome applications from all candidates regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation.
We will screen all applicants and select candidates whose skills and experience seem to meet our needs. We will carefully consider your application during the initial screening and will contact you only if you are selected for an interview.
Employment is subject to the provision of proof of eligibility to work in the UK.
Due to our safeguarding promise, all UK based CFG roles will be subject to a DBS check upon commencing employment with us. This will be either a basic, standard or enhanced check depending on the job role and responsibilities.