Wheelchair Football Coach

1 day ago

Tullamarine, Australia Essendon Football Club Full time

Careers at the Essendon Football Club (EFC) represent a unique opportunity to work in a dynamic, fast-paced and collaborative environment. Our club prides itself on its vision to foster an environment of shared spirit of passion, resilience, and inclusivity. We are united in upholding our Club-wide values of care, commit, compete and celebrate and we are consistently setting the benchmark both on and off the field as we strive to win a premiership. We are currently a Senior Coach to ‘Don the Sash’ and join our Victorian Wheelchair Football League (VWFL) Program in their fifth season. Our VWFL team train at our home, The NEC Hangar at Melbourne Airport.

**The Opportunity**

The VWFL Coach will provide leadership to our playing group, assisting with the development of players and our game plan. The Coach will communicate, support and motivate the playing group to perform to their highest level. To achieve this the VWFL Coach must develop strong working relationships with staff and players working within the Essendon VWFL Program.

This is a volunteer role that will require you to be available for 2 to 3 hours on a Thursday night for the VWFL Training session and for 3 to 4 hours fortnightly on a Sunday for our teams two games.

***What we are looking for**
- Experience working, playing, or coaching Australian Rules Football or a similar sport
- Experience working with athletes with a disability or in wheelchair sports is desirable
- Commitment to delivering one training session a weeknight and working fortnightly on game days for two matches
- Ability to create a game plan that suits the players abilities
- A thorough understanding of game strategies, playing styles, and tactics, targeted at players of all abilities
- Ability to create and develop training drills to entrench the game plan
- Ability to read a game of football, make player changes, create player match ups, provide player feedback and count classification numbers on court
- Ability to influence and create cultural change
- Willingness to uphold the values and behaviours of the Essendon Football Club
- Level 2 AFL Coaching Accreditation
- Current Working with Children Check or ability to obtain one
- Current driver’s licence to travel to and from the Club’s venues, schools, and other key stakeholder premises/meetings
- Current COVID-19 vaccination as required by public health orders or directions or as otherwise recommended by public health authorities and ongoing booster vaccinations as recommended by public health authorities, or relevant evidence as to why you are legally exempted from being vaccinated
- Permanent Residency in Australia, or appropriate visa to work permanently

**What we offer**
- Fantastic culture of grounded people, passionate about what they do
- Genuine workplace flexibility
- Offers from our commercial partners
- Access to our employee assistance program
- On-site parking

**To Apply**

To apply, please click on the appropriate link below and submit your resume and cover letter.
- We are committed to protecting the safety and wellbeing of children and young people and fostering a “child safe” culture. It is essential that anyone involved with the Essendon Football Club understands their responsibility in relation to child safety and supports such an environment._

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