Wheelchair Football Coach

**About us**

Essendon FC - "The Bombers" - are a professional sporting team in the Australian Football League. As home to 5 sporting teams, we run our AFL men's and women's programs, VFL women's and men's programs, and a wheelchair football team. But we're more than the game. Not only do we exist to win premierships, we aim to give back to our loyal membership base, and importantly, our community. We understand and take seriously the impact we have on social outcomes and work tirelessly to ensure these are positive, from our partnership with The Long Walk, to our indigenous pathway programs. To do this, we have strong commercial partnerships and innovate with non-traditional ventures, such as our Essendon Education Academy and EFC Investment Fund, so that we can deliver world class events, give back to our fans, run community programs and ultimately, strive toward our next premiership.

**About the role**

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.

**About you**
- 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
- Permanent Residency in Australia, or appropriate visa to work permanently

**The Perks**
- ** Our work doesn't always fit the 9 to 5.** Your life doesn't always fit the hours around it. We offer flexibility with hybrid office / home working arrangements and hours.
- **Parent friendly - **We put family at the centre of our work. We know they are the centre of yours. We offer paid parental leave to both the primary and secondary carer of a biological or adopted child*.
- Access to **our Wellbeing Partner - Converge **which supports a Healthy Mind, Healthy Body and Healthy Workplace.
- ** Continuous professional development**:

- to compete at our best we have to keep learning. It's an expectation and a commitment we make to everyone at EFC. All EFC people will have access to the Essendon Leadership Academy which consists of formal learning, coaching and mentoring, to support you in achieving your career goals.
- ** But wait there's more - **You will have access to great benefits and discounts through our Commercial Partners. Along with two x Flexi Home & Away memberships* giving you access to our Home & Away games at Marvel Stadium and the MCG. Free onsite parking at our premium workspace, The Hangar, and more.

**Please keep reading...**

We pride ourselves on creating an environment of shared spirit of passion, innovation, and inclusivity. As an Equal Opportunity employer, we firmly believe that diversity and inclusion is an important part of how we do business. We are united in upholding our Club-wide values and are consistently setting the benchmark both on and off the field as we strive to win our next premiership. And we wouldn't be an elite footy club if we didn't celebrate. All our win's matter, on and off the field, we love to reward and recognise our people from monthly barbecues to tickets to the Crichton Medal and Brownlow.

**To Apply**

With our commitment to promoting and protecting the safety and wellbeing of children and young people in our care, we undertake several screening processes to ensure this commitment is upheld. This includes ensuring all our people hold a valid employee Working with Children/Vulnerable People check and a satisfactory criminal history record check.

We politely ask not to be approached by recruitment agencies at this time.