Lead Community Tennis Coach

To help us achieve our sporting ambitions, we’re looking for a Lead Community Tennis Coach to coordinate and deliver the community coaching programme of our award-winning university tennis programme. Your work as our Lead Community Tennis Coach will be key in driving forward our university impact on both the local community as well as the Welsh tennis landscape. 

You’ll lead the way

• Through delivering engaging and impactful tennis lessons for children and adults within the local community.
• By ensuring the programme continually grows, looking for the next opportunity to open tennis up, support assistant coaches and expanding the Cardiff Met tennis impact. 
• By becoming part of a wider Cardiff Met tennis system, leading the community strand of a large-scale tennis programme. 

What you’ll bring

Your experience of coaching and developing tennis, will enable you to grow and deliver an impactful community tennis programme across multiple tennis sites and multiple age groups. With a strong customer focused mindset, you’ll understand the importance of bringing people together through tennis, and how the sport can provide a fun, healthy and enjoyable impact on people’s lives.

You’ll lead a team of assistant coaches, maintaining a high standard of delivery to ensure you can be proud of each and every session. 

Your exceptional organisation and interpersonal skills will be key to building a sustainable tennis programme that compliments the wider tennis system.

Additionally you’ll hold

• LTA Tennis Coach (level 3) qualification or higher
• LTA Coach Accreditation+

Why join Cardiff Metropolitan University?

We are a values-based University. We are proud of our culture, and we are there for our people. Our community spirit is the golden thread that underpins our values and behaviours. We support and embrace inclusion that enables everyone to feel respected and able to perform at their best. By joining our University, you'll find yourself in a unique environment where a wealth of knowledge and resources are readily available, supporting you with your career development. 

We offer excellent benefits such as:

• Annual leave of 25 days, rising to 30 days after 1 years’ service, plus 12 bank holiday / concessionary days.
• Membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme with generous monthly contributions.
• Excellent family friendly policies – take a look on our Policy Hub page.
• Opportunities to learn and develop your skills with access to library and digital services facilities.
• Free family access to our independent specialist wellbeing support provider, Health Assured. 

For more information about the role please contact Billy Barclay (Head of Tennis) on bbarclay@cardiffmet.ac.uk. 

All applications must be submitted online.

The person specification will be used as a tool for shortlisting; so please make sure you use this information when writing your application. You can find useful hints and tips about how to apply by visiting our Application Guidance page.

If you would like to discuss your advert with a member of the recruitment team please contact staffrecruitment@cardiffmet.ac.uk for guidance and support.

Applications may be submitted in Welsh, and an application submitted in Welsh will not be treated less favourably than an application submitted in English.

Should a high volume of applications be received, we may need to close this vacancy early. We therefore encourage you to apply as early as possible.

We use the person specification as a tool for shortlisting; so please make sure you use this information when writing your application. You can find useful hints and tips about how to apply by visiting our Application Guidance page. 

The University is committed to creating a highly inclusive culture. We offer family friendly and flexible working arrangements and a range of staff networks, forums and events to support and develop our people. We warmly welcome applications from those traditionally underrepresented in the higher education sector.