Level 2 Community Activator Apprentice - Stevenage Football Foundation
STEVENAGE FOOTBALL FOUNDATION LIMITED
Stevenage (SG2 8RH)
Closes on Tuesday 30 September 2025
Posted on 27 August 2025
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Summary
If you are passionate about football, then this is the position for you. Working within the Football Community Team at Stevenage Football Foundation. This offers a varied position that gives valuable opportunities to gain experience through working with young people, colleagues, and key community partners in sport.
- Wage
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£11,778 to £19,047.60, depending on your age
National Minimum Wage
- Training course
- Community activator coach (level 2)
- Hours
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Working week
Monday - Friday, shifts to be confirmed.
30 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 6 October 2025
- Duration
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1 year 2 months
- Positions available
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1
Work
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
What you'll do at work
The role involves:
Working within a football community setting and supporting the delivery of community sport with two particular focuses.
- School Sport. Delivering a wide range of sports lessons and extra-curricular sport sessions in local primary schools
- Community Youth Engagement. Engaging with hundreds of 8-18-year-olds through turn-up & play football sessions as well as a wide range of other constructive activities
- The wider community role involves working within the local networks to deliver and support coaching within and across partner community settings and schools
Where you'll work
Stevenage FC Foundation
The Lamex Stadium
Broadhall Way
Stevenage
SG2 8RH
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
SPORTING FUTURES TRAINING (UK) LTD
Training course
Community activator coach (level 2)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- Planning and adapting sessions and activities that respond to customer feedback and encourage customers to develop a lifelong activity habit.
- Coaching or leading pre-planned sport or physical activity sessions that are attractive to the target audience(s) and develop motivational relationships with customers.
- Promoting a physical activity offer, (including but not exclusively) organised play and sport in the community which supports individuals on their behaviour change journey.
- Working collaboratively with sports clubs and other community assets – including volunteers, public services, youth workers, the police and community champions.
- Supporting customers to co-produce rewarding volunteering opportunities.
- Supporting families to participate together in sport and physical activity.
- Working effectively with customer insight to overcome individual, community and societal barriers to participation in physical activity and sport.
- Contributing to the employer’s design of activities and services and practising the employer’s organisation’s values, policies and procedures.
- Contributing to teams that deliver community events and festivals.
- Supporting organisations to evaluate, develop and promote sessions and other opportunities such as outdoor group exercise and informal social play.
- Maintaining personal safety and wellbeing, as well as that of customers.
- Managing disruptive behaviours from individuals within the group setting.
- Encouraging customers to be regularly active – both formally and informally – within sports clubs or leisure facilities including open-space.
- Effectively using social media and technology, appropriately, to deliver targeted messages to identified customer groups for example children, teenagers, adults and older adults.
- Effectively monitor and evaluate activities, sessions and projects using technology platforms to maintain accurate records and produce timely reports.
Training schedule
Level 2 Community Activator Coach apprenticeship standard, which includes:
- Safeguarding Level 1
- Prevent Duty
- Level 1/2 functional skills in maths and English (if required)
- End-Point Assessment (EPA)
- ENHANCED – NGB Football delivered by Club
Requirements
Desirable qualifications
GCSE or equivalent in:
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Organisation skills
- Team working
- Initiative
About this employer
Stevenage Football Club Foundation (Charity No: 1140006) is the official charity of Stevenage Football Club, working to create a community where all can live an active, healthy and positive life. The Foundation’s work is built around two core principles – People & Potential. We work on a number of projects with a variety of partners in order to deliver work that impacts those two principles.
After this apprenticeship
Level 3 Community Sport and Health Officer Apprenticeship.
Level 4 Community Sports Coach.
Teaching Assistant with PE Focus in a school setting.
PE Teacher – following higher Education routes.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
SPORTING FUTURES TRAINING (UK) LTD
Adam Baker
vacancies@esfapprenticeships.co.uk
01784222300
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000070164.
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Closes on Tuesday 30 September 2025
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