Cricket Community Coach

Overview

Passionate about using cricket to connect, inspire, and transform communities?

Join Warwickshire Cricket Foundation as our Cricket Cities Community Coach and play a key role in expanding access to cricket within inner-city communities. This 12-month maternity cover role is based at Edgbaston Cricket Ground and reports to the Women and Girls Community Manager.

You will deliver high-quality community coaching sessions as part of the Cricket Cities project, support the promotion of female participation programmes, and work closely with community and external partners to strengthen WCF’s community cricket offer. You will actively promote WCF activities to schools and local stakeholders, support communities in accessing cricket, and ensure accurate monitoring and reporting in line with funding requirements.

• Deliver high-quality community coaching sessions as part of the Cricket Cities project.
• Support the promotion of female participation programmes.
• Work closely with community and external partners to strengthen WCF’s community cricket offer.
• Actively promote WCF activities to schools and local stakeholders.
• Support communities in accessing cricket and ensure accurate monitoring and reporting in line with funding requirements.

• Experienced female coach with a strong background in community delivery, including coaching women and girls in inner-city and culturally diverse settings.
• Clear understanding of the barriers to female participation in physical activity and a genuine commitment to improving the physical and mental wellbeing of women and girls through sport.
• Recognised sports coaching qualification, first aid and safeguarding qualifications, enhanced DBS clearance, and a driving licence.
• Ability to align with WCF’s PRIDE values:
  Passion, Respect, Innovation, Diversity, and Excellence.
• Note:
  
  The role requires a female coach due to community needs and preferences; some sessions may be mixed gender, but the focus is on supporting and engaging female participants.

• This role works closely with women’s groups from diverse cultural and religious backgrounds; a female coach is a genuine occupational requirement.
• If you’re ready to make a real impact and help shape the future of women and girls’ cricket across Warwickshire, apply today.
• For more information about the role, including detailed responsibilities and requirements, refer to the Job Description available here.

Joining us means becoming part of a dedicated cricket community where enthusiasm, teamwork, and a shared drive for success are at the core of what we do.

We offer more than just a career; we offer an experience:

• Engaging Environment:
  Immerse yourself in the exciting world of cricket, surrounded by individuals who are dedicated to the sport.
• Cutting-Edge Facilities:
  Work at Edgbaston Stadium, a world-class facility that hosts some of the most thrilling cricket and live events.
• Exciting Benefits:
  Enjoy perks like free on-site parking, enhanced pension contributions, private healthcare, Christmas shut down, wellness week, and more!
• Career Development:
  Grow your career with development opportunities and the chance to make your mark in the cricket industry.
• Team Spirit:
  Join a team that celebrates success, supports one another, and makes a real impact.

Ready to take the plunge into an exciting career with WCF? Complete the application form by Sunday 22 February 2026. If you have any difficulties accessing the form, need it in a different format, or require specific adjustments during the recruitment process, please contact

All applicants must have the legal right to work in the UK. Unfortunately, Warwickshire Cricket are unable to sponsor work visas. Therefore, please do not apply if you do not have the right to work in the UK. Before employment commences, successful candidates will be required to provide evidence of their eligibility to work in the UK in accordance with the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006.

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