Academy Goalkeeping Coach (U9-U14) Job at Bournemouth, Dorset Full Time

Application Deadline: 7 June 2026

Department: Academy – Coaching

Employment Type: Permanent – Full Time

Location: AFC Bournemouth Performance Centre, Wimborne

Description

Coach & manage the administration of the Academy Goalkeepers (U9-U14). Co-ordinate the U9-U14 goalkeepers plan throughout the week, collaboration with coaching staff and the clear communication of plans to the MDT.

The Academy has been driving towards excellence over the years and since achieving Category Two, this is a really exciting time to join us, as we move on to the next stage, push for Category One and continue to support the First Team.

Academy Values

• Players First: every player valued. Every decision made with care.
• Togetherness: working as part of a wider team and willing to contribute beyond own interests.
• Integrity: carrying out academy and club values in an open and honest manner.
• Accountability: willing to take responsibility for actions, allowing for learning, growth and reflection.

Key Responsibilities Session Delivery

• Co-ordinate or deliver goalkeeping sessions, primarily for the U9-U14 age groups. These sessions will be in line with the Academy micro-cycles sent out on a weekly basis.
• Upload every session onto the Football Intelligence Platform, for storage and tracking. This includes all activity breakdown.
• Complete clips and feedback on Hudl for each player, on a weekly basis.
• With support from the goalkeeper department, send out weekly goalkeeper micro cycle to communicate what the goalkeepers are working on, where they will get their goalkeeper contact time and what match minutes they will get throughout the week.
• Communicate with coaches on a weekly basis and ensure that the goalkeepers are integrated into the training sessions, whilst also planning for their inclusion in session planning, or co-ordinating this with goalkeeping coaches delivering sessions.

Analysis

• Ensure that a goalkeeping handover process is made, whereby performance and development of goalkeepers is regularly shared amongst coaches and goalkeeping staff.
• Co-ordinate filming of all goalkeeper sessions in the YDP.
• Deliver or co-ordinate delivery of regular analysis sessions in an age-appropriate manner (i.e. YDP – fortnightly, FP – periodically).

Meetings

• Attend MDMs on a weekly and termly basis, preparing notes on all goalkeepers prior to these meetings.
• Attend goalkeeping meetings on a weekly basis.
• Attend all meetings as required by the Head of Academy & Academy Head of Coaching.
• Complete all relevant reviews. Ensuring all learning objectives feedback should be linked to the session and matchday performance and outline performance and progress of individuals.

Other duties

• As a member of staff to ensure in all matters, you follow and actively promote the club’s mental health policies and practices to ensure an open, non-judgmental and inclusive environment for everyone engaged with the club.
• Obligation to adhere to the club’s health and safety policy and procedures.
• As a member of staff to ensure in all matters you follow and actively promote the club’s equality policies and practices to ensure a welcoming, safe and inclusive environment for everyone engaged with the club.
• Equality champions are responsible for advocating and raising awareness of EDI throughout their department. The equality champion should also endeavour to attend as many equality champions meetings as possible and provide valuable/ considered feedback to the EDI manager on any relevant campaigns, issues or activities.

The duties and responsibilities described are not a comprehensive list and additional tasks may be assigned to the employee from time to time; or the scope of the job may change as necessitated by business demands.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

• Experience of working in an elite sporting environment to provide performance analysis support & delivery.
• Experience using performance analysis software (SportsCode, Hudl, Wyscout, Studio, Apple & Microsoft software).
• UEFA B Goalkeeping
• UEFA B Outfield

The Club’s values are at the core of its staff behaviour and how they approach everything they do, therefore we are looking for someone is honest, inclusive, kind, hardworking and loyal.

• Ability to communicate with a variety of audiences (coaches, players, analysis department, multi-disciplinary team, wider academy staff)
• Ability to work to strict deadlines.
• Willingness to learn and develop.
• Strong work ethic.
• Full UK driving license (desirable).

Benefits

• Free onsite parking.
• Season ticket and allocation of complimentary/purchased tickets (subject to availability).
• Subsidised lunches and complimentary healthy snacks throughout the day.
• Discounts at the club Superstore.
• Access to Health Cash Plan with Simplyhealth.
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Contribution towards eye tests and glasses.
• Discounts and benefits from partners and local businesses.
• Club pension & Life Assurance Scheme.
• Paid parental leave (bank of five days per year).
• Club events or other social events throughout the year run by our club social team.
• Paid volunteer opportunities (2 days per year).
• Paid day’s leave on your birthday.