Role: Women’s First Team Goalkeeper Coach

Employer: Cardiff City Football Club Women

Location: Ocean Park Arena, Cardiff City Stadium & Away match travel

Contract: Casual

Salary: Competitive hourly rate

Hours of Work: Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday evenings + Sunday matches

Department: Women’s Team

Reporting to: 1st Team Manager

Closing Date: Monday 8th June (5pm)

Job purpose

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join Cardiff City Women as a 1st Team Goalkeeper Coach.

The First Team Goalkeeper Coach is responsible for developing the goalkeeper group in alignment with the manager’s playing style, delivering tailored training and match preparation to maximise performance and consistency.

Main duties

• Plan, deliver, and evaluate goalkeeper-specific training sessions and matchday preparation in line with the club’s coaching blueprint and game model.
• Design sessions that develop the technical, tactical, physical, and psychological demands of elite goalkeeping.
• Deliver goalkeeper-unit practices that support the manager’s philosophy and meet the individual needs of each goalkeeper.
• Contribute to individual, unit, or team meetings by providing goalkeeper-specific insights to our goalkeeping unit.
• When necessary, support the recruitment process by assessing goalkeeper transfer targets and identifying potential signings.
• Work collaboratively with all departments, including medical, sports science, and performance analysis, to optimise goalkeeper development and performance.
• Stay up to date with modern goalkeeping trends and continually seek opportunities to improve goalkeeper operations and practices.
• Oversee our Girls’ Academy coaches and support with their professional development, and where necessary with their session planning and delivery.
• Undertake other reasonable duties as requested by the 1st Team Manager.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential:

• UEFA Goalkeeper B Licence
• FAW Football Level 2
• FAW (or equivalent) Emergency Aid Certificate
• FAW (or equivalent) Safeguarding Certificate

Desirable:

• Working towards A or achieved UEFA Goalkeeper A Licence

Experience

Essential:

• Experience of working within a first team football environment

Desirable:

• Experience of working within an Academy environment
• Experience of supervising a small group of staff

Knowledge

Essential:

• Strong communication and delivery skills.
• Strong knowledge of correct goalkeeper techniques and adapting these techniques to the goalkeepers within our squads.
• Demonstrable competency in effective reviewing of coaching sessions and fixtures.
• Ability to deliver information to players and staff through a variety of means on and off the field.

Desirable:

• Knowledge of Sports analysis software

Skills

Essential:

• Adaptability to be effective in a dynamic, fast-paced environment
• Strong communication skills in a variety of settings
• Ability to maintain absolute confidentiality

Desirable:

• Knowledge of Sports analysis software

Attitude

Essential:

• Passionate and hard working
• Self-motivated within a team and capable of motivating those around them
• Approachable and trustworthy manner

Equality Statement

Cardiff City Football Club promotes equal opportunities in employment we positively welcome applications from all candidates regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation.

Safer Recruitment Policy

Cardiff City Football Club operates a ‘safer recruitment policy’ and is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and adults at risk and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All appropriate reference checks and Enhanced Level Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks form a significant part of this recruitment process.