Secondary School Engagement Coordinator
Location: City Academy & Ashton Gate Stadium
Hours: Full time, Mon-Fri with flexible start and finish times
Criminal Record Check: Enhanced with Child Barred List
Salary: £26,000 – £28,000 (depending on experience)
Do you want to work with young people in secondary schools and community settings and make a real difference?
Bristol Bears Foundation brings Bristol Bears to the heart of communities, using the power of the club and our passionate team to inspire the community of Bristol to unlock their potential and improve their lives.
Your next role
As our Secondary School Engagement Coordinator, you’ll lead the delivery, development and evaluation of programmes at City Academy, working with targeted KS3 and KS4 pupils through a mix of 1:1 mentoring, small group interventions, and extra-curricular clubs and festivals. You’ll also play a key role in introducing and growing rugby across the Cabot Learning Federation (CLF), working as part of a network of RFU School Rugby Managers, aiming for sustainable delivery.
You’ll collaborate with the Education & Skills Manager and key school staff to coordinate and deliver targeted interventions such as Bear in Mind and Bright Sparks, ensuring alignment with school and stakeholder priorities. You’ll also lead the delivery of Project Rugby at City Academy, engaging new audiences and advocating for rugby union as part of the curriculum, while supporting staff to achieve RFU-accredited qualifications.
This is a hands-on role that blends planning, delivery, mentoring, and partnership-building - ideal for someone passionate about inclusive sport, education, and community engagement.
What you’ll bring to our team
We want all our colleagues to bring with them their individual differences, we welcome your unique point of view and dynamic ideas, it’s what allows us to keep on being our best selves.
Person Specification:
- Proven experience working in a school or educational setting, particularly with secondary-aged pupils (KS3 and KS4), ideally through mentoring, coaching, or delivering structured interventions.
- Strong coaching background, with experience planning and delivering physical activity sessions.
- Experience building positive relationships with young people and adults with disabilities and impairments.
- Effective Mentoring Level 2 (or willingness to work towards).
- England Rugby Coaching Award (ERCA) or RFU Level 2 Coaching Award (or willingness to work towards).
- Access to a personal vehicle and possession of a full, valid UK driving licence.
- Degree in a relevant subject area.
- Experience developing partnerships at all levels to collaboratively deliver needs-driven projects.
The closing date for applications is Thursday 25th September 2025.
*We reserve the right to close this vacancy early, if a high volume of applicants are received and previous applicants need not apply*
The Cabot Learning Federation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. All roles across the trust have a varying level of responsibility for ensuring safeguarding practice, with some roles holding significant responsibility and involving working with children on a daily basis in regulated activity. Regardless of the level of responsibility and involvement in each role, we expect all staff, visiting professionals and volunteers to share this commitment.
All successful candidates will undergo a comprehensive pre-employment checking process, including an enhanced DBS check (including a further check against the appropriate barred list), references from current and previous employers, health, right to work in the UK, child disqualification, prohibition from teaching/management and online checks. You must also tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.