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Nottingham | United Kingdom
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Job Description
Salary: Please state your expectations within your application
Contract: Part Time, between 10-20 hours a week, depending on location
Location: Various
- Yorkshire & the North-East
- The Northwest
- East Midlands
- West Midlands
- London & the South-East
- The South-West & Wales
Closing Date For Applications: 15th March 2024
Our national scouts will focus on the identification and reporting of young talent, from a
specific region / country, who can either enter our pathway at key entry points - as scholars, as young professionals in our U18’s, or as emerging talents with strong first team potential in our B Team.
Key Tasks and Responsibilities:
- Identification and tracking of players in an agreed region or country territory who can enter our Academy at scholarship age, U18 PDP or B Team PDP
- In depth knowledge of players in that country / region from U14 and above to allow us sufficient time to complete detailed player profiling ahead of the key entry points and also act quicker than our competitors in that market
- Support areas, regions, countries outside the designated territory as required to allow player comparison across a national target list. This may include attending tournaments cross border and certainly international youth team fixtures in your territory
- Undertake video scouting in the same age space as designated by our technical scouting team
- Deliver on all scouting processes utilised within our recruitment team, including but not limited to - reporting, database management, information flows, meeting attendance, theory based CPD, etc.
- Play a positive and active role in the wider recruitment team when discussing and evaluating players, providing strong clear views and recommendations
- Develop and maintain a strong network of contacts ensuring we receive timely intel, which is reported on, firmly connecting us to the market allowing us to be agile and dynamic
Skills, Experience and Knowledge:
- A creative thinker with an outstanding track record in talent ID and recruitment, particularly in the YDP, PDP and ET space
- Ambitious and driven with a hunger to own and develop an exciting project within a territory
- Experience of live and video scouting / report writing
- Required governing body qualifications for that level of recruitment role
- Excellent knowledge of player development processes
- Experience working in elite Academy Football ideally.
- Achieved or willing to work towards the FA Talent ID level 2 qualification
- Meticulous attention to detail
- Strong relationship builder - building, developing and influencing relationships
- Excellent interpersonal skills with an adaptability to work with members of staff across departments
- Ability to work under pressure and willing to work unsociable hours and meet deadlines
- Dedicated to self-improvement and personal development in a very creative way
- Organised, methodical and logical approach to work but with a creative spark
- High level I.T. skills
- Enhanced DBS Check
Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity & Inclusion
Nottingham Forest Football Club is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all suitably qualified persons, regardless of age, disability, gender, gender reassignment, marital / civil partnership status, pregnancy / maternity leave, race, religion/belief, sexual orientation, or any other legally protected characteristic.
Nottingham Forest Football Club is a signatory of the FA’s Football Leadership Diversity Code. We are committed to developing policies to promote equal opportunities and diversity within our workforce. To monitor our progress against these commitments, we require all applicants to provide accurate diversity data during the application process.
Our Commitment to Safeguarding
As part of the Club’s commitment to safeguarding, the successful applicant may be required to undergo a Disclosure Barring Service (“DBS”) check or an enhanced DBS check. The results of a DBS check will be considered on an individual basis, and the Club will act in a proportionate manner when deciding whether or not to proceed with the appointment.
An FA Enhanced DBS disclosure is required for all relevant new appointments to the Club. Individuals will be asked to declare any convictions, cautions or reprimands, warnings or bind-overs that may have been incurred. The Club reserves the right to carry out risk assessments where content has been disclosed on a DBS disclosure if it feels that it is relevant to the job requirements. Failure to satisfy the Club and the EFL's safeguarding requirements may lead to the job offer being withdrawn or, if they have already started employment, summary termination of the employment.
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