Job Vacancy: Lead Senior Squad Coach

Tideway Scullers School is an exciting high achieving club with competitive squads of every age and increasing outreach into the local community.

TSS has a long history of success at both top domestic and international level with representation at every Olympics for over 50 years.

We are looking for a new Lead Senior Squad Coach to consolidate and build on this success with a coaching focus on leading our senior squad. 

 

Tideway Scullers School - Background

Many international rowers have worn our famous red and yellow kit, but the Tideway Scullers community is about much more than that.

Our junior section introduces rowing to the local community and supports juniors to the highest standards regularly competing at Junior International events.

In 2021 the JM won the Fawley Challenge Cup at HRR, and in 2023 our JW won the Diamond Jubilee Challenge Cup at HRR. This year our juniors won 3 international vests.

At senior level, one current member and three of our alumni raced at the 2024 Olympics and we have had representation at every Olympics since the club was founded.

The current senior squad has just completed a first rebuilding year successfully doubling entries at HWR and HRR with crews successfully moving through qualifying to race at both events.

The masters’ athletes are both recreational and regularly compete at top events, medaling at European and World Masters as well as British Masters and HMR.

Our coaches currently include the BR Club Performance Coach of the Year (also the BR Junior Sculling Lead) and both our junior coaches have been selected by BR to support international events this year.

We also run the well-known “Alec Hodges sculling courses” through the Easter and Summer holidays to introduce up to 30 athletes on each course to our passion for single sculling/ learning to make a boat move with an age range from 10 to 75.


Lead Senior Squad Coach

We are looking for an ambitious enthusiastic and collaborative senior squad coach with a passion for sculling and rowing. The successful applicant will also have the experience to support our ambitions and help lead the senior squad’s next steps to further success and creatively develop stronger links between our junior and senior squads.

Job Detail

This role will involve supporting our athletes work towards their goals at all levels, oversee supporting coaches as needed and work collaboratively with our coaching team.

Lead Senior Squad Coach – approx. 40 hours per week - to include: -

 

  • Developing and implementing annual strategy for the Senior squads by identifying appropriate targets and events, performing crew preparation and selection reflexively relative to athletes each year.

  • Recruitment and retention in senior squad. Develop a proactive recruitment programme that attracts and retains athletes with a longer-term focus as well as current year results.

  • Athlete development. Supporting and coaching senior athletes to include Triallists and U23’s (as well as senior club athletes) with a clear development pathway and appropriate communication, assessment, and support. Setting crews based on competitive goals, valuing assistant coach feedback, and providing positive athlete feedback.

  • Responsible for management of boats allocated to Senior group.

  • Responsible for safety and adherence to club and British Rowing rules and code of conduct.

  • Develop and maintain appropriate standards of behaviour as a senior representative of the club both on and off the water following BR guidelines.

  • Manage day to day activities needed to enable coaching and rowing, incl launch fuel etc.

  • Identifying opportunities to improve the profile of TSS and its athletes, placing an emphasis on the sculling opportunities at a club where all athletes are expected to single scull competently and competitively.

You will have a

  • Full driving licence (with experience of towing rowing trailers)

  • Coaching qualification (minimum: UKCC Level 2 or international equivalent)

  • Launch driving qualification (RYA Powerboat Level 2 or international equivalent)

 

This full-time salaried position will offer remuneration relative to your experience and our ambition for you and all our athletes. This is a chance to help write the next page of the Scullers story. We are looking forward to hearing from you, if you want to know more or to apply, please email vicecaptain@tidewayscullers.com.

Please make your applications by Monday 22nd October 18.00 which should include your CV and a covering letter explaining what you would bring to the Senior Squad Coach role.

Interviews from Monday 29th October.

Tideway Scullers