Roles and Responsibilities of the Committee
Executive Committee
Chairperson
Secretary
Treasurer
Head Coach
Sub Committee
Vice Chairman
Volunteer Co-ordinator
Schools’ Liaison Officer
Referee Co-ordinator
Club Registrar
Press Officer
Child Protection Officer
Coaches
Chairperson
- Provide leadership and direction for the club
- Oversee the work of the Club Committee
- Chair meetings of the club
- Advocate of the football club for the local community.
Secretary
- Official contact between club and County FA and other clubs
- Ensure club affiliation and league membership
- Ensure effective correspondence and communication
- Provide minutes of meetings for official club records
- Match day duties to support teams and officials.
Treasurer
- Manage and administer finances of the club
- Create annual income and expenditure sheets and balance sheets
- Create and maintain a cash book for at least two years
- Ensure all payments and fines are paid on time and recorded
- Support all fundraising and sponsorship opportunities.
Head Coach
- Recruiting new coaches
- Provide coaches with a training / support programme
- Co-ordinate the coaching programme throughout the club
- Establish and/or support a coach mentoring programme
- Ensure the coaches are recognised and rewarded.
Sub Committee
Vice Chairman
- Provide leadership and direction for the club
- Oversee the work of the Club Committee
- Chair meetings of the club (during the Chairman’s absence.)
Volunteer Co-ordinator
- Recruiting new volunteers
- Ensuring volunteers are inducted to the club
- Provide volunteers with a brief of their role
- Ensure there is a training programme for volunteers
- Ensure volunteers are recognised and rewarded.
Schools’ Liaison Officer
- To establish links with local schools
- Meeting the school at least twice a year
- Ensuring schools receive information of club activities
- Develop opportunities for young leaders and players.
Referee Co-ordinator
- Recruitment and support for new referees
- Liaison with referees on match days
- Ensure referees are recognised and supported
- Establish and/or support a referee mentoring programme.
Club Registrar
- Ensure all coaches and members have completed relevant courses
- Ensures all coaches and members hold current registration.
- Ensures all team registrations have been completed
- Helps coaches and members book and complete courses.
- Ensures all fines have been responded to and actioned.
Press Officer
- Updates and manages club website
- Receives and collates match Reports
- Send match reports onto local press
- Maintains relationship with the local press
Child Protection Officer
- Receiving and acting upon any reported concerns.
- Ensuring all club members are familiar with, and adhere to the Child Protection Policy.
- Ensuring the Policy is implemented and promoted.
- Promoting best safeguarding practice across club and its members
- Act as a first point of contact for Child Protection both within the club and for other external contacts.
- Maintaining and updating the policy.
- Keep an up-to-date knowledge and understanding of the area of child protection, including attending appropriate training.
Coaches
- Ensure they are fully up to date with all certificates.
- Complete weekly training session with team.
- Complete match attendance
- Ensure team match documentation is sent to league (can be completed by parent)
- Ensure all team documentation up to date.
- Ensure all match reports are sent to press/web officer (can be completed by parent)
- Ensure attendance of all committee meetings. If unable to attend team rep must attend.
- Source all kit and funds to maintain team.