Nathan Simpson

Experience

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  Littlekickers Amersham

  Dec 2008 - Aug 2011

  Head Football Coach

  LittleKickers gave me a great insight into business processes, and the development of early learning. I was a key holder for the company, in charge of holding kit, organising session plans, and implementing drills. It gave me the opportunity to work with young children and to encourage and increase their development.

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  Three Rivers & Watford School Sports Partnership

  Sept 2011 - Oct 2012

  School Games Organiser

  The role gave me a number of skills:- Lead responsibility for developing, maintaining and sustaining relationships with local sports organisations (NGB’s, Local authorities, and Clubs).- Ensuring that all sports festival/activities were created, developed and delivered to a high standard.- Increasing participation across a range of sports within 40 local primary schools, 8 secondary schools, and the community.- Manage a range of budgets, releasing funding for coaching subsidy schemes, and ensuring the partnership was financially stable and viable.- Responsible for developing and implementing a range of monitoring and evaluation methods to gauge partnership success.- Ensuring that all activities, competitions and festivals were marketed in a positive manner.- Senior project management and management of a 10 person team. Show less

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  The Football Association

  Oct 2012 - Jun 2014

  FA Skills Coach

  The role has given me the opportunity to coach professionally; it has afforded me the time to continually develop myself through good practice, it has given me a multitude of transferable skills, please see below:- Presenting and leading team meetings on a regular basis.- I have been involved with the marketing and advertising of the programme from a local to national level.- Responsible for interviewing and providing both motivational and developmental feedback to prospective employees within The FA Skills Programme.- Creating and instilling the ethos of a lasting legacy within the skills programme. - Events management.- Co-ordination, delivery and implementation of a successful coaching programme across Middlesex.- Creation of resources and session plans for schools across Ealing.- Delivery of coach education and high quality PE sessions following national curriculum guidelines. Show less

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  Sporting Equals

  Jun 2014 - Jan 2015

  South Regional Officer

  The role has enabled me to develop my managerial/sports development skills and understanding of working within an equality and diversity organisation, it has given me the opportunity to: - Be the sole representative for the charity in the South, I am responsible for all relationship creation, partnership development and management of the charity across the region. - Carry out market research and similar activities, collate data and information, produce and deliver reports and presentations both internally and externally regarding participation trends and behaviour change.- To broker and develop partnerships between BME communities, including community organisations, faith groups, ethnic media and ethnic businesses with National Governing Bodies of sport and County Sports Partnerships in order to increase BME communities’ involvement in sport and physical activity, through participation, volunteering, coaching and management.- To work closely in partnership with the Sporting Equals Insight Team to collect quantitative and qualitative data from BME communities to increase Sporting Equals understanding of BME consumer demand and behaviour in sport and physical activity.- To raise the profile of Sporting Equals in local communities through relationship with key regional and local stakeholders including local authorities, health authorities, political figures and community influencers. Show less

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  Berks & Bucks Football Association

  Jan 2015 - Jan 2018

  Football Development Officer/Manager (Women's & Girls Lead)

  Marketing- Positively raise the profile of football, including promotion of all opportunities on County FA website, e-newsletter, through social network and local media.- Support the delivery of targeted FA campaigns.- Produce articles for County FA website to promote and raise the profile of the business.- Production of promotional footage to increase awareness of County initiatives.- Co-ordinated, planned and delivered The Berks & Bucks FA Community Awards to 100 guests at The Madejski Stadium (see URL for more info).Running the game effectively- Actively input to the development of the County plan and delivery plansFunding- Signpost clubs and leagues on revenue funding opportunities available to implement Football Development Plans specifically around Coaching Bursaries. Show less

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  St Mary’s University, Twickenham

  Jan 2018 - Mar 2020

  Coach Development Officer (Women's & Girls Football)

  - Recruit, develop and provide deployment and mentor support, for coaches from the university and local catchment area.- Produce and develop both a strategic and delivery plan for the region (Middlesex and Surrey). Initiated by a mapping exercise to identify the coaching landscape - number of coaches, qualifications, where they are active as well as highlighting the gaps, the ‘hot spots’ and the specific coaching needs for the area. You will establish a working group consisting of key stakeholders to develop and monitor the plan.- To work with the Regional Coach Education Officers (FA YCDs, NCDs, CCDs, Mentors, Tutors) to ensure that County FAs, leagues, clubs and the HEI’s work collaboratively in our endeavour to increase both the number of qualified female coaches and BAME & Disabled coaches at grassroots level.- Work strategically with the FA, Middlesex & Surrey County FA and St Mary’s University academics to create a ‘coaching framework’ which will underpin all coach development initiatives in support of the women’s and girls’ game. - To contribute to the development of appropriate coach education modules, resources and CPD which meets individual coaches and club needs in the women’s and girls’ game. - Track and analyse delivery of the Coach Development Plan and share good practice across the FA Women’s High Performance Football Centres & Community Football Hubs. - Develop links with Regional Talent Centres, Academy programmes & FA WSL clubs in the region.- Oversee/lead the development of the women’s football programme at St Mary’s with an emphasis on attracting and supporting talented athletes. - To deliver participation and workforce targets as set by the Sports Development Manager & the FA Head of Women’s Coach Development, providing regular reports on key activities & KPI’s Show less

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  University of Surrey

  Mar 2020 - now

  Senior HEON Officer