Salary: Please state your expectations within your application

Contract: Full Time, 42 hours a week

Location: The City Ground, Nottingham, NG2 5FJ and Various locations

Working Arrangements: On site

Closing Date For Applications: 20th September 2024

Key Tasks and Responsibilities:

• Be the lead Driver for the executive department and for Training Ground football requirements across the First Team and Academy.
• Work with relevant staff to find the best solution for transport needs, ensuring the most cost-effective and efficient solutions are found which may require adjusting plans after they have been proposed.
• Assist with the scheduling of transport needs across the First Team and Academy.
• Make recommendations on how best to maximise to efficient use of the Club’s pool of vehicles.
• Work with the first team transport department to develop an efficient transport calendar and process for booking journeys.
• Assist the Fleet Manager in ensuring vehicles kept at the Training Ground are maintained to ensure they are legally compliant. Mileage sheets and vehicle logs should be tracked and regulated.
• Work with the Fleet Manager, ensuring vehicles are booked in for servicing and repairs where required.
• Ensure vehicles are kept in a clean condition, arrange cleaning where needed, ensuring Club procedures are followed in terms of PO raising and submission of invoices.
• Ensure any damage to Training Ground vehicles is immediately reported.
• Map out driving routes ahead of time to ensure the safest, most cost and time efficient trip is delivered.
• Be available where required, to assist with any Ad-hoc Club driving jobs, including work from the City Ground.

Skills, Experience and Knowledge:

• A valid and clean driving licence
• FA CRB Enhanced Disclosure
• Extensive experience in professional driving roles
• Experience of working with high-profile individuals
• Good knowledge of local and national roads, and planned roadworks
• Ability to drive different types of vehicles (e.g. automatic, 9-seaters, vans)
• Comfortable driving long distances at different hours of the day
• Ability to work effectively under own initiative and as a team member to anticipate and prioritise different workloads
• Ability to communicate concisely, assertively and effectively with various professional disciplines and at all levels of an organisation
• Is structured and diligent in areas of financial control, administration, and operations. Maximises use f resources.
• Availability to occasionally take weekend and night shifts
• A polite and professional disposition with an ability to remain calm in stressful situations
• Ability to adapt quickly and have a flexible attitude
• Be able to maintain absolute confidentiality

Desirable:

• A recognised qualification in Safeguarding Children or equivalent
• Additional driving qualifications
• Have a good level of IT skills

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 PL's safeguarding requirements may lead to the job offer being withdrawn or, if they have already started employment, summary termination of the employment.