"Fitness Coach"

We are seeking a full-time Fitness Coach to support delivery of our growing wellbeing, fitness, strength and conditioning activities. If you are passionate about training and motivating individuals and groups to achieve their training and fitness goals, this role could be for you!

You will be part of a team that:

• Plans, develops and delivers strength and conditioning (S&C) sessions to high performance athletes on TASS and UCAPP. (TASS is a national scheme that supports athletes and UCAPP is the University's own in-house high-performance programme for athletes that offers support in multiple areas, including S&C in which the role holder will be a key figure)
• Designs and carries out S&C sessions for University Sports Clubs and external teams working with a variety of sports such as fencing, rugby league, swimming, modern pentathlon, netball, etc
• Supports individual customers and groups to achieve their fitness goals by conducting inductions, creating programmes, and delivering personal training sessions and workshops
• Delivers fitness classes (e.g. circuits) and workshops as part of our group exercise class timetable and contributes to our active students and staff programmes
• Contributes to the operation of the University Sports Service as a whole, supporting health and safety requirements, customer service, cleaning and maintenance needs, mentoring other staff and opening up/locking up procedures

You should have relevant fitness/S&C qualifications: Level 2/3/4 gym instructors/personal training/S&C Trainer etc. UKSCA accreditation is desirable or be working towards this with the ability to achieve this within 12 months.

You should have experience of working with a range of individuals and groups; from those training for health reasons through to high performance athletes, and you should be just as passionate about dealing with general gym users as you are with athletes and teams.

Benefits of working at Cambridge include:

• Competitive rates of pay with automatic service-related pay progression and annual cost of living increases
• Generous annual leave allowance of 36 days paid leave (including bank holidays)
• Generous maternity, paternity, adoption and shared parental leave entitlement and other family friendly schemes (e.g. workplace nurseries and salary exchange schemes for childcare)
• An auto-enrolment pension scheme with a generous employer contribution
• Travel benefits and retail discounts at over 2,000 local and national stores
• Schemes to support with relocation/the provision of accommodation

Appointment to this role will be subject to a satisfactory completion of a six-month probationary period, as well as a satisfactory completion of a Disclosure and Barring Service check (enhanced with children and adults' barred lists).

Click the 'Apply' button below to register an account with our recruitment system (if you have not already) and apply online.

Prospective candidates are encouraged to use the Suitability for the Role section of the application form to highlight how they meet the person specification and what skills, knowledge and experience they would bring to the role.

Disability Confident Scheme
We do not provide our recruiting teams with any information about a candidate's protected characteristics, including disability. If you would like to be considered under the Disability Confident scheme, we encourage candidates to state this under the 'Reasonable Adjustments' section of the application. This information is only available to recruitment administrators.

Please note: The University is unable to issue sponsorship under the Skilled Worker Visa route for this role, as the role is not eligible for sponsorship.

The interviews will take place on Wednesday 8 October 2025.

For a full Job Description and Person Specification, please see the Further Particulars of the role.

If you have any questions which are not covered by the Further Particulars or the Sports Website, please e-mail recruitment@sport.cam.ac.uk

Please quote reference DG47314 on your application and in any correspondence about this vacancy.

The University actively supports equality, diversity and inclusion and encourages applications from all sections of society.

The University has a responsibility to ensure that all employees are eligible to live and work in the UK.