Senior Cricket Coach

Ipswich School has been listed as one of the top 100 schools in the country and is certainly one of the foremost independent schools in East Anglia. We were established prior to 1399, although we moved to our present site in 1852. We have circa 1000 pupils aged between 3 months and 19 years and we are fully co-educational. The most recent Inspection of the Senior School (November 2025) rated us as Excellent in all categories, a judgement of which we are very proud. The School operates a 5 day week, with representative sports played during the week and on Saturdays. Our Sports programme, under the leadership of our new Director of Sport, has entered an exciting new, professional phase and we are proud of our recent national successes as well as our participation rates in all four of our focus sports. THE POST This is an outstanding opportunity for a cricket professional, who possesses proven experience of planning and delivering coaching sessions at a high level, and/or experience of playing at a national level. The level of cricket at Ipswich School in recent years has been nothing short of phenomenal. Our girls have won 5 national titles in the past 4 years, including U18 T20 and U18 Hundred, and our U53 girls are current National indoor champions. We have a tremendous pipeline of talent coming through and will remain nationally competitive for the foreseeable future - a truly exciting prospect for any coach! You will be equipped to implement a vision for the game in an Independent School with exceptional facilities, and a national reputation for success and development. RESPONSIBLE TO You will be responsible to the Head of Cricket and Director of Sport. MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES We are dedicated to delivering the highest quality sporting programme and you will need to demonstrate an ability to: Develop the cricket programme in line with our desire to provide ‘Sport for All’, whilst catering for the elite players who aim for national representation.