Aug 2008 01

Non-job madness13

Rage_2This is a non-job special blog after being tipped off by a supporter for this job at Moray Council:

“Street Football Co-ordinator
£19,887

Job Purpose

Working closely with partnership groups to lead the development and delivery of the street football project to improve the health and well being of children and young people in Moray.

Major Tasks and resposibilities

To assist in the planning, planning promotion and delivery of the street football project in Moray.

To liaise with the partnership groups and other relevant organisations to increase the opportunities for young people through this project.

To develop links with appropriate organisations to deliver this project in the most effective way in Moray.                                             

Skills and Experience

2 years experience in sports develelopment / youth work with young people

Excellent oral, written and IT skills

Full driving licence

Motivated by success and high standards with committment to the development of young people 

Flexible and willing to travel and work unsociable hours.”

Can you contain the rage?  This is unbelievable.  Councils now engaging in planning and funding ‘street football’.  All you need for football is a few jumpers for goalposts and a ball.  You certainly don’t need a Town Hall lackey earning off the taxpayer to organise something that happens already without government interference.  It defies belief, it really does.

Feel free to politely inform the convenor of the council (i.e. leader of the council) Cllr George McIntyre of your displeasure by sending an email to [email protected]

Believe you me when I say this job is going in our non-job report in December.

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  • Claire

    Sickening. Absolutely sickening.

  • Artiford

    Surely with all the hype about knife crime and obiesity around at the minute positions like this are a good idea?
    Jumpers for goalposts? try and remove your self from the 50s.
    or is that your solution to teenage knife crime? ‘more jumpers!’
    yes people play football without council help or interference, but its clear that this is an initiative to increase participation, hardly a bad thing, and it would obviously need someone to run it.

  • Julian

    Artiford, Do try and remove yourself from the 80′s!
    Today we need ‘facilitators’ to set up the barbed wire enclosures for fights to the death with 20cm kitchen knives.
    Winner keeps the ipods and mobile phones.

  • xpress

    I hope the committment (sic) doesn’t include qualifications in written English.

  • Penny

    The job advert is for a youth worker – somebody who is trained to run things like youth clubs and after-school activities for children and teenagers who would otherwise be roaming the streets unsupervised. These are services offered to children who are not yet taxpayers, and are a perfectly valid way to spend taxpayers’ money. Every pound spent on services for children represents a saving of many pounds that will not need to be spent on the welfare and criminal justice systems in the future.

  • zardoz

    If it’s a good idea for someone to organize street football, why don’t we make it a condition of those council tenants who get their rents for free to do the organizing? It’s their children who benefit the most. It’s not a function of government.

  • zardoz

    “Surely with all the hype about knife crime and obiesity around at the minute positions like this are a good idea?”
    Oh, so it’s a good idea to base government policy on HYPE is it?

  • FatBigot

    I was flabbergasted when I read the original post, to find people supporting this non-job makes me almost speechless. But not quite speechless.
    What is “street football”? Answer: children kicking a ball around
    Is “street football” currently an organised activity? Answer: Of course not, it’s children kicking a ball around.
    Who takes part in “street football”? Answer: children who want to kick a ball around.
    Who does not take part in “street football”? Answer: children who do not want to kick a ball around.
    Should more people take part in “street football”? Answer: only if they want to.
    For goodness sake, it’s children kicking a ball around. It has nothing at all to do with central or local government. It is children kicking a ball around.

  • JohnHL

    There are a few references to the project in Google. e.g.:
    http://www.youngscotwow.org/activity/details.wow?id=a79dea95-e40c-4a5e-b95b-9a5c00ecfd6f
    gives a brief description, which includes the term “portable pitch” !!! Also : “no need to book. Just turn up and play”.
    Maybe they do need some sort of coordinator, but it hardly seems to justify a full-time appointment. Its a safe bet that there are plenty employees engaged in pointless activities that could be ditched to allow this coordination to be carried out by an existing member of staff.
    It is, after all, just a series of informal football games – as others have pointed out in previous comments.

  • Penny

    Maybe you’d like to volunteer to have unsupervised children ‘just kicking a ball around’ outside your house? If the said ball then veered in the direction of your car you’d be the first to complain.

  • Nick Cullen

    Has this post been sanctioned ny the Scottish FA? After all they are responsible for grass roots football in Scotland.If Moray Council are organising un official football tournaments it could seriously prejudice their chances of playing football on a Sunday.
    Wait ’til next year when other posts will appear to play cricket, rugby, hockey etc etc all requiring an individual specialist
    Then Moray can set up their own Community Sports section with a highly paid Executive Committee who will liaise with Sport Scotland who also have highly paid officers to oversee sports participation in Moray.
    Can I have the Main Man’s post as I’ve got loads of sport and managerial experience but I’m a bit light on B*** S***
    In 1983 it was called Action Sport (per the Sports Council)

  • Artiford

    Zardoz – the TPA’s whole site is based around hype, Picking occasional examples to illustrate their ‘point’. So I thought it a good place to start.
    Personally I don’t think ideas should be based on hype, but unfortunately thats the way politics works. Largely due to groups like the TPA and their comments in the popular media.
    ‘Council worker goes on holiday while britain crumbles’ shocker!

  • Richard

    “Jumpers for goalposts? try and remove your self from the 50s.”
    Actually my friends and I were using jumpers and bags for goalposts in the 1990s and 2000s. In fact we had a kickaround on Monday this week and used them.