Careers
In this section:
INTERNSHIP PROGRAMME
Twice a year (September and February) we take on two trainees who join us for a twelve-month Internship Programme. During their year with us they work alongside the full time Instructors and undergo a wide range of training courses. To download information on the Stormforce Coaching Internship Programme please click Internship Details.
FULL TIME/ PERMANENT POSITIONS
Chief Instructor (Southampton)
Details for this full time position and how to apply can be downloaded here.
FREELANCE INSTRUCTORS / SKIPPERS
A team of freelance and temporary Instructors complements our permanent staff. Some are full time professionals, and some teach sailing and power boating in their spare time as a second job. Most have been working with us for several years, some since the business started. While we are not actively looking for new Instructors it is inevitable that we will require new staff from time to time.
If you are interested in working with us then you will need as an absolute minimum;
- A friendly and patient approach to instructing.
- Extensive experience in the activity you instruct.
- The appropriate Instructor’s Qualification.
- Experience of instructing sailing, power boating or marine shorebased courses already.
- A reference from at least one other organisation you have taught for (ideally from a RYA Principal).
- An in date First Aid Certificate.
- Agreement to undergo a CRB / ISA check if we require one.
- UK/Euro nationality or appropriate work visa.
We do not generally recruit newly qualified Instructors (unless we have cherry picked them from our own Instructor Training Courses). We prefer Instructors who have some good coaching experience and are now ready to develop further. We look for Instructors who have a genuine background in, and love for their sport gained over many years.
While we have a great respect for those holding RYA/MCA Certificates of Competence (Coastal Skipper, Yachtmaster, Ocean and Advanced Power) and their abilities as skippers we prefer to use skippers who are also RYA Instructors for our charter, corporate and delivery work. This allows us to provide our customers with more experienced and higher qualified staff.
APPLYING FOR WORK
In the first instance please email recruitment@stormforce.biz with passport photo and CV.
Over the course of a year we receive a number of emails and letters from people seeking work, many of them do not tell us the basic information we need so here are a few tips for applying for work with us.
- Read our website before you apply, it will tell you a bit about us.
- An email application is great, generic group emails sent to the whole industry are treated as junk.
- Applications sent by parents on behalf of their family are among the worst we receive. Please don’t apply on behalf of you kids- it is cringe worthy and embarrassing. For those who can’t imagine this, it does happen.
- Send it to our recruitment email address not any of our other email address, it shows you have read the information on this site.
- Unless you are applying for a full time position we have advertised (with an application form) attach a CV.
- Don’t be shy about giving us detail, we like to know your DoB, address, marital status, contact details etc. (We sometimes have customers who request instructors in a specific age bracket or gender).
- Only list the highest qualification in each discipline.
- Give us the dates you passed your courses.
- Give us an idea of how much you have used your Instructor qualifications (or admin/sales/maintenance skills if applying for such positions).
- For Instructor positions include a summary of your sailing/power boating, skippering, racing and coaching experience, try to use bullet points. Be specific (i.e. "ten years racing experience" tells us very little where as "eight years occasional GP14 dinghy club racing as helm" or "two years of weekly inshore Solent yacht racing as sail trimmer" tells us what we need to know.
- For Instructor positions keep the non-marine related work experience very brief. For other positions keep the summary of work relevant.
- Do not give us a personal profile, (we have yet to meet an applicant who describes him/herself as lazy, de motivated and dishonest).
- Provide a photo (we don't choose staff on their appearance but it is a lot easier to remember who is who when we can put a face to a name).
- Remember if you leave us to guess the facts we will move to the next application, so give us the information we need.
- For full time positions keep the CV to two pages, for freelance positions one or two pages should suffice. Any more and you have given us unnecessary detail, which is likely to send us off to sleep.
- If you choose to put referees on your CV we will assume we may contact them. Ensure they are relevant (not family or non marine training).
- Tell us if you are planning on taking further courses in the near future.
- We need staff that have a good attention to detail, follow the above steps and you will have already beaten the large percentage of applicants.