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About the Role

The Regional Area Phase Scout supports the club's recruitment activity within a designated phase and region, identifying, tracking, and assessing high-potential players. This role contributes to the early stages of the player pathway and supports the wider recruitment team in delivering the club's long-term strategy.

Responsibilities

• Carry out recruitment and scouting activity within the assigned phase, ensuring player identification aligns with the club's recruitment strategy and timelines.
• Work as part of a team of grassroots and academy scouts, contributing high-quality reporting and maintaining consistent standards across the phase.
• Support Development Centre activity and help identify high-potential players for progression into the Academy pathway.
• Follow weekly scouting schedules and fixture coverage to ensure strong visibility across key games, events, and talent areas within the phase.
• Maintain strong knowledge of the talent landscape relevant to the phase, including grassroots football, academies, private programmes, and non-league environments.
• Support tournament and event coverage, ensuring the club has exposure to key talent opportunities within the phase.
• Provide clear and well-structured player recommendations through detailed scouting reports and discussions.
• Contribute to player review meetings and support decision-making around trials, signings, and player retention.
• Track and monitor identified players within the phase, providing regular updates on their development and progression.
• Provide regular updates and insights to the Area Lead Scout and senior recruitment staff.
• Gather relevant background and character information on priority players to support recruitment decisions.
• Complete live and video scouting assignments to support wider player assessment processes.
• Maintain a strong understanding of current Academy players to support benchmarking and succession planning.
• Ensure all scouting activity is carried out in line with safeguarding, compliance, and club standards.

Requirements

• Extensive experience within an elite academy recruitment or scouting environment (Category 1–3 desirable).
• Proven track record in talent identification and player acquisition within a defined region.
• Strong understanding of grassroots, academy, and non-league football structures.
• In-depth knowledge of long-term player development and talent pathways.
• Minimum The Football Association Talent ID Level 2 (Level 3 desirable).
• Strong understanding of EPPP standards and recruitment processes.
• Advanced talent identification and player profiling across multiple age groups.
• Ability to lead regional recruitment planning and execution.
• High-level reporting, including clear articulation of player potential and risk.
• Strong organisational skills in managing fixtures, schedules, and scouting coverage.
• Competence in using scouting platforms, video analysis, and data systems.
• Ability to integrate live scouting, video, and background intelligence into decision-making.
• Strategic thinking with the ability to identify market opportunities and gaps.
• Strong collaboration with recruitment team, coaching staff, and MDT departments.
• Confident communicator, able to present insights and influence decision-making at senior level.
• Builds and maintains relationships with grassroots clubs, academies, and key stakeholders.
• High levels of professionalism, integrity, and reliability.
• Acts as the club’s primary representative within the regional football landscape.
• Builds strong external networks to enhance the club’s access to emerging talent.
• Strengthens the club’s reputation and visibility within grassroots and academy football.
• Provides market intelligence on competitors, talent trends, and regional dynamics.
• Ensures all external engagement reflects the club’s values, safeguarding standards, and professional image.
• Comply with all Club policies, including health and safety, data regulations and other legal, ethical and social requirements.
• Build and maintain good working relationships while maintaining a professional image.
• Keep confidential any information gained regarding the Club and its personnel.
• Always maintain a flexible approach to work.
• Understand, adhere to, and actively uphold all relevant safeguarding policies and procedures.
• Recognise signs of abuse or harm, respond appropriately, and report any concerns in a timely manner to the Club’s Safeguarding Team.

Skills

• Talent identification
• Player acquisition
• Player profiling
• Reporting
• Scouting
• Video analysis
• Data systems
• Strategic thinking
• Collaboration
• Communication
• Relationship building
• Professionalism
• Integrity
• Reliability
• Safeguarding

Location

• South London

Work Type

• Full-time

Experience Level

• Extensive experience within an elite academy recruitment or scouting environment

Education Level

• The Football Association Talent ID Level 2 (Level 3 desirable)

About the Company

• Brentford FC is a community-focused Premier League football club that prioritizes fans and financial sustainability while embracing calculated risks.
• The Club values development, inclusion, and innovative thinking, guided by principles of being progressive, humble, and respectful.
• Brentford FC believes a diverse workforce enhances idea generation, problem-solving, and growth.
• The Club plays in a new stadium located in vibrant west London, 15 minutes from Heathrow.
• Brentford FC is committed to its heritage while being excited about its future.

Equal Opportunity

• Brentford FC is proud to be an organisation that values equity, diversity and inclusion.
• We strive to create a culture that celebrates difference and ensures fairness, safety, representation, and belonging.
• We strongly encourage applications from people of all backgrounds — particularly those from ethnically diverse communities, women, LGBTQ+ individuals, and disabled people.
• We’re committed to a fair and inclusive recruitment process, with all decisions made based on merit and suitability — regardless of background or protected characteristic.
• Should you be selected for interview, we welcome the opportunity to discuss any specific arrangements, accommodations or reasonable adjustments you may require to be made.
• Brentford FC is fully committed to promoting equality, and to safeguarding the welfare of all children and adults at risk.
• Safeguarding is everyone’s responsibility and is a core part of the Club’s culture.
• All staff and volunteers share a collective duty to create and maintain a safe and supportive environment, both on and off the field.
• All staff are required to complete regular safeguarding training appropriate to their role.
• The successful candidate will be expected to understand, adhere to, and actively uphold all relevant safeguarding policies and procedures.
• Brentford FC operates safer recruitment practices.
• It is a criminal offence for a person barred from engaging in regulated activity to apply for a role that involves such activity.