Do you love cricket?Good with kids?

Then you're in the right place. Smash360 exists to help kids fall in love with cricket, and to give the coaches who make that happen a real career out of it.

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The pay was designed by our coaches.

A coaching year

Retainer plus commission

A Smash360 salary

The dips are the school holidays. Same work, same coach, same year.

Smash360 right now

6Locations

534Players a week

9Coaches on contract

Coaching at

Laerskool George Suid
George Voorbereidingskool
Glenwood House School
Waterkloof House Preparatory School
Laerskool Hennopspark
Pretoria High School Old Boys Club

Not near one of these? Apply anyway. Right now we coach in Centurion, and across the Garden Route in George, Mossel Bay and Knysna. 2027 is a big expansion year for us and we're pushing hardest across Gauteng. New academies open where the right coach is.

The coaching

We build the method.You bring the magic.

Turn up at one of our sessions and you should find smiles, a fair amount of noise, and kids playing with their mates. There's a method under it. Every session is built on the Smash360 anchors, so while they're laughing they're genuinely getting better, and they never need to know that's what's happening.

A Smash360 coach crouched at eye level, talking a group of young players through a drill.

The programme was written by three former professional cricketers, and we'll teach you all of it before your first session.

Behind Smash360

Built by peoplewho know the game.

They wrote the programme you'd be coaching, and it's their business. If a salary has to land on the same day every month, it matters who's standing behind it.

Dwaine Pretorius

Andrea Agathangelou

AB de Villiers

The money

Same month.Same salary.

Our own coaches asked for this. The rate per session was never really the problem, the school holidays were.

CSA Level 1

fromR8 500a month

CSA Level 2

fromR10 000a month

Floors, not offers. Nothing comes off for kit, insurance or admin, and you're an employee on payroll rather than a contractor sending invoices.

December paysthe same as March.

Holiday camps run through the breaks and coaching them is part of the job, so the same amount lands on the same day all twelve months.

On top of that

Mornings are yours.

Once you're running the afternoons, a preschool group is a straight 50/50 split with no cap. Every group you bring in is half yours, on top of the salary.

The Smash Garden Route coaching team in Smash kit at a school venue.

The Smash Garden Route team

The week

Afternoons are the job.Mornings are yours.

Weekday afternoons, 13:00 to 18:00, are what you're employed to do. The odd Saturday with the older groups sits inside your salary.

Morning

Afternoon

The job, salaried Optional, 50/50 Now and then

The path

This doesn't have to bea side hustle.

Start with a group. Then see where you can take it.

01Junior coach
02Smash360 coach
03Head coach
04Academy manager
05Multi-academy manager
06Regional leadership

Your first group is just the start.

The standard

We can teach youthe Smash360 way.

Someone who's brilliant with four-year-olds and someone who's brilliant with an under-15 squad are two completely different coaches, and we need both.

You can hold a group of kids and keep them moving for a full hour
You turn up on time, every week
You'll run the Smash360 method first and add your own coaching once you know it
Your own reliable transport
Police clearance, or you're willing to go and get it
Afrikaans is a real advantage at some venues

No CSA level, or never coached at all? Apply anyway. If you're good with kids and reliable, you'd start on the younger groups alongside an experienced coach.

That's the job.Fancy it?

Three questions to start. About five minutes.

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The detail

Everything else.If you want it.

What do you handle, and what do I handle?

You coach. We do the rest. Registrations, bookings, arrears and the awkward messages about money all run through the parent app, so the only conversation you'll ever have with a parent is about their child's cricket. There's an age-banded curriculum from three years upward and the session pack is written before you get to the field. We provide the equipment.

What happens after I apply?

A person reads every application. If you clear the standard, expect a WhatsApp or a call within a few working days. Then a conversation about where you are and what's open near you, then we take you through the Smash360 methodology and the app before you run a single session. When a group opens up near you, we come to you first.

How long before I get a group?

A strong application gets you near the front of the queue. What we can't do is invent a group before one opens up near you, and that can be a few weeks or it can be a season. We'd rather tell you that now than leave you hanging.

I've never coached, or I have no qualification. Worth applying?

Yes, as long as you're good with kids and reliable. Every coach goes through the Smash360 methodology with us anyway, so we'd rather find someone naturally good with children and train them properly than hire a certificate that can't hold a group.

I coach around another job. Is that a problem?

Not if your afternoons are genuinely free. The salaried work runs 13:00 to 18:00 every weekday, so it sits nicely around teaching, studying or a morning shift. If your own day only ends at five, the afternoons are the sticking point, and they're the one part we can't move around.

Am I employed, or paid per session?

Employed. You're an employee of Smash360 on a monthly salary, not a contractor invoicing us per session and not employed by the school. Your full terms are in the contract you sign.

What happens to the information I put on the form?

We use it to assess your application and contact you about coaching work, and nothing else. We don't sell it and we don't share it. You can ask us to delete it at any time by emailing info@smashcricket.co.za. The full detail is in the privacy notice.