Olympic Operations Officer – Royal Yacht Association

The RYA offers a range of benefits including: a total annual leave package of 28 days (plus public holidays), a generous personal pension scheme (RYA will contribute 10%), life insurance, access to discounts through Sodexo, employee health assistance programme, trained mental health first aiders.

The purpose of the role is to provide World Class administrative support to organise and implement the RYA’s Olympic Programme – the British Sailing Team (BST) and British Sailing Squad (BSS). The RYA must continue to provide the best coaching and support system to the BST & BSS in order to stay ahead of other countries worldwide and remain as the World’s No.1 sailing nation.

Reporting to the Olympic Operations Manager, the Officer is responsible for supporting BST & BSS programmes. This including UK-based training and international regattas, administering the programmes back-of-house operations, and supporting preparations in the Olympic Games sailing venue. 

The role is a combination of office-based at the RYA offices in Hamble (typically 2 days per week) and home working. However, there is a regular need to attend meetings at the Weymouth & Portland training base or elsewhere outside the office.  Consideration will be given to applicants living in Dorset to have their principal place of work at the training base rather than in Hamble.

The role involves working with a wide range of personnel connected to the BST programme, including athletes, coaches, sport science & technical team members and external stakeholders. It will also involve overseas travel in support of Paris 2024 and LA 2028 Olympic preparations.

The successful candidate should be skilled at multi-tasking and have strong administration skills with outstanding levels of attention to detail which are not sacrificed during periods of high work volume. The successful candidate should be comfortable working independently as well as part of a team within a busy, dynamic and fast-moving environment. The successful candidate should also have experience of event planning and organising international travel and logistics including flights, travel and accommodation. Knowledge of international shipping and freight would be advantageous.

E-Commerce Trading Executive – Tottenham Hotspur

Founded in 1882, Tottenham Hotspur Football Club is an English Premier League Club, based in North London, with a global following of millions.

Led by the late great Bill Nicholson, the Club became the first in England to win the League and FA Cup Double in 1961, and the first in the UK to win a European Trophy two years later. Spurs has since been home to some of the game’s great entertainers, including Jimmy Greaves, Glenn Hoddle, Paul Gascoigne, David Ginola, Gareth Bale, Heung-Min Son and Harry Kane.

In April 2019, the Club opened an iconic new stadium that sits at the heart of a £1billion sport-led regeneration of North Tottenham. The stadium is the largest football club stadium in London and is a multi-use venue with the ability to host a variety of events 365 days a year, including NFL, boxing, rugby, concerts and other major events, plus visitor attractions including Stadium Tours and the Dare Skywalk.

The stadium development scheme has to date created more than 4,000 new jobs for local people, with circa £300m pumped into the local economy each year.

Tottenham Hotspur has:

  • A clear strategy to develop talent from within its Academy, showcased by a strong track record of Academy players graduating to the first-team squad.
  • A £100m state-of-the-art Training Centre that supports the Club’s ambition to attract, develop and retain the best talent.
  • Commercial partnerships with globally-recognised brands including AIA Group Limited (AIA), one of the world’s leading providers of life insurance services, and Nike, the world’s leading sports footwear and apparel company
  • A commitment to minimizing its environmental impact across Club operations, being named as the greenest in the Premier League for the past three years. Tottenham Hotspur is a signatory of the UN Sports for Climate Action Framework, committing to halve carbon emissions by 2030 and become net zero carbon by 2040
  • An award-winning Foundation that is renowned for creating opportunities to help enhance the lives of people in its local community through education, employment, health and social inclusion programmes.

This position sits within the retail operation which is based in Enfield and includes frequent visits to Lilywhite House.

The club runs a fully in-house retail and events operation, which includes buying of merchandise, running of stadium experiences including stadium tours, managing multiple physical shops, licensing of products and running of online platforms. The Ecommerce Trading Executive will be based at the Enfield office and will focus on ensuring the presentation of all content on all ecommerce websites is perfect and meets requirements relating to quality and site performance.

JOB PURPOSE

The Ecommerce Trading Executive is responsible for the upkeep of all products and promotions across the online shop.

They are also responsible for the content on the Experiences website, and responsible for the setup of the products on that site in line with requirements from the operation.

The Ecommerce Trading Executive will also share responsible for copy, all images, and all pages across the Online Shop. Products are sorted in order to ensure highest possible conversion, and to pick up any issues or bugs with the website.

They will also manage other elements like merchandising on the site, working with third parties to innovate the website, setup in the CMS, on site product search as well as on site promotions.

Key Responsibilities

  • Responsible for supporting the eCommerce team in maximising sales and profit margins across the Online shop.
  • Growth of conversion across the Online Shop
  • Ensuring the brand guidelines are upheld on all eCommerce platforms
  • Ensure all information is correct across all ecommerce platforms such as customer service info and store location info
  • Redirects – Managing redirects across the Online Shop.
  • Responsible for the updating of META data in addition to the creation of product descriptions on the Online Shop
  • Create personalised experiences using Dynamic Yield to improve the customer journey and maximise sales.
  • Ownership of social-proofing across the site to maximise conversion.
  • Create geo-targeted promotions to grow sales and conversion in key markets, reporting on promotion results to the wider team.
  • Ownership of creating fully responsive landing pages for promotions and featured ranges across the Online shop.
  • Product priority – making sure that products are arranged in the right order on the Online Shop to support the customer experience.
  • Report any website issues to the Ecommerce Trading Manager and/or to our systems supplier.
  • Responsible for viewing heatmaps on the Online Shop as well as viewing customer sessions and feedback learning and recommendations to the wider ecommerce team.
  • Backend setup and maintenance of settings such as pre-order product lists and customisation lists for replica shirts
  • Responsible for product badging and all other on-site visual merchandising such as on-site search
  • Work along side operations and optimisation to conduct split testing and personalisation on site
  • Reporting key metrics using Google Analytics as well as other internal based reporting systems.
  • Drive sales and conversion of our global Supporters Clubs.
  • Responsible for maintaining site speed for the Online shop
  • Responsible for all back-end setup including but not limited to on site promotions
  • Responsible for utilising the On-site Search tool to ensure key search terms are returning relevant results for customers and communicating to the Buying team any search trends.
  • Managing the Amazon branded Spurs Shop which includes product upload, maintenance as well as identifying opportunities to grow sales revenue through Amazon Marketplace.
  • Ownership of the day-to-day tasks managing products on any other Marketplaces the Club launch in the future.
  • Responsible for providing the Ecommerce team with reporting key metrics from all Marketplaces.
  • Supporting Customer Care with customer queries including live chat enquiries.

Personal Attributes

  • Thinks ahead, generates ideas, challenges the status quo
  • Values & respects others, builds relationships, collaborates
  • Gets things done, delivers to high standards, takes responsibility
  • Strong communication and interpersonal skills
  • High attention to detail
  • Highly organised, proactive and self-sufficient

Skills & Experience

  • Commercially aware
  • Excellent time manager
  • Excellent spelling and grammar
  • Knowledge of web content management systems
  • Good experience of using Microsoft Office software (word, excel)
  • Understanding of SEO
  • Understanding of HTML/CSS
  • Comfortable writing briefs to external clients for on-site developments.
  • Computer literate with the ability to learn computer systems
  • Experience working in a similar eCommerce or digital role
  • Passion for eCommerce / Digital
  • Ability to connect performances both on and off the pitch to retail performance.

Product Manager, Content Distribution – DAZN

As a Product Manager for DAZN, you will be involved in the analysis and continuous development of the VOD Content Distribution platform serving our digital video service globally across PC, mobile, tablets, game consoles, connected TVs, Blu-ray players, and set-top boxes. You will collaborate with teams across product, design, operations, finance, marketing, commercial and the executive team to define a product roadmap and deliver it with internal and external development teams to grow the business.

A successful candidate will be highly analytical, resourceful, customer focused, team oriented, and will have an ability to work independently under time constraints to meet deadlines. They will have a proven track record in taking on end-to-end ownership and successfully delivering results in a fast-paced and dynamic business environment

HERE’S A LITTLE MORE ABOUT US…

At DAZN, we bring ambition to life. We are innovators, game-changers and pioneers. There are no limits to what we can achieve. So if you want to push boundaries and help change the world, DAZN is the place to be.

As part of our team, everyone has the opportunity to make their mark and the power to make change happen. We’re doing things no-one has done before, giving fans and customers access to sport anytime, anywhere. We’re using world-class technology to transform sports and revolutionise the industry and we’re not going to stop.

Because for us, it’s all about Limitless Ambition – never settling, always restless, always wanting more for our customers. We’re growing fast and have made a big impact so far, and that’s just the beginning. There’s so much we can do. Working with us is exciting, empowering and truly global.

If you’re ambitious, inventive, passionate, brave and supportive, then you’re the kind of person who’s going to succeed at DAZN. Come and join our team.

This role is based in Leeds (hybrid working available). 

Benefits include access to DAZN, 25 days’ annual leave (increasing by 3 days after 3 years), annual performance-related bonus, private medical insurance, life assurance, pension contributions up to 5%, family friendly community, free access for you and one other to our workplace mental health platform app (Unmind), learning and development resources, opportunity for flexible working (remove if role is 100% office based with shifts e.g. Broadcast Ops), and access to our internal speaker series and events.

As our new Product Manager – Content Distribution, you’ll have the opportunity to:

  • Own the VOD Content Distribution theme for DAZN’s Operating Tools and Systems, you will be responsible for leading how DAZN distributes our VOD media content and it’s metadata to our partners.
  • Work with operational teams to shape requirements and define experiences that ensure DAZN’s on-demand content is delivered without restriction.
  • Own the strategy for driving improvements to our current processes.
  • Constantly analysing how we can simplify the business.
  • Able to liaise with external suppliers to achieve short term projects
  • Able to present to senior management from DAZN and 3rd parties
  • Driven by personal insight, analytics and metadata trends, and use these to drive continuous improvements
  • Obsession on metrics and KPIs
  • Contribute to the development of detailed product requirements documents and technical specifications
  • Work closely with the other DOTS and DAZN teams to ensure all dependencies, and holistic experiences are captured.
  • Work closely with Operational Delivery teams to ensure that workflow and process changes are delivered smoothly and in a timely manner

You’ll be set up for success if you have:

  • 1-3 years experience writing high quality user stories and acceptance criteria in an agile environment
  • Excellent program organisation, product management, and coordination skills
  • Strengths in problem solving, issue-resolution, ability to work in a deadline-driven work environment, attention to detail, and ability to multitask
  • Demonstrated ability to understand and discuss technical concepts, manage trade-offs and evaluate opportunistic new ideas with internal and external partners
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills with demonstrated experience engaging and influencing senior management
  • Understanding of the issues surrounding delivering on-demand video planning and distribution
  • Understanding of the challenges of launching products in multiple markets
  • Absolute passion for innovation
  • Experience of managing 3rd party partners and suppliers
  • Background of delivering business value; improve user and customer experience and providing maximum return on investment
  • Pragmatic approach to feature prioritisation and compromises between designs and technical capabilities
  • Experience of agile methodologies

Even better if you have:

  • A degree, MBA or equivalent, relevant ongoing training and development
  • General interest in sport a real advantage

Who we are and what we do:

* Headquartered in the UK with 2,200 employees located in over 25 countries

* Home to DAZN – the largest, fastest-growing global sports streaming service live in over 200 countries and territories. You can subscribe to our global service at www.dazn.com

* We guarantee affordable access on most connected devices including smart TVs, set-top boxes, streaming sticks, smartphones, tablets, PCs and game consoles

* We work across every aspect of the way fans engage with sports; from production, through to content distribution and commercialisation

We are committed to fostering an inclusive environment, both inside and outside of our walls, that values equality and diversity – where everyone can contribute at the highest level and have their voices heard. For us, this means hiring and developing the best people across all races, ethnicities, religions, age groups, sexual orientations and gender identities. We actively

discourage any photos, personal letters or disclosure of any information that concerns other information than your professional experience.

Corporate Communications and Content Manager – LTA

This role is an exciting opportunity for an outstanding communications professional to play a part in helping the LTA achieve its vision of ‘tennis opened up’, and through our work to make tennis relevant, accessible, welcoming, and enjoyable, help us to ensure it is a sport that can be played by anyone, no matter their age, gender, background, or ability.

Tennis is a sport that is woven into the fabric of the nation, and as the national governing body the LTA is at the heart of that – from inspiring and engaging the millions of passionate fans who follow leading British players and world class tournaments, through to supporting the grassroots of the sport which reach into local communities across Britain to help get the nation active and deliver amazing physical and mental health benefits to those involved.

The Corporate Communications & Content Manager will play a key role within our Corporate Affairs team in devising and delivering creative communications programmes to protect and promote the reputation of the LTA, creating reputation-driving content and working across the business to manage proactive communications activity which promotes all areas of the LTA’s work.

This role will work closely with the Brand Communications Manager (Brand Marketing) to also support their delivery of brand-relevant, engaging communications for both B2B and B2C audiences, that increase levels of fan engagement, drive participation, and win back lapsed players.

In line with our values, we are looking for a talented and driven individual who can bring teamwork, passion, integrity, inclusion, and excellence to this role. If this, is you, and you want to join our journey to open up tennis in Britain, then we look forward to receiving your application.

The LTA, through its vision “Tennis Opened up”, is committed to creating a diverse environment where all colleagues feel included and a strong sense of belonging. We are proud to actively invite applications from all candidates who meet the essential criteria and can work in the UK, and we commit that everyone will receive equal consideration for employment irrespective of your disability, ethnicity, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity status, or age. 

We also operate a flexible working environment where all colleagues can discuss their working needs with their manager or the People Team at any time.

Account Executive, Operations, Sports Management – IMG

IMG is a global leader in sports, fashion, events and media. The company manages some of the world’s greatest athletes and fashion icons; owns and operates hundreds of live events annually; and is a leading independent producer and distributor of sports and entertainment media. IMG also specializes in licensing, sports training and league development. IMG is a subsidiary of Endeavor, a global entertainment, sports and content company.

On behalf of more than 200 clients across sports and entertainment, IMG negotiates media rights and produces and arranges for distribution of sports and entertainment content to major global broadcasters and platforms. Our content originates from entertainment companies, major sports leagues, sporting events and more.

Key Accountabilities:

  • Responsible for supporting multiple key accounts with a variety of tasks across the IMG Media sports portfolio to achieve the departments’ objective of creating best in class client servicing
  • Work with multiple areas of the business on a day to day basis including – finance, legal, creative, strategy, production, distribution, Endeavor Analytics and others
  • Work closely with the Heads of Sports Management to ensure key objectives are met
  • To learn and develop expert-level operational skills across our key client portfolio to ensure all accounts are optimised to deliver against key business objectives
  • Assist in the day to day management of tasks across a number of accounts – working with a variety of Account Managers, Directors and Vice Presidents
  • Assist and track the role out of key initiatives within Sports Management team
  • Work with commercial team to created sales collateral and market reports
  • Assist with broadcaster liaison planning reports across key clients – pre and post event
  • Attend meetings and create detailed notes to summarise and distribute internally and externally
  • Learn and train users on the internal systems and tools – Stadium, Torch
  • Assist in creation of key client presentations and documentation
  • Develop clear and concise internal and external presentations/reports
  • Support a wide range of departments and seniority within the company from shared services up to EVP level
  • Attend events to support with a multitude of tasks
  • You may also be required to carry out any other duties which are within the scope and purpose of the job

Required Knowledge and Experience:

  • Knowledge of the media industry
  • Ability to learn and closely follow business practices, resources and personnel within IMG Media
  • Good commercial acumen
  • Numerate and analytical in order to understand and interpret data
  • Ability to present at all levels both internally and externally
  • Experience achieving long-range objectives and implementing the strategies and actions to achieve them
  • Experience of working in sports/entertainment media
  • Very strong communication and interpersonal skills
  • Excellent relationship building and networking skills
  • Excellent time management skills, ability to work calmly under pressure whilst meeting deadlines
  • Team player and a self-starter
  • Committed to client service excellence and quality business relationships
  • Organisational skills that enable the individual to prioritise a varied work-load. Priorities will often change to dictate focus of work – the candidate must have the ability to handle competing demands and last-minute changes effectively
  • Excellent knowledge of MS Office software, including Word, Excel, Outlook, Teams and PowerPoint

Working Conditions 

  • This is a permanent position.
  • The role is based in Chiswick Park, London.
  • Working hours are 9:00 – 17:00, Monday to Friday.
  • Occasional travel and weekend work may be required

Sponsorship Activation Manager – Sky

This is an exciting opportunity to join us and play a key role in leading Sky Media’s Activation department. The Activation team sits within Sky Media’s Planning Division and are responsible for the creation, sale and delivery of award-winning partnerships aligned to Sky’s Wholly-owned channels (including the likes of Sky Max, Sky Atlantic Sky Docs, Sky Arts, Sky Cinema, Sky News and Sky Sports), through content sponsorship, IP & Licensing, content creation, events and experiences, competitions and promotions.

What you’ll do: 

  • Lead and inspire a dedicated team (1 x Activation Executive and 1 x Activation Assistant) to create and deliver award-winning Entertainment and News Sponsorships through standard setting, training, coaching & career development planning, delegation and empowerment.
  • Create innovative and industry-leading cross-platform sponsorship sales assets for all relevant programming/content across your allotted Sports channels and platforms.
  • Evolve and implement processes for Account Management across your team, ensuring Sky Media delivers a best-in-class experience for every sponsor and media agency.
  • Create and execute bespoke activation campaigns for key partners across your allotted channels and platforms, ensuring their sponsorship delivers on campaign KPI’s, from brand-building through to sales.
  • Take the lead on all deal renewals across your allotted portfolio of channels and platforms, ensuring the opportunities we surface for our clients and agencies offer Sky Media the best chance to retain our key partnerships.

What you’ll bring: 

  • Experience at Exec level or above, within the sponsorship and/or advertising industry.
  • Detailed knowledge of the broadcast sponsorship market.
  • An in-depth knowledge of how television, digital and social are traded.
  • Experience in people management, enabling you to build and maintain a proactive and highly motivated team that’s renowned as best in class within the sponsorship industry.
  • Demonstrable account management experience and a track record of building and developing long-term relationships with key senior clients and media agency decision makers/stakeholders.
  • Excellent communications, numerical, analytical and presentation skills.

Sky Media

Sky Media is the advertising sales arm of Sky, offering businesses of all shapes and sizes an exciting array of opportunities on TV, online and on the go. Reaching over 95% of the UK population, Sky Media represents all of Sky’s channels and sites including Sky Sports, Sky News, Sky One, Sky Cinema, Sky Arts, Sky Atlantic and Sky Witness. Sky Media also sells on behalf of a range of renowned broadcasters and channels including Channel 5, Discovery, National Geographic, MTV, FOX, Nickelodeon and Comedy Central.

The Rewards:

There’s a reason people can’t stop talking about #LifeAtSky. Our great range of rewards really are something special, here are just a few:

  • Sky Q, for the TV you love all in one place
  • A generous pension package
  • Private healthcare
  • Discounted mobile and broadband
  • Access a wide range of exclusive Sky VIP rewards and experiences

How you’ll work:

We know the world has changed, and we want to offer our employees the chance to collaborate at our unique office spaces, whilst enjoying the convenience of working from home.

We’ve adopted a hybrid working approach to give more flexibility on where and how we work. You’ll find out more about what this means for this role during the recruitment process.

Your office base:

Osterley:

Our Osterley Campus is a 10-minute walk from Syon Lane train station. Or you can hop on one of our free shuttle buses that run to and from Osterley, Gunnersbury, Ealing Broadway and South Ealing tube stations. There’s also plenty of bike shelters and showers.

On campus, you’ll find 13 subsidised restaurants, cafes, and a Waitrose. You can keep in shape at our subsidised gym, catch the latest shows and movies at our cinema, get your car washed and even get pampered at our beauty salon.

Inclusion:

We take pride in our approach to diversity and inclusion: we’ve been recognised by The Times and Stonewall for this, and we’ve committed £30million to support the fight against racial injustice. We’ve also set ambitious targets for increasing ethnic diversity and representation throughout our organisation.

At Sky we don’t just look at your CV. We’re more focused on who you are and your potential. We also know that everyone has a life outside work, So we’re happy to discuss flexible working.

And we’ll do everything we can to support you during your application. If you need us to make any adjustments to our recruitment process, speak to our recruitment team who will be happy to support you.

Just so you know: if your application is successful, we’ll ask you to complete a criminal record check. And depending on the role you have applied for and the nature of any convictions you may have, we might have to withdraw the offer.

Why wait? 

Apply now to build an amazing career and be part of a brilliant team. We can’t wait to hear from you.

To find out more about working with us, search #LifeAtSky on social media. A job you love to talk about.

Planning Lead – British Cycling

If you’re a confident and experienced marketeer with awesome organisational skills, this could be the new challenge you’re looking for. We are recruiting for a planning lead to cover a period of maternity leave, with plenty going on at British Cycling that you will be at the heart of.

With eight cycling disciplines and lots of moving parts we’re after a safe pair of hands who will be able to get up to speed during what will be a busy (and exciting) summer. Riding bikes is a year-round activity though, so there will be plans for you to create and activate as the seasons change and we continue to lead the sport and inspire our communities.

Tell me more

If you’ve ever worked agency-side, think of this as a production role with a strong creative twist. This means that as well as overseeing how our campaign roadmap unfolds in order to best deliver on strategic objectives, you’ll be getting stuck in to work with colleagues from content, commercial, comms and marketing to turn briefs into hard-working activations.

As such we’re after a brilliant collaborator with experience of working in dynamic environments. You’ll need to be able to zoom out and see the bigger picture, while being happy to closely critique briefs and creative assets in order to provide clear guidance and maintain brand integrity.

You don’t need to cycle regularly to apply, but an appreciation of the power of the bike and what it can help us to achieve would of course be a powerful ally. 

All we need from you is…

  • Strong project management and organisational skills
  • Ability to handle multiple ongoing projects and prioritise tasks
  • Ability to think strategically and plan high profile multi-channel campaigns
  • A positive can-do attitude, capable of winning trust and selling ideas
  • Proven experience of working in a professional role within a fast-paced and wide-ranging environment
  • A passion and interest in sport/cycling
  • Demonstrable experience of working with brand guidelines
  • Excellent attention to detail required
  • Digitally aware, with a current knowledge of trends and tools
  • Educated to degree level, or equivalent relevant qualification

To apply, please complete the online application form.

We welcome applications from all sections of the community, regardless of age, race, colour, sex, marital status, religion, ethnic origin, nationality, disability or sexual orientation.  Any appointment will be made on merit alone.  For more information on British Cycling please visit the following page www.britishcycling.org.uk

Head of Communications – Leicestershire CCC

About Leicestershire County Cricket Club

Leicestershire County Cricket Club (LCCC) is one of eighteen first-class county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales. It represents the historic county of Leicestershire as well as being representative of the county of Rutland. The Club’s limited overs team is called the Leicestershire Foxes. 

One of the Club’s aims is to make its county ground the “premium Leicestershire outdoor venue” for concerts and first-class events, with the delivery of an ambitious events programme once the pandemic is behind us. It also wants to improve the way it manages staff, create a diversity action plan, and host regular members’ forums. LCCC has a strong membership heritage and we are ambitious in our plans to increase our supporter base significantly over the next five years. With exciting expansion plans in place, this is a great but challenging time to join the Running Foxes. 

Job Role: Head of Communications

Reports to: Commercial Director

Job Profile: 

Leicestershire County Cricket Club are committed to delivering continuous improvement throughout all areas of the club, none more so than marketing and communication channels to our much-valued supporters, community and partners. As part of this continuous improvement and in order to complement our impressive off-field growth, we now have a rare opportunity for a professional, passionate and driven Head of Communications to join the club at this incredibly exciting time.

With overall responsibility for club Brand, Marketing and Communication activities, the successful candidate will work closely with all departmental leads in providing best-in-class communication services, ensuring our cricket, community and commercial footprints continue to grow.

Weekly hours: 

A total of 35 hours per week, with flexibility over specific days worked and an emphasis on matchdays during the cricket season.

Location:

Uptonsteel County Ground, Grace Road, Leicester, LE2 8AD

This is a unique opportunity, and we are looking for a unique individual to fill this newly created role.

The scope of the role is wide-ranging and will involve close liaison with our Cricket, Community, Commercial, Retail, Ticketing and Event teams, providing professional support services via marketing collateral, community reach and all appropriate media platform engagement.

Communication and Marketing experience is essential – Experience of the sports sector will be a distinct advantage, but key to success in this role will be Passion, professionalism and a determination to achieve targets and goals whilst comfortably managing more than one project simultaneously.

Closing Date for applications: 5.00pm on Friday 12th August 2022



Interviews: Asap after closing date.

Leicestershire County Cricket Club reserves the right to bring forward the closing date dependant on the number of applicants. 

We may not be able to reply to unsuccessful applicants due to the volume that is received. If you have not heard from us within four weeks of the closing date your application has been unsuccessful. 

Equal Opportunities in Employment Policy Statement

Leicestershire County Cricket Club will ensure that all existing and potential employees receive equal consideration, and is committed to the elimination of unlawful or unfair discrimination on the grounds of gender, race, disability, colour, ethnic and national origin, nationality, sexuality, marital status, responsibility for dependents, religion, trade union activity and age.

It is the intention of Leicestershire County Cricket Club that its work force, at all levels, should reflect the composition of the city’s population. To achieve this Leicestershire County Cricket Club will take active and positive steps to eliminate discrimination and to promote equality in employment.

Senior Vice President Group Communications – DAZN

Are you looking for a career-defining role in a company with big ambitions?

Do you love sport? Are you imaginative and a strong communicator? Do you like working independently but want to be part of a global team?

At DAZN, we are re-imagining the way people around the world enjoy sport. The only global, digital sports broadcaster, DAZN is live in over 200 countries and is a market-leader in Italy, Japan, DACH and Spain where we hold top tier domestic football rights. Few people in the UK know this.

Even fewer people know that we want to reinvigorate sports broadcasting by delivering the widest catalogue of sports contents to fans globally while creating a truly 360-degree interactive sports entertainment experience for customers. We are building a single, frictionless sports entertainment platform, where fans can watch, bet, play, share, socialise, and buy tickets, NFTs and merchandise.

Are you the person who can come and help us tell that story?

You will work directly with our Chief Communications Officer in a role that provides great visibility to the entire executive committee.

You will oversee the company’s proactive and reactive media engagement. You’ll partner with the local DAZN comms teams across our key markets in Europe, North America, and Asia to devise and execute our media agenda and support with the broader external communications strategy.

You’ll need to be naturally entrepreneurial, resourceful and a self-starter, as well as having impeccable writing skills (please send us some of your work), a network of UK-based business media contacts, and a flair for finding and telling stories.

As the main conduit between our business and the UK media, you’ll be the go-to person for all things finance, tech and business including expansion stories and key rights announcements.

Based in London, UK, your benefits include access to DAZN, 25 days’ annual leave (increasing by 3 days after 3 years), annual performance related bonus, private medical insurance, life assurance, pension contributions up to 5%, family friendly community, free access for you and one other to our workplace mental health platform app (Unmind), learning and development resources, opportunity for hybrid working and access to our internal speaker series and events.

Global Football Development Programme Coordinator – Tottenham Hotspur

Founded in 1882, Tottenham Hotspur Football Club is an English Premier League Club, based in North London, with a global following of millions. 

Led by the late great Bill Nicholson, the Club became the first in England to win the League and FA Cup Double in 1961, and the first in the UK to win a European Trophy two years later. Spurs has since been home to some of the game’s great entertainers, including Jimmy Greaves, Glenn Hoddle, Paul Gascoigne, David Ginola, Gareth Bale, Heung-Min Son and Harry Kane.

In April 2019, the Club opened an iconic new stadium that sits at the heart of a £1billion sport-led regeneration of North Tottenham. The stadium is the largest football club stadium in London and is a multi-use venue with the ability to host a variety of events 365 days a year, including NFL, boxing, rugby, concerts, and other major events, plus visitor attractions including Stadium Tours and the Dare Skywalk.

The stadium development scheme has to date created more than 4,000 new jobs for local people, with circa £300m pumped into the local economy each year.

Tottenham Hotspur has:

  • A clear strategy to develop talent from within its Academy, showcased by a strong track record of Academy players graduating to the first-team squad.
  • A £100m state-of-the-art Training Centre that supports the Club’s ambition to attract, develop and retain the best talent.
  • Commercial partnerships with globally recognised brands including AIA Group Limited (AIA), one of the world’s leading providers of life insurance services, and Nike, the world’s leading sports footwear and apparel company
  • A commitment to minimizing its environmental impact across Club operations, being named as the greenest in the Premier League for the past three years. Tottenham Hotspur is a signatory of the UN Sports for Climate Action Framework, committing to halve carbon emissions by 2030 and become net zero carbon by 2040
  • An award-winning Foundation that is renowned for creating opportunities to help enhance the lives of people in its local community through education, employment, health, and social inclusion programmes

Job Purpose

Coordinate the planning, preparation, and delivery of a holistic coaching programme specific to college students, ensuring that all programme operations, logistics and coaching are delivered in a professional manner and adhere to all relevant Club policies, operating procedures, and coaching philosophies. 

Establish and develop relationships with target groups (e.g., feeder schools, grassroots clubs, and the wider school network) to create awareness in the local area of the partnership between Notley High School and Tottenham Hotspur. This will help achieve the objective to increase participation within the school to enhance the progression of students into Braintree 6th Form.

Key Responsibilities

Coaching

  • Oversee the development and delivery of a structured coaching programme aligned with the Global Football Development coaching syllabus/coaching cycle, ensuring players are developed technically, tactically, physically, and socially based on the Global Football Development philosophy.
  • Observe coaching performance and provide effective feedback via PDR’s. Promote the Global Football Development pathway and actively identify and develop coaches who are ready to progress.
  • Coordinate college match days including staffing, squads, and officials.
  • Research current trends of coaching and continually look for ways to develop and improve your own coaching and best practice within all Global Football Development programmes.
  • Facilitate regular meetings with staff to ensure that priorities are clear and identified targets are being met.
  • Identify talented players and report via the Club TID process.
  • Conduct a coach mentoring program for student coaches involved in the CEC.
  • Build and maintain effective working relationships with a wide range of stakeholders including fellow coaches, college staff and students.
  • Create video/interactive content to support the engagement of students and recruitment/promotion of the programme.

College

  • Manage college recruitment promotion and talent identification process.
  • Drive the recruitment strategy to support the growth and development of the programme with the aspiration to attract higher quality players each year. This will include future planning for a potential girls only programme in 2023/24.
  • Attend weekly college programme operations meetings.
  • Provide classroom support as required.

Operations

  • Ensure that allocated staff hours are being used effectively.
  • Identify and notify GFD Operations of any potential staffing/scheduling concerns.
  • Provide monthly programme updates and case studies to Education & Football Development Centre Manager, highlighting student achievements, attendance figures and programme progression.
  • Provide “end of term” programme updates to Education & Football Development Centre Manager on overall progress and development within the programme and collective feedback from coaches and students on future direction of programmes.
  • Monitor programme performance against set targets and performance indicators.
  • Conduct generic and dynamic risk assessments as and when required.
  • Monitor kit & equipment regularly throughout the year and implement processes to minimise loss and/or damage of Club property.
  • Provide outstanding customer service to the partner by supporting them with their contractual needs and liaising directly with the Education & Football Development Centre Manager/GFD central team.
  • Coordinate the organisation of ad-hoc trips/events when required e.g., visits to the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, Training Centre etc.

General

  • Understand and comply with all relevant Club policies.
  • Understand and comply with the Club’s health and safety procedures.
  • Adhere to the Global Football Development Coaching Code of Conduct.
  • Promote, adhere to, and implement the Club’s Equality & Diversity Policy.
  • Attend all Global Football Development in-service training events as required.
  • Administer effective first aid and keep accurate records of any care provided to students.
  • Act as Head Coach (or support) International Group Days, Half Term and/or other Global Football Development programmes as required.
  • Undertake any other duties as may reasonably be expected.

Personal Attributes

  • Thinks ahead, generates innovative ideas
  • Values & respects others, builds relationships, collaborates
  • Gets things done, delivers to highest of standards, takes responsibility
  • Generate innovative ideas and strive to deliver the highest standard of service as possible.
  • Alert – attentive and observant, able to make decisions quickly and adapting to situations.
  • Proactive – think ahead rather than simply reacting in the moment.
  • Able to work independently, showing initiative, taking responsibility, and thinking logically.
  • Reliable – be able to commit to scheduled programmes and to be punctual.
  • Passionate – taking great pride and enthusiasm in your work.
  • Fantastic personal skills – good communicator: friendly, approachable, positive attitude.

Skills & Experience

Essential

Minimum UEFA B License (or working towards)

Level 2 FA Emergency First Aid in Football (EFAiF) Qualification

FA Safeguarding Children Qualification

Desired

UEFA A License

FA Youth Award

FA Advanced Youth Award (or working towards)

FA Talent ID Level 2

Experience of working within a school and/or college environment

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Right to Work Check

Safeguarding is fundamental to the success in all that we do. Successful candidates will undergo the following pre-employment checks prior to a start date being confirmed.

  1. Satisfactory right to work in the UK.
  2. Satisfactory written references (one must be from the most recent/current employer);
  3. Criminal record check’ (Enhanced DBS with Child/Adult Barring)
  4. Evidence of professional qualifications and education (where appropriate)
  5. Evidence of any Safeguarding training or certification (where appropriate)

All employment offers are conditional and based on the information being provided.