Cups and Competitions Officer - London Football Association

Cups and Competitions Officer – London Football Association

Posted under Management / Administration on November 2nd, 2016

Job Description
Purpose:
To plan, manage and effectively deliver the London FA Cup competition and festivals programme.
To deliver the club and leagues affiliation and sanctioning process, supporting the delivery of the London FA strategic plan and National Game Strategy in partnership with colleagues and key stakeholders

Responsibilities:
Co-ordinate the County Cup and festivals Entry forms as part of the Affiliation process, cross-checking entry forms for discrepancies.
Manage and administer all County Cup Competitions and festivals in liaison with London FA staff and relevant committee’s (fixtures, appointing referees, publishing results etc.)
Co-ordinate the draws for all County Cup Competitions and festivals
Issue and process payments for breaches of competitions rules.
Ensure the County Cup competitions and festivals operate within budget.
Liaise with key London FA staff and partners to effectively promote competitions and festivals programme .
Organise finals for all competitions, ensuring suitability of ground & deployment of volunteers
Work in partnership with leagues to appoint referees to County Cup Fixtures as directed by the London FA.
Adopt innovative approaches to administering the County Cup Competitions and festivals – reducing the burden on volunteers/use of IT to facilitate activities.
Lead the delivery of Youth League Sanctioning and Youth football clubs (working with Head of Governance and Investigation and Customer support officers), process for all London FA sanctioned competitions.
Provide administrative support to London FA Run leagues/competitions – fixtures/results/referees/booking venues.
Work with our wider sanctioned competitions/leagues to develop materials and templates to facilitate the smooth running of their competition
Collate information in partnership with the workforce development officer on the coverage of registered referees in 9v9 and 11v11
Play an active role in the development and delivery of the London FA strategic Plan.
Attend meetings as appropriate to the role.
To provide general administration support to the team in order to assist with other duties including general enquiries, individual player registration, updating and maintaining player records, updating suspensions and taking payments.
To run workshops to support clubs and leagues affiliation and sanctioning process this would include WGS training.
Commitment to on-going professional development.