Job Description
Job purpose
To proactively develop and maintain strategic technical partnerships to integrate education and information programmes into existing sport structures for the benefit of young and competitive athletes and athlete support personnel (ASP). This will also include wider prevention programmes for schools, colleges and universities.
Specifically, you will be a member of the Education Team who aims to promote and reinforce a culture of clean sport through effective partnerships. Creating and developing sustainable, impactful programmes that enable athletes and athlete support personnel to participate and compete in line with the values of sport whilst abiding by the anti-doping rules.
Person specification
Qualifications/experience/knowledge
• Educated to degree level – Education or related degree or post-graduate qualification essential
• Qualified teacher status or equivalent (e.g. experienced coach education trainer)
• Internal/ external verification qualification desirable
• Experience of working within a sports organisation, NGB or similar at middle management level or above
• Experience working in education, or an education related management role in a sport environment
• Demonstrable experience of relationship management to create educational programmes and associated resource development
• Demonstrable experience in creating education programmes, tools and resources to affect behaviour change
• Demonstrable experience of delivering training both direct to the learner and ‘train the trainer’ type delivery
• Experience of leading and managing people (office and remote workers)
• Experience and working knowledge of workforce development, training and quality assurance processes
• Experience of ‘moving others to action’ through guiding, negotiation and influencing
• Knowledge of the sport structure in the UK and the issues faced by high-performance and recreational/amateur sport in relation to anti-doping and drug misuse
• Experience and knowledge of the anti-doping rules and policies, including the technical anti-doping information athletes, athlete support personnel and NGBs require to meet their responsibilities
• Knowledge and/or experience in anti-doping, preferably anti-doping education
• Experienced and confident presenter – stakeholders, conferences,
• media trained (desirable) or willingness to attend media training to be a spokesperson for UKAD
• Skills
• Proactive, enthusiastic, personable and professional
• Excellent writing and verbal communications skills
• High level planning and monitoring ability with the capability of working to multiple tight deadlines within a time-pressured environment, producing high quality results
• Ability to build and sustain relationships with a network of key people internally and externally to achieve impactful results
• Panel/Committee representation, ability to Chair meetings
• Public speaking experience
• Able to develop innovative solutions and use initiative in problem solving
• Ability to balance and prioritise a demanding workload, remaining calm under pressure
• Confident in networking, developing and maintaining positive working relationships with a range of personnel operating at various levels within an organisation, adjusting communication, style and approach as required
• Able to cope in challenging environments, including delivering critical feedback with tact and diplomacy
• Effective use of high-level negotiating and influencing skills
• Good attention to detail, high level analytical and problem-solving skills including the ability to assess risk and take decisive action
• Experience in the use and maintenance of IT systems and the management of database systems
• Ability to manage sensitive and confidential information
Staff Benefits
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays and accrue one day of annual leave for every year of service, up to 30 days
• Two days paid Sports Leave and one day paid Volunteer Leave per annual leave year
• Christmas closure, between Christmas and New Year (not deducted from your holiday allowance)
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Interest free Season Ticket Loan
• Healthy Lifestyle Benefit
• Flexible Start and Finish times (start between 08:00 – 10:00 finish between 16:15 – 18:15)
• One working from home day per week after successful completion of your first month
• Eye care Vouchers
• Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) with four per cent pension allowance on top of your basic salary
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