Women's Talent Pathway Coordinator - Fixed-Term Contract

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Join The FA in an exciting opportunity to join The Football Association as a Women's Talent Pathway Coordinator and play a part in supporting the future of the women's game.

Based at the iconic St George's Park, you'll provide high-quality administrative, coordination and operational support to the England Women's Talent Pathway team. You'll help ensure the smooth running of key processes that enable the team to identify and manage a broad and diverse pool of talented players, helping to ensure England teams have access to the best possible talent.

This role is a 4-month fixed-term contract.

What will you be doing?

• Support the administration of the Discover My Talent Programme as part of the England Women's Talent Pathway.
• Support the administration of the Player Referral system to support the identification of players for the England Women's Talent Pathway.
• Coordinate and deliver administrative support to regional staff, ensuring event packs, invites, venue information, attendance records, and processes are maintained accurately and efficiently.
• To provide administration and operational support for the England Women's Talent Pathway National Events as and when appropriate.
• Provide administrative support for key projects such as Finding our Finishers and Goalkeeping Talent ID and Development.
• To support the coordination of monthly Talent Team Meetings ensuring meeting rooms, refreshments and accommodation requirements are covered for attendees.
• Provide business support to the England Talent Pathway Team including travel, accommodation and activity requisitions.
• Support the onboarding, contracting, and payroll administration for England Women's Talent Pathway Casual staff ensuring compliance with internal processes and deadlines.
• Identify opportunities to improve administrative processes, templates, trackers, and ways of working to support a more efficient and consistent operations function.
• Attend Talent Team meetings and other departmental meetings as required.
• Undertake additional duties as reasonably required to support the evolving priorities of the FA Group.
• Comply with all company policies and procedures to ensure that the highest standards of health, safety, and well-being can be maintained.

What are we looking for?

Essential for the role:

• Experience of working in an administrative, coordination, or operational support role within a busy team environment.
• Knowledge and / or experience of women's football.
• Excellent organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple tasks, deadlines, and competing priorities accurately and efficiently.
• Strong attention to detail, with confidence maintaining records, trackers, reports, and other administrative documentation.
• Confident written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to liaise professionally with internal colleagues and external stakeholders, providing excellent customer service.
• Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications, particularly Outlook, Word, Excel, and Teams.
• Proactive and collaborative approach, with the ability to work independently and as part of a wider team.

Beneficial to have:

• Experience of working in sport, football, talent pathways, events, or a performance environment.
• Understanding of Smartsheets and functions, processes within it.

Interviews are to take place at the National Football Centre, St. George's Park on the 14th of October.

What's in it for you?

We are committed to ensuring everyone can flourish in their roles. To achieve this, we have unique office spaces under the arch of the iconic Wembley National Stadium, which is the home of English Football. We are also delighted to offer a world-class, Elite Performance Centre, St. George's Park in Staffordshire, which is an exceptional setting to develop and inspire high-performing England teams and leaders.

We pride ourselves on offering a competitive salary as well as great opportunities to develop and grow in your role. But that is not all; we also have a range of exciting benefits, some of which can be found below:

• Access to event day tickets at Wembley Stadium, alongside a host of regular internal events throughout the season, encourages you to connect and learn with your colleagues and look after your mental health and well-being.
• Free, nutritious lunches at Wembley Stadium and St. George's Park.
• Private medical cover funded by The FA.
• A contributory pension scheme.
• An additional 'Thank You' day's leave, volunteering days, as well as 25 days of annual leave (based on a full-time, permanent contract)
• A hybrid working model which offers greater flexibility.

For more information on what it is like to work at The FA, please visit our FA Careers page, https://www.thefa.com/about-football-association/careers

Currently, we are working within a hybrid working model whereby the expectation is to work from your contractual location for part of the week, and as and when required by the team. The remaining days can be worked remotely. We will continue to monitor this model, and it may be adjusted in future if deemed necessary. The contractual location of this role can be found on the FA Careers page.

We are a diverse workplace, aspiring to represent football across the country. The Football Association actively promotes inclusion and diversity, encouraging you to be the best version of yourself at work.

We welcome applications from everyone and are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. If you have any particular requirements in respect of the recruitment or interview process, please mention this during your application.

As part of the FA's commitment to ensuring a safe environment for everyone in football, every employee will be required to complete a DBS check. The level of the check required will be based on the activity of the specific job role and in line with legislation and government guidance.