Established in December 2023, the Cricket Regulator was set up to be the ring-fenced executive team responsible for ensuring effective education programmes are in place; to operate best practice monitoring, intelligence, and compliance programmes; to investigate alleged breaches, and to prosecute cases where considered appropriate.

The Cricket Regulator focuses on Anti-Corruption, Anti-Discrimination, Anti-Doping, Safeguarding, General Misconduct, and Agency activity in the professional game, as well as other designated levels of organised cricket. Safeguarding and Anti-Discrimination also involves working with other organisations across the recreational game. The Cricket Regulator also ensures cricket in England and Wales meets the regulatory requirements of the International Cricket Council, and also playing a lead role in combatting global threats.

The roles and responsibilities of the Cricket Regulator were previously carried out by an ECB team, which has largely transitioned across to the new structure. An objective in the creation of the Cricket Regulator was to create greater assurance around the separation between regulatory functions and the remainder of the ECB activities.

This role is critical to ensure that the ECB as an organisation, the staff it employs and deploys, understand and embrace listening to, and protecting, children and adults within their working practices and behaviours as well as influencing others to achieve best practice and compliance with legislative requirements. Role holder will promote and enable organisational learning in a blame-free manner for the benefit of the organisation and game as a whole.

THE ECB

The England and Wales Cricket Board is the national governing body for cricket in England and Wales, supporting the game at every level, covering the recreational and professional games. The goal of the ECB is for cricket to be the most inclusive team sport, through delivering the Inspiring Generations strategy and fulfilling the ECB purpose to connect communities and improve lives through cricket.

The ECB Board has the power to set standards in relation to on and off field activity and does so through regulations.  The ECB General Counsel has executive responsibility for the ECB regulations, reporting to the ECB Chief Executive. All proposed regulation must be scrutinised by the Regulatory Board, who advise the ECB Board.

WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING

·  Leading the case management team in responding to and investigating safeguarding concerns across cricket in England and Wales.

·  Developing the team through supervision and continuing professional development, including line management responsibility for the senior case officer and managed participants officer.

·  Work collaboratively with the Director of safeguarding and other safeguarding managers to support strategic priorities, including development of crickets future safeguarding strategy 2025-2028.

·  Work collaboratively across the safeguarding team to ensure data and themes from case management supports and informs future strategy and best practice across cricket.

·  Continuing to develop the framework for case management concerns to be managed, including caseload volume, investigation plans, thresholds, and reviews.

·  Developing a quality assurance process for cases submitted to an independent safeguarding panel.

·  Ownership of Suspension Reviews (including case tracker); including responses to any suspension appeals.

·  Conducting an annual review of ECB Child Safeguarding procedures (case management), to ensure current legislation and best practice guidance is being followed.

·  Developing ECB safeguarding procedure (case management) for adults at risk, and review annually.

·  Co-Chair Vetting Panel together with Senior Case Officer (bi-monthly).

·  Supporting practice and policy development around case management safeguarding processes.

YOU’LL HAVE

·       Substantial experience of safeguarding children within mainly statutory organisational settings.

·       Substantial understanding of the statutory agencies network for safeguarding within England and Wales.

·       Knowledge of Children’s Act and other relevant legislation.  

·       Experience of safeguarding adults.

·       Passionate about empowering children and the more vulnerable in society.

·       Significant experience of conflict resolution and dealing with sensitive issues.

·       Significant experience of working in a highly confidential environment.

·       High levels of personal resilience and persistence and significant level of emotional intelligence.

YOU’LL RECEIVE

·       Competitive salary

·       Holiday - 25 days a year; and Volunteering - 2 days a year

·       Pension - Non-contributory pension

·       Private medical insurance and long-term sickness insurance

·       Employee health cash-back plan

·       Life assurance - four times your annual basic salary

·       Enhanced family leave and pay

·       Other competitive benefits, and access to support and development programmes

We welcome and encourage applications from all backgrounds.