This role is hybrid, working from home up to 3 days per week, with 2 days at our offices based in Loughborough.

Job purpose

You will work collaboratively with internal and external partners to develop and coordinate an annual support programme for National Governing Bodies (NGBs) to encourage them to maximise prevention of doping through education.

You will also develop and implement a rigorous and effective monitoring process to ensure NGBs meet the mandatory clean sport education requirements, and ensure their compliance with the National Anti-Doping Policy.

 Key result areas include

·       Support NGBs to develop, implement and monitor their clean sport education strategies and implementation plans and provide critical feedback on NGB education strategies as required.

·       Develop and implement an innovative annual calendar of support to ensure NGBs can access appropriate resources, including the opportunity to share practice across the sector.

·       Ensure the needs of NGB and other key partners are reflected in organisation wide campaigns and events, specifically Clean Sport Week and Clean Sport Connect.

·       Support a robust equivalency process for NGBs to gain UKAD approval for use of their own resources.

·       Coordinate and support a team of National Trainers to implement the support programme and an annual cycle of monitoring to support NGBs and provide an accountability mechanism for their education strategies and implementation plans.

·       Liaise with NGB personnel following requests for specific support and follow internal processes to allocate appropriate resources.

·       Develop and maintain positive working relationships with key personnel with a remit for anti-doping within an NGB and support the relationships and work with wider sports partners where required.

·       Engage with any Policy or Code revision processes as required, and where appropriate lead the review and development of specified UKAD business procedures and processes.

 Person specification

Qualifications/experience/knowledge

•    Experience of working within a sports organisation, NGB or similar, or further level education.

•    Experience of writing strategic plans and/or supporting colleagues in writing a strategic plan within an education or sport setting.

•    Experience in managing programmes and projects.

•    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 is desirable.

Skills

•    Ability to develop education programmes in a range of formats.

•    Ability to adapt complicated and technical information into simple user-friendly content.

•    Good planning, organisation and monitoring ability with the capability of working on multiple projects and still producing high-quality results.

•    Ability to build and sustain relationships with a network of key people internally and externally to achieve impactful results.

•    Able to develop innovative solutions and use initiative in problem-solving, including the ability to assess risk and take decisive action.

•    Confident presenter and external speaker adjusting communication, style and approach as required.

•    Able to cope in challenging environments, including delivering critical feedback with tact and diplomacy.

•    Learning programme design and curriculum development experience is desirable.