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.

Key result areas

Relationship Management

•    Develop, maintain and nurture effective positive relationships with key partners in sport (such as YST, BASES, BASEM, UK Coaching, CIMPSA and UK Active) and education (FE/HE) to successfully negotiate the integration of clean sport education and information programmes into existing curriculum and regulatory structures

•    Develop, maintain and nurture effective working relationship with members of our Education Delivery Network (EDN), specifically the National Trainers, UK Anti-Doping’s (UKAD’s) contracted remote education workforce

•    Lead and manage the Clean Sport Accreditation Scheme for Universities and Colleges

•    Proactively create and seek opportunities to establish new partnership agreements with organisations that can assist in supporting the aims of our prevention strategy, managing or overseeing UKAD’s role as defined and agreed

•    Develop positive working relationships with other UKAD teams that are required to support technical input or sign-off for programme content and seek ways to further foster these relationships to improve educational outputs

•    Proactively support members of the Education team in the development of education programmes and associated resources

•    Maintain a high level of customer service balancing partners, sports, UKAD and athletes needs ensuring that it is high quality and evaluated annually to promote continuous improvement

Strategy, Planning and Implementation

•    Work with the Head of Education to development annual operating plans, risk register, budgets and objectives that aligns to the strategic objectives of the organisation

•    Coordinate the programme and learning resources strategy for the education partnership team, prioritising implementation based on athlete, Athlete Support Personnel (ASP) and partner needs

•    Ensure there is a planned and defined monitoring and evaluation process for all relevant education and information programmes which is documented and includes recommendations for continual improvement

•    Manage the budget and risks associated with the programme, escalating these to the Head of Education

•     Contribute to monthly and quarterly reporting to senior management as required.

Programme Leadership and Management

•    Lead the development of all education and learning resources for young and competitive athletes, coaches, ASP (including Parents, coaches and medical practitioners) and other core influencers,

•    Responsible for the management of associated education programmes and learning resources, including e-learning, web-based information programme for young and competitive athletes and ASP, accreditation schemes and workshops

•    Lead and oversee the Clean Sport Accreditation Scheme for Universities and Colleges including overseeing our partnership with British Universities Colleges Sport (BUCS) and Association of Colleges Sport (AoC)

•    Technical lead for Clean Sport at the Frontline (CS@FL), UKAD’s annual conference, working in collaboration with the Brand and Events Manager

•    Lead the interventions and associated programmes to integrate values-based education into the appropriate areas of the school curricular such as the Diploma in Sporting Excellence (DiSE), Business and Technology Education Council (BTEC) Sport, A-level and GCSE sports qualifications

•    Technically support the Education Programme Manager and/or Officers in the development of training, resources and content for sports partners to use, including designing and managing the process of approval/ equivalency checks

•    Support and contribute to the development of ‘white label’ products working with our external supplier to service, Clean Sport Accreditation Scheme, partner programmes and education contracted services where required

Organisational and People Management

•    Responsible for the line management of the Education Partnership Officer, including monitoring delivery against objectives, quality standards, personal development, coaching and appraisals

•    Line manages in a way that is supportive, empowering and role models effective corporate behaviour

•    Engage in, and support the culture of a high-performing team, including promoting and rewarding; creativity, innovation, integrity, honesty and sharing feedback

•    Leads by example through demonstration of the organisation’s values

•    Promote close working practices and communication across all members of the team and the sharing of technical expertise and best practice.

•    Work closely with the Head of Education to enhance working relationships and efficiencies across the Team, deputising when requested

•    Carry out any additional duties as directed by the Head of Education

Policy and Procedures

•    Provides technical support and input to any Policy or Code revision processes

•    Adhere to organisational policies and procedures

•    Participate and where appropriate lead the review and development of specified UKAD business procedures and processes

•    Support the organisations quality management standards (ISO)

Key internal and external contacts

•    UK Anti-Doping colleagues

•    UK Coaching

•    CIMPSA

•    Youth Sport Trust

•    British Association of Sport and Exercise Scientist (BASES)

•    Wider practitioner organisations such as BASEM,

•    Universities, Colleges and Schools

•    British Colleges and University Sport (BUCS)

•    Association of Colleges Sport (AoC)

•    External suppliers

•    Wider partner organisations

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 days 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 probationary period

·      Eye care Vouchers

·      Government Pension Scheme (LPGS) with four per cent pension allowance on top of your basic salary

Additional information

Working hours are 36 hours a week although flexibility is required in order to ensure core objectives are achieved. Some out-of-hours work, particularly weekend work, conference calls with International colleagues outside of core work hours, and occasional travel, will be required.

This job specification should not be regarded as exclusive or exhaustive.  It is intended as an outline indication of the areas of activity and will be amended in light of the changing needs of the organisation