Elite Sport Manager

The College is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community with the belief that diversity plays an important role in the success of our business.

Loughborough College Elite Sport is a highly successful department with over 2,000 learners. The department offers a wide range of provision up to L3 qualifications, working nationally with a broad range of funded programmes that includes: study programmes, apprenticeships, international, adult programmes and the Diploma in Sporting Excellence.

Working nationally with over 16 sport National Governing Bodies and a range of professional/semi-professional clubs, the Elite Sport Manager will work with partners to develop bespoke and engaging programmes to enable learners to progress through NGB dual career pathways.

The successful candidate will develop and lead learning programmes and develop creative and robust assessment strategies, ensuring high quality standards are achieved. This includes ensuring programmes meet all internal and external quality and funding requirements, carrying out Quality Assurance and providing outstanding line management skills to help manage and develop delivery staff.

The ideal candidate will have significant teaching, learning and assessment experience, excellent interpersonal and organisational skills and work effectively in a large cross-curricular team. You will possess excellent planning and administration skills and be able to work to deadlines. The role will include offsite working and so an up to date/valid driver’s license is essential, access to a vehicle is desirable.

Loughborough College welcomes applications regardless of age, gender (or transgender status), sexual orientation, marital status (including civil partnerships), pregnancy or maternity, disability, race, religion or belief, trade union affiliation, or another irrelevant factor. We will interview all disabled and ex-servicemen applicants who meet the essential criteria. Loughborough College positively embraces flexible working, recognising that employees may wish to balance work and family/home life and will consider all flexible working applications.

We are proud to have achieved the Investor in Diversity award. We actively encourage applications who are current under-represented and where we are using positive action under the Equality Act. We welcome everyone to consider becoming a part of our journey. The College is striving to attract, develop and retain the very best people by offering a motivating and inclusive workplace in which talent is truly recognised.

Alongside our commitment to your professional and personal development, we also offer a generous benefits package including:

• A competitive pension scheme
• Cycle-to-work scheme
• On-site parking
• One campus facility
• Access to healthcare scheme
• Subsided nursery fees
• Up to 35 days annual leave per year
• Additional annual leave available
• Generous Maternity/Paternity pay
• Fantastic CPD and inclusive resources for development
• Well-being hours
• Opportunities of volunteering within local community and charities

We offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, agile working, staff forums, staff working groups for sustainability, staff steering groups for Investors in Diversity and support services to support with mental health and wellbeing for staff from different backgrounds.

We are and have consistently invested in providing our learners and employees with an outstanding and unrivalled range of modern facilities and resources.

Overseas candidates wishing to apply who would require sponsorship can determine the likelihood of obtaining a Certificate of Sponsorship for the post by assessing their circumstances against criteria specified on the Gov website. Please note right to work checks will be completed when the job is offered.

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