Sports Project Manager / Coordinator

Would you like to work with highly passionate professionals, with a breadth and depth of expertise in sports, media, social impact and academia?

*NB: A paid management or coordinator role is likely, once next stage funding is secured. In the mean time, reasonable expenses will be covered and there will be earning opportunities if you are an experienced coach (dependent on delivery needs, and your abilities).

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Are you…?

·   Passionate about tackling inequalities in sport for young people with additional needs?

·   Able to work across a varied range of cricket -related activities, people and settings?

·   Looking for a management challenge in a varied role within an early-stage, entrepreneurial environment?

If so, read on to join us on our mission!

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We're seeking a volunteer to work with us part time - ideally a minimum 6 hours per week across 1 or 2 days.

Responsibilities may include several of the following, depending on your experience:

• Coordinate our coaching programme delivery across several sites and personnel

• Research and development of funding and delivery partnerships

• Coordinating our stakeholder engagement, from attracting participants, general PR and social media, to managing communications with key partners 

• Reporting on progress against outcomes, KPIs, risks and issues

• Working with our coaching team, developing our delivery model, tool kit, SOPs 

• Planning and managing a variety of projects to pilot, improve and scale up. These may include
• Understanding our communities
• Promoting to potential participantsDefining outcome measurement
• Collaborating with research activities
• Designing policies, processes and procedures
• Implementing governance and organisational good practice

• delivering specific events, coaching sessions or other initiatives

• Supporting continuous improvement, and design and planning for scale-up

• Identifying opportunities and risks, avoiding problems before they happen - wherever possible

We will support you to be the central, ‘go to person’ across our communities, coaching delivery, partnerships and internal operations.  However, you must have a minimum one year's experience in comparable role(s), with responsibility for coordinating or managing small teams.

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Required qualities and experience

• Experience of coordinating/managing a variety of personality types in a dynamic environment

• Organised and self motivated

• Comfortable working independently and on your own – at times.

• Personable style with good emotional intelligence and interpersonal skills.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Desirable but non-essential skills and experience:

• Coaching

• Fundraising

• Project planning 

• Social media management and/or content creation

• Communications

• Budgeting and reporting

• Risk and issue management

• Proficiency with...
• Work management tools (e.g. collaboration platforms, project management software)
• Digital content creation
• Social media platforms