Vacancy description
Key Information
- Salary:Competitive
- Division:Grassroots Football
- Location:Home based
- Vacancy Type:Fixed Term Contract, Full-time
- Closing Date:17 April 2025
The Grassroots Division at The FA are looking for a results driven and collaborative Legacy Manager to manage the national co-ordination of EURO 2028 Legacy Plans for England, ensuring clear alignment with the FA ambitions for grassroots football development.
You will lead the formation and management of Legacy Steering Groups in Host Cities, managing key relationships associated with the tournament and drive the management and strategic delivery of all FA Development programmes in five EURO 2028 English Host Cities.
What will you be doing?
Programme Management
- Sets the operational plans for football related legacy programme delivery in EURO 2028 Host City locations, ensuring delivery is sufficiently strategic and tailored to the local area to achieve sustainable change
- Continually track, review and analyse delivery, to ensure maximum retention of participants, coaches, referees and volunteers across all Host Cities
- Manage all planning and reporting processes associated with EURO 2028 legacy programme delivery, including management and monitoring of relevant budgets
- Work with the Tournament Head of Impact and Sustainability to ensure that Gamechanger objectives across UK and Ireland are delivered within England and contributing to the wider success of the legacy and impact programme
- Support the Senior National Development Manager (Networks and Partnerships) in leading a national football focussed steering group to feed into a wider Host City Impact and Legacy Group
- Works alongside the Tournament marketing team to link the legacy programme to key activities in the lead up to and during the tournament, such as UEFA's Youth Programme and connecting to a EURO 2028 tournament legacy brand
Team Work
- Collaborate with teams across The FA to ensure that a national and Host City legacy programme compliments and accelerates existing delivery.
- Support The FA's Development Management Team to integrate EURO 2028 legacy ambitions into wider Grassroots Football and cross Divisional plans, ensuring coherent delivery at local level (through County FAs, England Football Accredited Clubs Clubs and professional club networks including Host Stadium clubs)
- Implement regular interactive briefing sessions to ensure appropriate colleagues are properly informed of the EURO 2028 Legacy progress
- Liaise with the FA Marketing and Communications teams to ensure effective signposting and promotion
Relationship and Influence
- Work alongside the Senior National Development Manager (Networks and Partnerships) to engage Host City and Host Stadium decision makers and influencers to build awareness, ownership and buy in to the EURO 2028 Legacy aims and ambitions
- Make timely, informed and action-focussed strategic decisions that will achieve the EURO 2028 Legacy ambition and respond flexibly to changes in the Host City landscape
- Provide national support and advice for Legacy Groups to maximise local investment opportunities
Other Duties
- Executes additional tasks as required to meet the FA's changing priorities.
- Comply with all company policies and procedures to ensure that the highest standards of health, safety, and well-being can be maintained.
- As part of the FA's commitment to ensuring a safe environment for everyone in football, every employee will be required to complete a DBS check. The level of the check required will be based on the activity of the specific job role and in line with legislation and government guidance.
What are we looking for?
Essential for the role:
- Experience of leading and implementing strategy at a national and/or local level
- Proven track record of delivering results and raising performance within established targets
- Ability to lead, build and motivate stakeholder groups to achieve collaborative goals
- Manage and maintain budgets within specific financial parameters
- Track record of developing effective partnerships to secure resources and or deliver targets
- Ability to communicate and influence effectively at all levels
- Understanding of the FA Inspiring Positive Change through Football Strategy
- Experience of implementing Quality Assurance processes
- Capacity to manage conflict
- Demonstrate success providing a range of customer support services to internal and external customers
- Ability to gain ‘buy in' to equality objectives
- Knowledge of barriers facing under-represented groups
- Track record of innovation resulting in outcome focused results
Beneficial to have:
- Understanding of the political and functional workings of County Football Associations and/or Local Authorities
- Experience and expertise in football development
- Experience and expertise in Tournament legacy development
- Knowledge of the NGB, football and education landscapes
What's in it for you?
We are committed to ensuring everyone can flourish in their roles, to achieve this we have unique office spaces under the arch of the iconic Wembley National Stadium, which is the home of English Football. We are also delighted to offer a world-class, Elite Performance Centre, St. George's Park in Staffordshire which is an exceptional setting to develop and inspire high-performing England teams and leaders.
We pride ourselves in offering a competitive salary as well as great opportunities to develop and grow in your role. But that is not all; we also have a range of exciting benefits, some of which can be found below:
- Access to event day tickets at Wembley Stadium, alongside a host of regular internal events throughout the season, encouraging you to connect and learn with your colleagues and look after your mental health and well-being.
- Free, nutritious lunches at Wembley Stadium and St. George's Park.
- Free private medical cover.
- A contributory pension scheme.
- An additional 'Thank You' days leave, volunteering days as well as 25 days annual leave (based on a full-time, permanent contract.)
- A hybrid working model which offers greater flexibility.
For more information on what it is like to work at The FA, please visit our FA Careers page, https://www.thefa.com/about-football-association/careers
We are a diverse workplace, aspiring to represent football across the country. The Football Association actively promotes inclusion and diversity, encouraging you to be the best version of yourself at work.
We welcome applications from everyone and are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. If you have any particular requirements in respect of the recruitment or interview process, please mention this during your application.
As part of the FA's commitment to ensuring a safe environment for everyone in football, every employee will be required to complete a DBS check. The level of the check required will be based on the activity of the specific job role and in line with legislation and government guidance.
ABOUT US
The Football Association [The FA] is the not-for-profit governing body of football in England. It is responsible for promoting and developing every level of the game, from grassroots through to the professional game, and generates significant revenue to support investment into English football each year.
The FA oversees England international teams across men’s, women’s, youth and disability football, as well as running the National League System and FA Competitions including the Emirates FA Cup, and Women’s Adobe FA Cup, and the world-class facilities of Wembley Stadium and St. George’s Park, all with a purpose to inspire positive change through football.
Our game can tackle some of society’s core challenges. It can bring communities together, nationally and locally. It can be a platform for inclusion, ensuring there is a place for all. It can get people active and promote wellbeing often at a time when we need it most. With UEFA EURO 2028 – hosted in the UK and Ireland – on the horizon, we have an incredible opportunity to transform football across the country.
Now is the time to inspire positive change.
We currently work within a hybrid working model whereby the expectation is to work from your contractual location for part of the week, and as and when required by the team. The remaining days can be worked remotely. We will continue to monitor this model, and it may be adjusted in future if deemed necessary.
Your contract with The FA will specify a fixed location of Wembley Stadium or St. George’s Park unless the role is advertised as a homebased contract. The contractual location of this role can be found at the top of this advert on our FA vacancy page.
THE PROCESS
We believe that assessment and selection should be robust, fair, and inclusive.
Following receipt of your application and the closing of the application process, you can expect a period of circa two weeks for us to thoroughly screen and shortlist, ahead of any next stage and interview.
Please note, we receive a high volume of applications so this can vary but we ensure that our assessor panel reviews all applications, and no use of automated screening or AI is used.
At an interview, we want to ensure that we see the best of you as an individual and increase our understanding of your skills and experience relevant to the demands of the role. It is very much a two-way process with importance placed on the candidate experience so that regardless of outcome, you feel valued, and treated fairly and hopefully have a positive experience.
No process is ever the same, but we would like to create an environment that is welcoming and ensures the experience is as enjoyable as possible.
We tailor our assessment and selection depending on the nature and demands of the role. The FA Resourcing Team will provide you with as much notice as possible about the process and the format of any interview will always be communicated to you in advance, including what to expect on the day and who you will be seeing.
We often receive a high volume of applications, and for certain roles, we will supplement your application, utilising our on-demand video interviewing platform. On-demand video interviews enable you to answer preset questions, in the comfort of your own home or office setting and at a convenient time for you, giving us greater insight into you as an individual and the skills and experience you might bring to the role and working at The FA.
We also utilise Microsoft Teams for virtual interviews and of course host you at our world class venues, Wembley Stadium and our National Football Centre, St. George’s Park.
GROUP STRATEGY
WE HAVE MOVED FOOTBALL FORWARD.
From 2020 - 2024, we have – in collaboration with our key partners – been able to deliver meaningful change across the game.
From winning our first major tournament in over 50 years to delivering thousands of high-quality pitches to the grassroots game.
BUT WE CAN’T STOP NOW - AND WE WON’T.
This new strategy is about doubling down. Our game can tackle some of society’s core challenges. It can bring communities together, nationally and locally.
It can be a platform for inclusion, ensuring there is a place for all. It can get people active and promote wellbeing often at a time when we need it most.
With UEFA EURO 2028 – hosted in the UK and Ireland – on the horizon, we have an incredible opportunity to transform football across the country.
NOW IS THE TIME TO INSPIRE POSITIVE CHANGE.
Our ultimate purpose is to ‘Inspire positive change through football’ – everything we do ultimately ladders up to this end goal.
The 2024-2028 strategy focuses on tackling four long-term strategic challenges that will fulfil this purpose and drive real change across the game, our ‘Game Changer’ objectives.
Underpinning these Game Changers are then four activities and approaches that will enable us to meet challenges head on, our ‘Drivers’.
EDI STRATEGY
Our equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) strategy forms an integral part of our long-term commitment to using our influence across English football to create a game free from discrimination.
A GAME FREE FROM DISCRIMINATION
Our 2024 – 2028 strategy outlines three fundamental pillars for delivering a game free from discrimination – Boosting Representation, Driving Inclusion and Tackling Discrimination.
These pillars ensure that our work uniting communities, improving lives, and inspiring positive change on and off the pitch will remain a core priority for English football for years to come.
We are a diverse workplace, aspiring to represent football across the country. The FA actively promotes inclusion and diversity, encouraging you to be the best version of yourself at work.
We welcome applications from everyone and are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. If you have any particular requirements in respect of the recruitment or interview process, please mention this during your application.
As part of The FA’s commitment to ensuring a safe environment for everyone in football, every employee will be required to complete a DBS check. The level of the check required will be based on the activity of the specific job role and in line with legislation and government guidance.
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