Vacancy description
Key Information
- Division:Women's Technical
- Location:National Football Centre, St George's Park
- Vacancy Type:Fixed Term Contract, Part-time
- Closing Date:3 April 2025
Impact, on and off the pitch...
The FA are excited to be searching for a Women's Performance Lifestyle Coordinator, who will be responsible for the effective execution and implementation of the FA's Performance Lifestyle Strategy, ensuring alignment with the overarching objectives for England Women's Teams.
This newly established role is pivotal in coordinating holistic support for England players, promoting their personal and professional development alongside their football careers as they progress through and beyond our England Women's Teams.
This is a part-time role on a 6-month fixed-term contract. The hours are flexible, and although the contractual location is St. George's Park, we offer a hybrid policy to accommodate the successful candidate.
What will you be doing?
- Drive the strategic implementation of the FA's Performance Lifestyle Strategy, ensuring alignment with the overarching objectives for England Women's Teams.
- Design, coordinate, and oversee the delivery of age-appropriate performance lifestyle support and resources tailored to the specific needs of England Women's Teams.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with key external stakeholders, including Women's Professional Leagues Limited (WPLL), Women's Professional Game Academies (PGA), the Professional Footballers' Association (PFA), and other organisations specialising in financial education, career development, athlete transitions and wellbeing.
- Work with internal stakeholders to implement a performance lifestyle delivery plan and create a continuing professional development (CPD) programme to enhance the skills of staff working across England Women's Teams.
- Design and develop a personalised development plan tool to support players, offering tailored strategies that promote their ongoing personal and professional growth during their time with England and prepare them for future transitions.
- Facilitate the coordination and delivery of a comprehensive parent education programme, empowering parents with the knowledge and skills to effectively support their child through key playing transitions.
- Collaborate with the FA Women's Player Education & Lifestyle Lead and the Women's Psychosocial Department to hold regular case conferences, informing the planning of tailored and holistic support for high-potential players.
- Prioritise player welfare by adhering to the FA's safeguarding policies, ensuring all support promotes a safe, impartial, and confidential environment for players while providing access to mental health and well-being resources.
- Drive measurable outcomes including; increasing player engagement with personal and professional development, building impactful external partnerships, and promoting informed parental involvement.
- Work collaboratively with the FA Women's Technical Team to support the successful implementation of the Women's Technical Strategy.
- Attend departmental meetings and collaborate with internal teams to ensure alignment and consistency in delivery across all England Women's Teams.
- Executes additional tasks as required to meet the FA's changing priorities.
- Comply with all company policies and procedures to ensure 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:
- A degree (or equivalent qualification) in sports management, sports science, or a related field focused on managing and developing high-performing individuals.
- Demonstrate practical experience in supporting high-performing athletes with their personal development within a team or organisational setting.
- Possess a solid understanding of athlete transitions at the elite level.
- Showcase a track record of successfully delivering lifestyle coaching to talented and elite-level athletes.
- Experience in planning, facilitating and delivering workshops or life skills programmes tailored to both individual and group needs within a sports context.
- Exhibit effective written communication and oral presentation skills.
- Proficient in establishing and maintaining positive relationships with individuals while collaborating effectively within a multidisciplinary team.
- Ability to adapt and work flexibly to meet the needs of the organisation.
- Demonstrate excellent networking abilities.
- Competent in securely managing personal data.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office applications.
Beneficial to have:
- A professional coaching and mentoring qualification (equivalent to Level 7) and/or individual accreditation (e.g., EMCC or ICF).
- Level 3 Certificate in Athlete Personal Development and Lifestyle.
- Proven success in designing and implementing life skills programmes within a sports context.
- Have an appreciation of current and future developments within women's football.
- Demonstrated experience in delivering Continuing Professional Development (CPD).
- Proven ability to deliver engaging presentations, including online sessions.
- Evidence of ongoing personal development.
- Completion of the FA Safeguarding Children Course or equivalent sports-related training.
We can confirm the interview date is held for 16th April at St. George's Park in person.
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, encourages 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 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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