Strategic Leadership Manager

4 weeks ago


London, Greater London, United Kingdom The FA Full time
Job Title: Strategic Leadership Manager

We are seeking a highly skilled Strategic Leadership Manager to join our team at The FA. As a key member of our organization, you will be responsible for providing strategic leadership to the female health and wellbeing strategy, driving alignment, connectivity, and collaboration across the business.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Lead the development and evolution of the FA's Female Health and Wellbeing Framework to ensure it remains fit for purpose and impactful over the next strategic cycle.
  • Manage the relationship of a core portfolio of internal and external stakeholders supporting the Female Health and Wellbeing Strategy.
  • Drive the creation of a centralized ecosystem of trusted expertise, skills, and partners within female health and wellbeing to enable quality assurance of learning and development opportunities.
  • Cross-business communications and ensuring game-wide consistency and alignment of female athlete health messaging.
  • Building a game-wide plan for research and identifying interdependencies, duplicate, and complementary workstreams and cross-business opportunities for greater efficiency and connected working.
  • Deliver effective governance, reporting, and communication processes for the successful delivery of the Female Health and Wellbeing strategy.
  • Lead the Female Health and Wellbeing cross-divisional project group and represent the project group at senior leadership level.
  • Own and track core measures of success and deliverables across female health and wellbeing for the 24-28 strategy.
  • Manage the female health and wellbeing core budget.
Requirements:
  • Ability to effectively build positive working relationships across a wide range of stakeholders.
  • Comfortable and competent with the big picture and translating into operational plans.
  • Ability to build consensus across multiple stakeholders.
  • Able to be challenged and to challenge respectfully.
  • Excellent interpersonal, communication, and relationship-building skills.
  • Experience of successful programme and project leadership.
  • Excellent presentation skills to a wide range of stakeholders.
  • Excellent organizational and planning skills.
  • Clean, full driving license.
What We Offer:
  • Competitive salary and great opportunities to develop and grow in your role.
  • Access to event day tickets at Wembley Stadium, alongside a host of regular internal events throughout the season.
  • 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.
  • A hybrid working model offering greater flexibility.

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 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 wellbeing.
  • 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.
  • A hybrid working model offering 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 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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