Academy Football Analyst

Get AI‑powered advice on this job and more exclusive features. The Role We are looking for an Academy Football Analyst to provide insightful and deliverable performance analysis within our Academy, predominantly through the Early Youth Development Phase. In this exciting role, you'll support and drive standards across all analysis processes at our club’s highly reputable Hale End site. You will follow and develop our Academy’s relevant analytics processes and workflows, ensuring alignment and optimal standards of quality are achieved. Who We Are We are one of the most famous clubs in world football, with a rich heritage and history of success. Beyond that, we are passionate about our local community and, behind the scenes, we have a wide variety of opportunities and career paths for all. We have a very defined purpose: to act for a winning team, culture and community. We achieve this by ensuring we are courageous in the pursuit of progress, we champion our community and each other, and that we do the right thing (even when no one is looking). Your Day‑to‑Day Deliver a best‑in‑class programme – you will take pride in delivering an elite analysis programme to Early Youth Development Phase players, coaches and wider colleagues, aligned to our values and Academy‑wide analysis approach. Capture coverage of key moments – you'll be entrusted with the filming and coding of home and away matches and oversee the management of training footage capture within your phase and wider phases, to provide material for feedback to both players and coaches. Contribute to the evolution of training methods – develop innovative ways to enhance training coaching opportunities through on‑pitch support and/or building drill libraries to support Academy‑wide training methodology. Input into player development – support individual player programmes through the use of video and visual information and generate content for cyclical reviews and player progress meetings, monitoring player interaction and involvement to further develop working practices. Drive engaging feedback to players and colleagues – diligently offer feedback to coaches and players around individual performance and areas of strength and improvement. Provide materials to champion learning and development – support our Coach Developer in the collection of information to enhance the coach development provision, and provide a range of material in the continuous development of our Academy’s learning resources, creating assets around playing identity and position‑specific profiling, and building databases for best practice libraries. What We Are Looking For Proven background in football analysis – credible background of providing football analysis at an elite level and excellent tactical understanding of football. Excellent knowledge of the wider football landscape – in‑depth understanding of how football analysis supports our wider club and a solid grounding and rounded view of varying working methodologies. Credible expertise – hold a UEFA C Coaching Licence and possess a minimum undergraduate degree relating to Sports Science, Coaching and Performance or Performance Analysis. Track record of working at Academy level – demonstrable experience of working with young players and well versed in best practice within football analysis at this level. Growth mindset – ability to adapt to emerging technologies and their application in automating working processes and desire to continuously challenge, learn and move forward. Best‑in‑class communication skills – confidence in delivering and communicating performance insights to key colleagues across our club. Flexible, adaptable and accurate approach – pride in resilience and the ability to retain a high standard of output in an ever‑changing fast‑paced environment. Why Choose Us An exciting reward and recognition scheme. Generous holiday allowance which increases with length of service. Great internal learning and development programmes. A flexible hybrid working model. Priority access to apply for match tickets. A competitive health and wellbeing benefits package. A leading Employee Assistance Programme. Great discounts with some of our Partners. Arsenal for Everyone Arsenal for Everyone is our commitment to promoting and embracing equality, diversity and inclusion, so that everyone connected to the club feels like they belong to the same Arsenal family. We believe that diversity of background, skills and experience drives our success on and off the pitch. Disability Confident Leader We are a Disability Confident Leader. We actively welcome and encourage applications from people with disabilities and long‑term health conditions. If you need disability‑related adjustments to the recruitment process, please indicate this in your application. If you are likely to meet the definition of being a ‘disabled person’ according to the Equality Act 2010, you may be eligible to apply for an interview via the Disability Confident Scheme – please indicate this in your application form below. The information you share with us about your health or disability will not be used in recruitment decisions. We are committed to ensuring that our environments for children, young people and adults at risk remain safe and inclusive. We therefore require successful candidates to complete a DBS check and other essential background checks prior to starting their employment. Depending on the responsibilities of the role, a DBS will be either a basic, standard, or enhanced check. Application Closing Date Saturday 20th December 2025. We reserve the right to close the position early if application volumes are particularly high. Please submit your application promptly. Good luck #J-18808-Ljbffr