Strategy Manager (Female Health) - Part Time (0.5FTE) (0805)

Strategy Manager (Female Health) - Part Time (0.5FTE) (0805)

Division: Women's Football & Para

Location: Wembley Stadium / National Football Centre, St. George's Park

Closing Date: 29 October 2024

Vacancy Type: Part-time, Permanent

The FA is looking for an adept relationship builder with strong project management experience and a passion for female health to provide strategic leadership to the female health golden thread of the Women's and Girls Strategy, driving alignment, connectivity and collaboration across the business.

This role can be based at either Wembley Stadium or at the National Football Centre, St. George's Park.

Please include a cover letter with your application outlining why you feel you are suitable for the role. We are especially interested in understanding your experiences and interest in female health.

What will you be doing?

Strategic Development and delivery:

• Lead the continued 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;

• Manage core objectives within the Female Health and Wellbeing Framework including:
  • Driving the creation of centralised eco-system of trusted expertise, skills and partners within female health and wellbeing to enable us to quality assure learning and development opportunities
  • Cross business communications
  • Ensuring game wide consistency and alignment of female athlete health messaging
  • Building a game wide plan for research
• Identify interdependencies, duplicate and complementary workstreams and cross-business opportunities for greater efficiency and connected working as well as identify, manage and report project risks.

Project and Budget Management:

• 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;
• Be responsible for the development of reporting, monitoring and tracking progress for the game wide delivery plan for Female Health and Wellbeing;
• Manage the female health and wellbeing core budget;

Business Planning:

• Ensure female health and wellbeing is embedded into all relevant departmental business plans each year;
• Support/ facilitate the creation of and oversee year on year delivery plans across each strategic pillar of the female health and well-being strategy, ensuring female health and wellbeing is embedded into all relevant departmental business plans.
• Executes additional tasks as required in order to meet FA Group changing priorities.
• Comply with all company policies and procedures to ensure the highest standards of health, safety and wellbeing 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:

• 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 challenge 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 organisational and planning skills;
• Clean, full driving licence.

Beneficial to have:

• Excellent influencing and negotiation skills;
• Proven ability to work across a wide range of stakeholders internal and external;

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 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,

Our Organisation

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 Unite the Game and Inspire the Nation.

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 home-based contract. The contractual location of this role can be found at the top of this advert on our FA vacancy page.

The FA, For All, For You

Our equality, diversity and inclusion 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 For All outlines three key strategic commitments - Lead the Change, Be the Change, and Inspire the Change - which will ensure tackling discrimination remains a core priority for English football for years to come.

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.