England Talent Officer

37 hours per week

Salary range £26,699 to £28,650 per annum (dependent upon experience)

31 days annual leave + Bank Holidays + 2 wellbeing days a year + weekly exercise and wellbeing hours

This is a dual based role working from Lilleshall National Sports Centre, nr Newport, Shropshire (2 days a week) and from home. However, there will be evening/weekend work and travel, as required, to meet the requirements of the role.

The Role

The England Performance Pathway has gymnasts at the heart of the programme, and the overall purpose of this role is to provide a positive and enjoyable development environment for Men’s Artistic, Women’s Artistic, Rhythmic, and Acrobatic programmes. The aim is to support the gymnasts, personal coaches, parents and national coaches, with the delivery of an agreed programme. This role will be responsible for ensuring the English Gymnastics Association (EGA) programme continues to grow and directly aligns with the GBR programme. Please refer to the Role Profile for further details.

Main Areas of Responsibility:

1. Support the England Performance Pathway Manager, the EGA, and British Gymnastics to effectively plan and deliver the England Performance Pathway programme of activities and learning events.

   Typical Activities:

   • Monitoring and implementing the logistics, administration, and financial expenditure for training camps, competitions and Internationals, including the organisation of travel, transport, facilities, equipment, kit, medical cover, welfare cover, FIG licenses, and consent forms.
   • Fulfilling official duties as pastoral care at training camps, and as England Team Manager/Head of Delegation for Domestic or International Competitions, mapping out the safeguarding, welfare.
   • Work closely with the England National Coaches to co-ordinate all Squad/Discipline activity, for each discipline.
   • Be the key point of contact for liaison and welfare for the England Coaching team, parents, personal coaches, and England squad gymnasts.
   • Maintaining the website with current and relevant resources and information to promote the English Performance Pathway events through social media where appropriate.
2. Coordinate the daily financial requirements and standardisation of administration of the programme

   Typical Activities:

   • Maintaining accurate/auditable paper trails and files for all squad activities/expenditure; ensuring confidentiality and secure storage of records/data
   • Processing all expenditure relevant to the programme(s); monitoring/reporting against budget on a monthly basis; attending budget and forecast meetings.
   • Oversee the calendar programme across the disciplines and research appropriate venues for the squads across each discipline and ensure the appropriate resources and contractors are in place to support the delivery of the programme
   • Maintenance of accurate and confidential records for all designated coaches, contractors and delegations.
3. Support project work across the England Performance Pathway Programme

   Typical Activities:

   • Assist with the development of the HOD training, selection, and CPD within the England Performance Pathway Programme
   • Support the PPM with regular project work across to constantly strive to improve the England Performance Pathway Programme
   • Drive the feedback processes for gymnasts, parents and personal coaches across all four disciplines
   • Support the alignment between the England and GBR Performance Pathway Programmes
4. Keeping our sport, our members and our colleagues safe
   • All employees of British Gymnastics have responsibility to keep our sport, our members and our staff safe.
   • This includes upholding our safeguarding, data protection, health & safety, equality & diversity and risk management policies, promoting our rules and standards of conduct for members and reporting any suspected risks, breaches, misconduct or poor practice to their line manager, the Integrity Unit (concerns about members and clubs) or the HR team (concerns about British Gymnastics staff).

The Person

1. Knowledge, Skills and Expertise

This role requires the holder to demonstrate:

• Strong organisational and administrative skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities, meet deadlines and maintain high attention to detail
• Confidence using IT systems and databases.
• Excellent communication, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build effective relationships with a wide range of stakeholders.
• A good understanding of budgets and financial processes.
• An ability to handle confidential and sensitive information appropriately.
• Flexible to work evenings, weekends and travel as required.

In addition, the role holder will benefit from:

• Having an understanding of gymnastics disciplines, club structures, regional programmes and pathways.
• Experience of project planning/management/monitoring delivery of Regional/National Talent Development Programmes and other key coaching events e.g. competitions, courses etc.

2. People

To be effective in this role the holder will:

• Be self-motivated, able to work independently, and committed to personal development and a high-performance culture
• Have strong communication skills for listening/engaging, relationship building, leading/attending meetings and the production/delivery of presentations and reports.
• Have a professional approach to handling sensitive performance, medical and welfare information

3. Shaping Direction

• The holder of this role will be proactive and use their initiative in order to oversee the day to day running of the EGA Regional Development Programme and operational plan
• This role requires the holder to be effective with regards to forward planning activities and to maximise all available resources, both financial and human.
• From this programme the role holder will plan and monitor own workload on a weekly/monthly basis under the guidance of the England Performance Pathway Manager.

4. Developing Solutions

This role requires the holder analyse and resolve a number of problems/issues on a regular basis in relation to local delivery and department plans.

In addition, the role holder will be required to use their initiative and be creative whilst looking for new ways of improving services including:

• Supporting new opportunities and advocating/raising the profile of opportunities
• Working with the EGA, National Talent Development Team and key PSMT colleagues to ensure consistency of programmes and clear alignment to both World Class Programmes and English Regional Squad Programmes
• Acting as a key link to feed into the National Talent Development Programme strategy across a number of disciplines

5. Decision Making

This role requires the holder to make decisions in relation to their own work programme and through insight and feedback make recommendations in relation to:

• Specific projects and associated/delegated budgets
• Improvements to National Talent Development Programmes
• Solutions for challenges and issues

6. Communicating

This role requires the holder to inform and obtain information from colleagues/stakeholders and establish effective and meaningful business relationships with a broad range of partners and organisations. It is expected that the role holder will possess:

• Communication skills for listening/engaging, relationship building, leading/attending meetings and the productions/delivery of presentations and reports
• Diplomacy and negotiation skills for dealing with a range of both internal and external business clients

For the role to succeed, communication and interpersonal skills will be key to delivering formal presentations, contributing at or leading a range of meetings/working groups; collating data/feedback and writing reports; networking and influencing external partners and championing projects and interventions

A DBS with barred list will be required for the post

Closing date for applications: Midnight on 14th June 2026

Interview date: Wednesday 24th June 2026

Please note: Interviews will take place in person at our Head Offices at Lilleshall National Sports Centre, Newport Shropshire TF10 9AT