Heriot-Watt University
Performance Sports Manager
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Role: Performance Sports Manager (Maternity Cover)
Grade and Salary: Grade 7 (£37,694 - £47,389) per annum.
FTE and working pattern: 1 FTE (full-time - 35 hours per week) for one year.
Holiday Entitlement: 33 days annual leave plus 9 buildings-closed days (and Christmas Eve when it falls on a weekday). Use our total rewards calculator: https://www.hw.ac.uk/about/work-for-heriot-watt/why-heriot-watt-university/our-uk-campuses/total-rewards-calculator to see the value of benefits provided by Heriot-Watt University.
Purpose of Role
The Performance Manager will lead the Performance Department to ensure high quality delivery across all our services with a high duty of care to our athletes. They will be responsible for the overall running of the department, delivery of financial and performance targets, maximizing the staff team and creating/ maintaining a positive multi-disciplinary team culture.
Key Duties & Responsibilities
- Oversee the operation of all sports scholarships and manage any future developments.
- Directly line manage department staff, oversee structure of the team and ensure high performing multi-disciplinary team.
- Coordinate external & academic service contracts.
- Plan and deliver sport science services including but not limited to; education workshops, testing, gym-based S&C sessions, conditioning based sessions, rehab-based session, and recovery sessions.
- Oversee and deliver various services to the SES academic programme, such as applied teaching, placements and dissertation co-supervision.
- Manage all health & safety / compliance within the Performance Sport department.
- Oversee the finances of the department, meeting agreed commercial targets, managing payroll and overheads and staying within scholarship budget.
- Contribute to Sport & Health testing while also ensuring good collaboration with Oriam Clinic.
- Contribute to wider sport & active well-being strategy at Heriot-Watt.
- Lead on performance education targeted at scholars but also wider audiences.
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Essential & Desirable Criteria
Essential
- Educated to degree in Sport Science at undergraduate level.
- Experience of providing a range of sports science services for athletes within a similar performance environment as outlined above for at least 5 years.
- Ability to coach, motivate, assess and manage a team, including setting team & individual objectives.
- Experience working within a multi-disciplinary team.
- Demonstrable professional and proactive approach.
- Ability to develop relationships with a range of stakeholders and clients.
- Excellent communication, interpersonal, influencing and presentation skills.
- High level organisational skills with the ability to prioritise and to function effectively in time pressured/ agile environment.
- Competent in the use of relevant IT packages.
- Demonstrable excellent customer service.
Desirable
- UKSCA Accredited (or able to complete within the first 6 months).
- Educated to master’s level in a relevant discipline.
- Experience of developing new business / business retention.
- Experience of delivering physiological tests.
How to Apply
Applications can be submitted up to 11:55pm (UK time) on Tuesday 25th August.
Interviews are expected to take place on Thursday 10th September.
Please submit your CV & covering letter via the Heriot-Watt on-line recruitment.
We welcome and will consider flexible working patterns e.g.; part-time working and job share options.
About the Team
Oriam has a vision to inspire, engage and motivate our communities through the facilities we provide and the interactions we have with our customers. As a manager within the team, you will contribute to the delivery of the strategy.
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About Heriot-Watt University
At Heriot-Watt we are passionate about our values and look to them to connect our people globally and to help us collaborate and celebrate our success through working together. Our research programmes can deliver real world impact which is achieved through the diversity of our international community and the recognition of creative talent that connects our global team.
Our flourishing community will give you the freedom to challenge and to bring your enterprising mind and to help our partners with solutions that can be applied now and in the future. Join us and Heriot Watt will provide you with a platform to thrive and work in a way that also helps you live your life in balance with well-being and inclusiveness at the heart of our global community.
Heriot-Watt University is committed to securing equality of opportunity in employment and to the creation of an environment in which individuals are selected, trained, promoted, appraised, and otherwise treated on the sole basis of their relevant merits and abilities. Equality and diversity are all about maximising potential and creating a culture of inclusion for all.
Heriot-Watt University values diversity across our university community and welcomes applications from all sectors of society, particularly from underrepresented groups. For more information, please see our website https://www.hw.ac.uk/uk/services/equality-diversity.htm and also our award-winning work in Disability Inclusive Science Careers https://disc.hw.ac.uk/.
Use our total rewards calculator: https://www.hw.ac.uk/about/work/total-rewards-calculator.htm to see the value of benefits provided by Heriot-Watt University.
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