Club Support Manager (Southeast)

Home Working (Travel to Clubs and events when required)

Circa £34,000 per annum

Permanent Full Time Role – (35 hours per week)

England Athletics is the membership and development body for athletics and running in England. We work in partnership with the wider athletics family, especially our member clubs and bodies, UK Athletics, Sport England & commercial partners, to grow opportunities for everyone to experience our sport and to enable them to reach their full potential. England Athletics also provides national-level competition and is responsible for athlete development beneath world-class performance levels.

England Athletics is a membership organisation with c1,770 member clubs/bodies and c166,000 registered athletes, which exists to provide services and support to its members and to promote and deliver athletics and running activities across all ages, event disciplines, ability levels and aspirations and to give support to the wider sport where there are more than 6m who run each month in England, 3,500 licensed road races and 206,991 active RunTogether participants operating in more than 3,287 groups.

We want to inspire more athletes and runners of all abilities and backgrounds to fulfil their potential and to have a lifelong love of the sport. It is our vision for athletics to become an inclusive sport where everyone belongs and can flourish. We want every participant involved in our sport, whether they are an athlete, runner, coach, official, leader, volunteer, facility operator, parent, or guardian to see and experience first-hand the guiding principles that continue to drive our work – including putting the athlete and runner first, encouraging high standards and ethical success across all aspects of our work, enhancing experiences, and working together in partnership not in isolation.

The Role:

A vacancy has arisen at England Athletics for a Club Support Manager, to cover South East region.   This role will work strategically as part of a club support team to engage and support clubs to be safe, sustainable and welcoming, to be the best they can to create vibrant environments for all their members.

We are dedicated to fulfilling our purpose with specific assurances:

• To provide outstanding service, advice and guidance to every affiliated club
• To build and maintain strong relationships with clubs through active engagement
• To work in an agile way and deeply understand the needs of every club
• To increase retention of U10-U20 athletes through modernisation of the club experience
• To develop dynamic leaders within every club
• To ensure every club has safe, sustainable and athlete-focused governance
• To celebrate our club volunteers achievements and recognise their invaluable contributions to our sport

The successful candidate will be educated to degree level (or equivalent) and have experience of developing / supporting volunteer led organisations (preferably sports clubs) to become long term sustainable bodies.  An understanding and familiarity of Local Authorities, the Education sector and other key stakeholders in the community sport landscape and experience of organising and managing projects, preferably within a community sport context is required.

For Further information and to apply for this exciting post, please visit our website: https://www.englandathletics.org/about-us/careers/

For an informal conversation about this position please email Emma Hurst, Senior Club Support Manager ehurst@englandathletics.org

Closing date for applications:  Friday 2nd May 2025

Interview date: Tuesday 20th May 2025, interviews will be held in person for the full day, location to be confirmed

England Athletics is committed to providing and supporting an inclusive culture that promotes equality, diversity, and inclusion. We are proud of the diverse community we represent and want to ensure our workforce is representative of that community so welcome applications from all sections of the community and diverse groups. We will, at every opportunity, advance equality, and inclusivity for all staff, at all levels within the organisation, by addressing barriers, encouraging participation, and taking all relevant steps to meet everyone’s needs.