Netball Manager (CC12101)

Job title Netball Manager

Department Sports Development & Recreation

Salary Starting from £37,999, rising to £45,163 pro rata

Grade Grade 7

Contract Type Part Time, Fixed Term

Placed on Tuesday 01 October 2024

Closing date Tuesday 22 October 2024

Interview date Wednesday 30 October 2024

Reference CC12101

Applicant Visa Guidance Skilled Worker visa: guidance for applicants (bath.ac.uk)

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The Department of Sports Development and Recreation at the University of Bath seeks to create impact through sport, by maximising its unique environment every day for every customer.

The Department manages and organises a range of activities under the University's sports brand - Team Bath - and aspires to create a world leading multi-sport environment delivering to elite athletes, staff and students of the University and the local and regional community. Based in the inspiring Sports Training Village, the Department offers a wide range of high quality sports activities, programmes, events, services and facilities catering for all ages and abilities.

In addition, we are recognised by UK Sport as one of only eight Elite Training Centres, providing the training base for around 250 international level athletes. This is an opportunity to become part of a professional and progressive organisation at the leading edge of sport, health and fitness.

The netball programme based at the University of Bath has led the way in developing high-performance netballers for over 20 years, many of whom have gone on to achieve unrivalled success both domestically and internationally.

As netball in the UK begins its new chapter, transitioning towards professionalism, we are delighted that the Blue & Gold legacy will continue to live on as Team Bath Netball remain the custodians of England Netball's Player Pathway in the southwest region – including representation in the U23/feeder league, a newly-formed league underpinning the Netball Super League.

The Netball Manager role is responsible for the development and delivery of a co-ordinated netball programme, encompassing pathway and community activities, which supports the Aims and Objectives of the University Strategy for Sport; the development and management of the TB Performance Pathway across the region; and the long-term ambition of bringing elite netball back to the southwest region.

You will be responsible for leading on all business, administration and commercial aspects of the Team Bath Netball programme and will work in close partnership with the Academy Head Coach who will lead on and be responsible for all performance aspects of the programme.

The ideal candidate should be passionate and committed to both short term and long term goals of the programme, and have experience of:

You should have the ability to:

This is a part-time role (working 29.2 hours per week) for a fixed-term period to cover parental leave until January 2026.

For an informal discussion about the role please contact Emily Siddy on [email protected]

Find out more about our benefits.

We consider ourselves to be a university where difference is celebrated, respected and encouraged. We have an excellent international reputation with staff from over 60 different nations and have made a positive commitment towards gender equality and intersectionality receiving a Silver Athena SWAN award. We truly believe that diversity of experience, perspectives, and backgrounds will lead to a better environment for our employees and students, so we encourage applications from all genders, backgrounds, and communities, particularly from under-represented groups, and value the positive impact that will have on the university. We are committed to maintaining a safe and secure environment for our students, staff, and community by reinforcing our Safer Recruitment commitment.

We are very proud to be an autism friendly university and are an accredited Disability Confident Leader; committed to building disability confidence and supporting disabled staff.

Find out from our staff what makes the University of Bath a great place to work. Follow us @UniofBath and @UniofBathJobs on Twitter for more information.

We are constantly seeking to reduce the unconscious bias that enters any assessment process, with the goal of creating an inclusive and equal assessment process. To support this, personal details such as your name, may be removed from application forms at the initial shortlisting stage.