Broadcast Project Lead - Wembley Stadium, United Kingdom - The Football Association

The Football Association

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Wembley Stadium, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

The Role

This role is a 6-month Fixed Term Contract starting asap to support the Head of Operations for Women's Professional Game across a range of areas within Broadcast.

Key Accountabilities

To work with Head of Operations for women's professional game (WPG) on the successful recruitment and onboarding of the broadcast operations team for the BWSL/BWC.
To ensure relationships with broadcast partners remain strong with effective and collaborative relationship management at a senior level at this critical time.
To oversee the operationally delivery of the broadcast for season launch ensuring an effective transition from incumbent team to new team. Dependent on timings, there may be a requirement for operational implementation through the transition period from current team members to new team members
To be an escalation point for broadcast operations where required.
To support the Head of Media Rights on the WSL/WC rights tender where required.
To develop an understanding of current media and content strategy for BWSL and BWC as well as current production contracts, working with the leadership team on development of NewCo strategy.
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.

Essential skills and experience required

Expert understanding of the broadcasting industry
Ability to build long lasting business relationships with senior level stakeholders
Excellent communication, organizational & project management skills
Experience of team management and development
High level of commercial awareness
Expert negotiator and problem solver
Accomplished communication and presentation skills
Understanding of the football industry.
Flexible approach to working hours.

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 worldclass, Elite Performance Centre, St. George's Park in Staffordshire which is an exceptional setting to develop and inspire highperforming 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 flexibility on where you work.

Our Organisation

The Football Association [The FA] is the notforprofit 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, Barclays FA Women's Super League, FA Women's Championship, and Vitality Women's FA Cup, and the worldclass facilities of Wembley Stadium and St. George's Park,

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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 either Wembley Stadium, St. George's Park or our Processing Centre, unless the role is advertised as a homebased 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 longterm commitment to using our influence across English football to create a game free from discrimination.
A Game For All outlines three key strategic commitments
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