Youth Competition Manager

Organisation: England Athletics
Salary: 34,000
Location: Home Working (Travel where required)
Contract type: Permanent (Full time)
Closing date: 27 August 2025
Interview date: 10 September 2025
Job Description: 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 c1,928 member clubs/bodies and c176,000 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, 2,251 licensed road races and 244,050 active RunTogether participants operating in more than 3,439 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 Youth Competition Manager, on a permanent basis. The Youth Competition Manager will work closely and collaboratively across the areas of club support, club-school links, and competition.

Leading the coordinated roll out of the newly endorsed and recommended track and field competition format for Under 10s and 12s, being responsible for the management, and service support to member clubs and competition providers in the lead towards April 2026 when the new age groups for competition will come into force under the UKA rules of competition.

The postholder will be responsible for managing a series of pilot competitions across the nine English regions during 2025 working closely with competition providers and internal stakeholders, including those responsible for digital support, marketing and communications, and other members of the club support and competition teams at England Athletics. The postholder would also be responsible for managing the day-to-day relationship with key partners in this specific space such as Sportshall Athletics and with Youth Sport Trust via the School Games Programme.

The successful candidate will work collaboratively and creatively with existing EA staff and partners to be the lead point of contact for Under 10s and 12s competition in England, providing proactive leadership in this space, resources, toolkits, advice and guidance to help a smooth roll out of competitions across the domestic sport.

This individual will need to be self-motivated, well organised, have good people and project management skills and possess good levels of emotional intelligence and self-awareness.

The postholder will be responsible for, but not limited to:

Project management team for organisation and delivery of the new Under 10s and 12 run, jump and throw funetics multi events challenge (FMC) at England Athletics, embedding this systemically into EA member clubs, competition providers and schools across England.

Working with external stakeholders and partners such as Sportshall Athletics, proactively to better understand their support needs, providing resources, timely responses to questions, and in creating national buy into this programme ahead of April 2026.

Taking a lead in producing a 365 all year-round youth competition calendar offer for Under 10s and 12s in England working closely with key stakeholders such as Sportshall Athletics, YST, the SGO network and member clubs.

Advising existing competition providers in England around event organisation, product development and athlete experience to embed both Funetics Multi Challenge and Sportshall into the member club offer in a systemic and developmental way.

Hosting online webinars, conferences, meetings with key stakeholder and partners to better promote the Under 10 and 12 competition format concept and to encourage networking and collaboration between clubs and providers, particularly at county and local level.

Support the roll out of a number of FMC Community festivals in the lead up to and including the European Athletic Championships 2026

Manage the Personal Best (PB) Awards

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

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