Academy Lead Analyst

Portsmouth Community Football Club Limited

Organisation: Portsmouth Community Football Club Limited
Salary: £28,000 to £30,000
Location: 442 Copnor road, Portsmouth PO3 5EW
Contract type: Permanent (Full time)
Closing date: 11 July 2025
Job Description: Job title: Academy Lead Analyst

Location: Pompey FC Training Ground and various locations

Hours of work: Full-time; 37.5 hours per week

Reports to: Academy Manager

Remuneration: £28,000 -£30,000Join Our Team – Be Part of Pompey’s Future

We are Pompey — proud of our past, passionate about our future, and powered by our people. We’re a club that values honesty, unity, and hard work. Now, we’re looking for someone who shares those values to join our academy.

This is a great opportunity for a dynamic and detail oriented individual, who takes pride in their work, is hands-on, and wants to be part of something bigger — supporting and leading our academy analysis department.

Role summary

The role holder must have prior paid experience in performance analysis and must be able to display strong organisational skills in their work structure. A primary aspect of the role is around the pro-active management of the analysis coverage across the whole academy. Leading a small team of interns, you will be highly competent in supporting the development of others and presenting instructions in a clear and concise manner.

Acting as the primary figurehead for the video analysis of the U18 daily training and games programme, you will use this process to help contribute to pre and post-game presentations and to support the measurement of the playing (player development) & (team performance) and coaching curriculum across the whole academy.

Embedded within a multi-disciplinary team, you will be expected to promote analytical findings to help inform decisions around player performance, selection, and retention.

Management and deployment of interns and analysis equipment must be appropriately structured to ensure a broad coverage and recording of games of all U9-U18 age groups is achieved.

Requirements of the role:

- Design and deliver robust and effective analysis processes and protocols in line with the coaching staff and academy playing and coaching philosophy.
- Film and analyse U18 training when required.
- Use analysis processes to create bespoke and engaging pre and post-match team/unit/individual meetings for players and coaches.
- Contribute to the creation of an individualised learning plan for each PDP Player and work with other Phase Leads to ensure this is supported from an analysis perspective across the academy.
- Collate and present performance data on all U15-U18 players to support individual player development and team performance.
- Work with the Head of Education to contribute to scholar player SEP analysis related education.
- Manage a team of interns and support their development, whilst organising their involvement in the wider academy analysis delivery.
- Innovate to discover new ways of using analysis to support decision making.
- Ensure academy wide fixtures are uploaded to Hudl.
- Create, deliver, and participate in Academy specific or wider club wide CPD events.
- Manage and maintain the analysis equipment provision and advise on departmental needs.
- Collaborate with the Academy manager and other senior staff to positively contribute to the Academy management team performance.

About The Candidate:

Essential qualifications & skills:

- MSc Sports Analysis Performance (completed) or other relevant master’s degree.
- 1+ years’ experience working in an analysis department within a sports environment
- Comprehensive knowledge and user experience of Sports Code software.
- Experience working in an analysis department within a sport environment.
- Experience using Hudl Pro and managing multiple video libraries.
- Experience in organisisng data collection processed and managing large data sets.
- FA Safeguarding Children certificate
- Strong verbal and written skills
- Proactive decision maker who can lead on analysis projects.
- Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines
- A dynamic and confident team player
- IT Skills (Hudl/ Sports Code/ Keynote/ PowerPoint/ PMA/ My Concern systems preferable.

Desirable qualifications & skills:

- UEFA ‘C’ license
- Staff line management experience
- Drone License
- Experience in data visualisation/ data programming (e.g. Python, R, Tableau).

Guidance to consider

Please consider the below before applying:

- Given the training locations, having a driving licence and frequent access to a car is essential and living within a daily commutable distance from Portsmouth is required.
- Right to work in the UK at the time of applying and an enhanced DBS check will be undertaken.
- The hours of work for this position will include a blend of weekday, evenings, and weekend work.
How to apply: How to apply: The Club will not consider applications via third parties. To apply send your CV and cover letter to HR@pompeyfc.co.uk, no later than 1pm on Friday 18th July, 2025. Initial stage one Interviews will be held from 21st July, 2025 with stage two the week commencing Aug 4th, 2025. For stage two, candidates must be in the country and will be expected to attend in person. Candidates may be interviewed prior to the closing date if deemed suitable. If you don’t hear from us within 7 days of the closing date, please consider that your application was unsuccessful. At Portsmouth Football Club we are committed to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion and we aim to build an accurate picture of the make-up for our talent pools. Therefore, we ask that you submit the information on the below link to ensure we are always attracting a broad and diverse range of exceptional talent from all areas of society. Responses are anonymous and the data gathered will be used to inform our future initiatives but filling in this form is voluntary. https://forms.gle/H7NmjG95fgLSaWPD7