Tennis Development Officer

Organisation: Surrey Sports Park Guildford
Salary: 27125
Location: Guildford
Contract type: Permanent (Full time)
Closing date: 23 August 2025
Interview date: 28 August 2025
Job Description: A great opportunity to get involved right at the heart of student sport at the University of Surrey as Head of Tennis. The University of Surrey has recently opened a state of the art, three-court indoor dome, to add to our existing five outdoor courts that we have at Surrey Sports Park. Team Surrey is actively seeking to recruit a Head of Tennis to drive student tennis participation forward and support our community tennis programme on an ad hoc basis.

The role holder will be responsible for the development and implementation of a new and ongoing strategy for tennis, with an emphasis on the development of the University tennis programme for students to meet our aspiration of going from an LTA Tier 2 to Tier 3 site. The role holder will also be responsible for maximising the usage of the facility and generating additional income streams through the indoor dome. This will be achieved by building partnerships and relationships with key stakeholders including The Lawn Tennis Association (LTA), local tennis clubs, schools, colleges, and the wider community to ensure collaborative working is maximised.

Role & Responsibilities:

Deliver the new and ongoing tennis strategy through engagement with multiple stakeholders increasing active participation in tennis within the University. Attract high level tennis athletes to study and compete at the university to support our strategy target of having 200 athletes on our Dual Career Programme across Team Surrey clubs by 2028.

Workforce - providing a pathway for students or external tennis professionals in officiating, coaching and other key support areas to help deliver the program. To support on creating sustainable revenue and income streams for the indoor dome facility throughout the year.

Team Surrey’s tagline “Move | Play | Perform”, encourages everyone to be involved in physical activity, ensuring that everything is reasonably adjusted to meet anyone’s ability, experience, and interest. Offering for tennis is inclusive by providing a variety of different coaching and practice sessions, camp activity, competitive matches and tournaments. Expectation to be on-court coaching for around 15 hours per week.
Remaining time to be spent on the growth and long-term strategy of tennis to support our department target of engaging 12,000 students in Team Surrey by 2028.

What’s in it for you?

We think Surrey is an amazing place to work, and we are carefully crafting a dynamic, flexible, and fun place to work and thrive. Our campus is a beautiful, leafy environment with carefully designed gardens, vibrant green playing fields, and a picturesque lake. With the buzz of student life and superb working facilities, the University is a global community of ideas and people, dedicated to life-changing education and research in an inspiring, innovative and diverse environment. Alongside our gorgeous campus setting, collegiate on-site atmosphere and plentiful development opportunities.
How to apply: https://jobs.surrey.ac.uk/038725