Sport Advisor (maternity cover)

Organisation: UK Sport
Salary: £50,000 - £65,000 career graded role
Location: Field Based
Contract type: Fixed Term (Full time)
Closing date: 2 June 2025
Interview date: 9 June 2025
Job Description: Sport Advisor Maternity cover – Sporting System Team

Organisation: UK Sport.

Salary: £50,000 - £65,000 (career graded role)

Location: Field-based

Contract Type: Fixed term up to 12 months

Closing Date: 2 June

Interview Dates: Interviews are likely to be online on 9th June with a second round in person on 16th June in London (These dates may be subject to change)

About the role

This is a maternity cover position, for up to 12 months.

Do you want to be part of a brilliant, highly collaborative, and purpose-led team that will directly shape the British Olympic and Paralympic sporting system on and off the field of play?

As a Sport Advisor, you will build trusted relationships with UK Sport partners receiving development investment on both their performance activity and their NGB (National Governing Body)’s organisational health.

In your performance capacity, you’ll provide support and guidance to NGB support personnel to enable the successful implementation of their performance strategy. You'll also work alongside CEOs and Boards on the organisational health agenda (as defined by our Organisational Health Diagnostic).

Career graded roles have been introduced to encourage appointments to be made on potential and therefore diversify the talent available to UK Sport. Performance Advisor (PA) and Sport Advisor (SA) posts, including Leads, are career graded roles. The details and process behind being appointed to a career graded role will be discussed at interview and all appointments will be made within the advertised salary band.

About you

DESIRABLE SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE

You will have a deep understanding of the UK sporting landscape.

You will have applied knowledge of performance development, experience working with performance programmes, and/ or knowledge of the key components of organisational health.

You will have significant and demonstrable experience in building trusting relationships.

You will be able to demonstrate the ability to think strategically and work proactively across complex agendas.

You will be highly collaborative and inclusive in your approach.

You will have problem-solving, analytical and independent working skills.

Who are UK Sport?

We are the UK’s trusted high-performance experts, powering our most outstanding athletes, teams, sports and events to achieve positive success. Investing a combination of National Lottery and Government funds, we support our Olympic and Paralympic sports to realise their world-leading potential and help bring major sporting events to the UK. We aim to lead high-performance sport to enable extraordinary moments that enrich lives.

We are on a mission – to create the greatest decade of extraordinary sporting moments, reaching, inspiring and uniting the nation. Three ambitions for UK high-performance sport underpin that mission: to keep winning and win well, to grow a thriving sporting system and to harness those to inspire positive change. Working with the sports and events we fund, DCMS and partner organisations across the UK high-performance system, we build on 25 years of ever-growing success to write the UK’s next chapter for Olympic and Paralympic sport.

UK Sport also offers a competitive benefit package that includes:
• Defined contribution pension scheme.
• Employer pension contribution of 10%.
• 6 weeks Annual Leave.
• A flexible approach to working where possible.
• Interest-free season ticket loans.
• Enhanced Maternity/Paternity/Parental Leave.
• Healthy Lifestyle allowance of up to £600 per year.
• Cycle to Work Scheme.
How to apply: How to apply To apply and for the full job description, please log in to our recruitment portal and follow the instructions at the following link: https://www.cloudonlinerecruitment.co.uk/uksport/ We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace culture where difference is embraced, and exceptional talents can flourish. We strongly encourage applicants from all backgrounds and walks of life. As we strive to ensure our workforce is more reflective of UK society, we particularly welcome applications from people with ethnically diverse backgrounds, disabilities, or long-term health conditions, as these groups are currently underrepresented at UK Sport. We offer a guaranteed interview to applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role if: • They have a physical or mental impairment that has a “substantial” and “long-term” adverse effect on their ability to do normal daily activities, or • Those who do not identify as White British/English/Welsh/Scottish/Northern Irish To qualify, you must demonstrate in your application that you meet the minimum criteria for the role and belong to one of the above groups. If you have a disability, please get in touch with us to discuss any adjustments you may need at the interview or in the role if you are successful. UK SPORT IS PROUD TO BE AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES EMPLOYER. We are determined to lead by example and strive to be a role model organisation in all we do in equality, diversity, and inclusion, from leadership to delivery.