Leadership & Management Lead Organisation UK Sport Salary Grade 7 - £74,900 per annum plus generous benefits. Location Loughborough, London or Manchester based, with regular remote working. Contract type Permanent (Full time) Closing date 19 April 2026 Interview date 6 May 2026 Job Description Who are UK Sport?We are the UK’s trusted high-performance experts, powering our greatest 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 we are the government’s lead technical agency for major events in the UK. We work closely with our sporting, national and regional partners to ensure that the UK successfully bids for and stages some of the world’s biggest international sporting events. Our purpose is 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. That mission is underpinned by three ambitions for UK high-performance sport; 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 our partner organisations across the UK high-performance system, we are building on 25 years of ever-growing success to write the UK’s next chapter for Olympic and Paralympic sport.About the RoleThis is a rare and exciting opportunity to shape the leadership and management capabilities of the UK’s high performance system. As Leadership & Management Services Lead, you will design, lead and operationally activate a system wide development offer that strengthens the capability of senior leaders — including CEOs, Chairs, Performance Directors and Heads of Performance Services.Working within our Learning & Development Team, you will build the strategic judgement, critical thinking, people leadership and reflective practice required for leaders to create environments where athletes, coaches and performance teams can thrive.You will lead the evolution of a modern, evidence informed development offer that meets the demands of high performance contexts and supports leaders across complex, fast paced, multi stakeholder environments.What you’ll lead and deliverStrategic Leadership• Shape and lead a system wide leadership and management development strategy that is future focused and evidence informed.• Identify emerging leadership trends, risks and opportunities, translating insights into actionable development priorities.Operational Activation & Delivery Excellence• Oversee high quality delivery across programmes, networks, communities and leadership interventions.• Design, deliver and facilitate role specific and interdisciplinary learning experiences.• Manage the Leadership & Management Advisor and Leadership Associate Pool.• Ensure seamless integration with learning solutions, performance, people and culture teams.Building Leadership Capability & Communities• Embed critical thinking, reflective practice and strategic judgement across the leadership system.• Develop partnerships with academic institutions, external experts and high performance organisations.• Lead the development of leadership communities, knowledge exchange opportunities and innovative learning laboratories.Insight, Evaluation & Continuous Improvement• Use data, insight, evaluation and feedback to continuously improve leadership development interventions.• Drive evidence based decision making and ensure impact measures inform future priorities.About youYou are an experienced senior leadership development professional, confident working in complex, high performance or elite environments. You bring:Essential• Significant experience developing senior leaders at executive level.• Expertise in leadership and management theory, with awareness of emerging and future trends.• Exceptional facilitation, coaching and interpersonal skills.• Strong strategic thinking, systems awareness and political acuity.• Ability to translate complex concepts into practical, high impact learning experiences.• Experience mobilising and iterating leadership services to build system capability.• Ability to analyse workforce and leadership data to inform priorities.• Experience enabling rapid decisions that lead to operational impact.Desirable• Experience leading high performance teams or programmes.• Experience developing senior leadership teams or boards.• Experience designing or implementing positive action leadership development initiatives. How to apply https://uksport.current-vacancies.com/Jobs/Advert/4144620?cid=3176 Share X LinkedIn Email