Education Workforce Officer

Organisation: UKAD
Salary: £27,500 - £29,190
Location: Hybrid (WFH / SportPark, Loughborough)
Contract type: Permanent (Full time)
Closing date: 1 September 2025
Job Description: UK Anti-Doping (UKAD) is on a mission to protect clean sport and currently has an exciting opportunity available for you to join us.

We’re looking to recruit an Education Workforce Officer joining the Education team to play an active role in the delivery of our Education Strategy by coordinating the recruitment, training, accreditation, and deployment of UKAD’s Education Delivery Network (EDN).

About us

Our purpose:

To ensure doping-free sport, promoting and protecting clean sport through education, testing and enforcement.

Our values:

Integrity – We do what is right for clean sport, we are equitable and ethical, ensuring everyone is treated fairly and with respect.

Collaboration – We work together and with others, sharing knowledge and building relationships to better tackle doping.

Excellence – We strive to achieve high standards in the protection of clean sport, evolving with the times and finding solutions.

Passion – We are dedicated to keeping sport clean, are proud of what we do and know it matters.

Job purpose

You will coordinate the ongoing organisation of scheduled training and development of the wider EDN, coordinating the allocation of National Trainers, as well as facilitating the relevant Quality Assurance (QA) processes ensuring the EDN maintains high delivery standards.

Key result areas include:

- Develop and maintain supportive relationships with the EDN, helping
to support their training and continuous professional development
- Create and maintain QA processes to ensure a consistent high
standard of delivery across National Trainers and Educators.
- Develop and maintain effective positive relationships with the EDN
and stakeholders to support the implementation of education and information programmes
- Fulfil secretariat duties in the organisation and delivery of the
quarterly NT Steering Group meetings
- Support the EDN with utilising the Clean Sport Hub as a monitoring
and evaluation tool
- Coordinating the relationship with the warehouse provider to action
resource and merchandise requests from stakeholders.
- Coordinate all NT allocations for 100% me and Major Games
- Education sessions in association with the Performance Pathway
Education Lead.
- Coordinate the resources required by the EDN through ShareFile,
including regular reviews and content creation
- Contribute to team deliverables as outlined in the annual education
plan, including contributing to business reporting and the 2027 World
- Anti-doping code implementation project
- Support the Digital Learning and Workforce Manager in assessing
risk, budget challenges and viability of programmes, escalating risks
in a timely manner

Person specification

Qualifications/experience/knowledge

- Experience of coordinating and supervising a tutor (or equivalent)
workforce, including training, deployment and quality assurance
- Experience of project management including planning, scheduling
tasks and evaluating against agreed milestones
- Experience of supporting organisations to deliver against agreed
outcomes
- Experience of working within in an education and/or in a sport-related
organisation
- Demonstrable experience of team working and ethos of ‘can do’
whilst showing understanding and sensitivity to others’ views and
objectives
- Experience in handling sensitive and confidential information
- Have a passion for sport and an interest in UKAD activities and the
UK sporting landscape.

Skills

- Organisational skills and the ability to meet deadlines consistently
- Demonstrable ability to communicate effectively with a range of
audiences, including well-developed presentation skills and public
speaking experience
- Ability to develop, and support a diverse workforce of remote workers
- Ability to build and sustain relationships with a network of key people
internally and externally
- Self-awareness, and excellent interpersonal skills, such as self-
reflection, influencing, negotiation and communication skills
- Ability to actively listen, when giving and receiving feedback
- Ability to see things from a learner’s point of view to inform education
and information programme development
- Competent Microsoft Office user and knowledge of wider software
packages including webinar software
- Excellent attention to detail
How to apply: Our values are at the heart of what we do, so if they align with you and you’re up for the fight against doping in sport, please complete the online application - https://careers.ukad.org.uk/jobs/6235137-education-workforce-officer The deadline for applications is 11:59pm on 01 September 2025. Interviews will take place on 09 and 10 September 2025 at SportPark, Loughborough. We are a disability confident employer and actively welcome applications from people with disabilities and long-term health conditions. If you meet the definition of ‘being a disabled person’ according to the Equality Act 2010 and meet the minimum criteria for the role, you may be eligible to apply for an interview via the Disability Confident Scheme and will have the opportunity let us know as part of your application. Please note that UK Anti-Doping are currently unable to provide Visa Sponsorship.