Strategic Development and delivery

• Lead the continued development and evolution of the FA’s Female Health and Wellbeing Framework to ensure it remains fit for purpose and impactful over the next strategic cycle;
• Manage the relationship of a core portfolio of internal and external stakeholders supporting the Female Health and Wellbeing Strategy;

Alignment and centralisation

• Manage core objectives within the Female Health and Wellbeing Framework including:

• Driving the creation of centralised eco-system of trusted expertise, skills and partners within female health and wellbeing to enable us to quality assure learning and development opportunities
• Cross business communications
• Ensuring game wide consistency and alignment of female athlete health messaging
• Building a game wide plan for research
• Identify interdependencies, duplicate and complementary workstreams and cross-business opportunities for greater efficiency and connected working as well as identify, manage and report project risks.

Project and Budget Management

• Deliver effective governance, reporting and communication processes for the successful delivery of the Female Health and Wellbeing strategy;
• Lead the Female Health and Wellbeing cross divisional project group and represent the project group at senior leadership level;
• Own and track core measures of success and deliverables across female health and wellbeing for the 24-28 strategy;
• Be responsible for the development of reporting, monitoring and tracking progress for the game wide delivery plan for Female Health and Wellbeing;
• Manage the female health and wellbeing core budget;

Business Planning

• Ensure female health and wellbeing is embedded into all relevant departmental business plans each year;
• Support/ facilitate the creation of and oversee year on year delivery plans across each strategic pillar of the female health and well-being strategy, ensuring female health and wellbeing is embedded into all relevant departmental business plans.
• Executes additional tasks as required in order to meet FA Group changing priorities.
• Comply with all company policies and procedures to ensure the highest standards of health, safety and wellbeing can be maintained.
• As part of The FA’s commitment to ensuring a safe environment for everyone in football, every employee will be required to complete a DBS check. The level of the check required will be based on the activity of the specific job role and in line with legislation and government guidance.

Essential for the role:

• Ability to effectively build positive working relationships across a wide range of stakeholders;
• Comfortable and competent with the big picture and translating into operational plans;
• Ability to build consensus across multiple stakeholders;
• Able to be challenge and to challenge respectfully;
• Excellent interpersonal, communication and relationship building skills;
• Experience of successful programme and project leadership;
• Excellent presentation skills to a wide range of stakeholders
• Excellent organisational and planning skills;
• Clean, full driving licence.

Beneficial to have:

• Excellent influencing and negotiation skills;
• Proven ability to work across a wide range of stakeholders internal and external;