Senior Lead, Major Sporting Events (Strategy)
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 30 Mai 2025 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | Competitive |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 29 Mehefin 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Manchester, M2 3AW |
| Cwmni: | inploi |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 75705631 |
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The Major Sporting Projects Delivery Directorate is a new directorate within DCMS’ Policy Group. It will oversee the Government’s input to some of the highest profile programmes in the world of sport. Amongst the projects and programmes covered by the team are:
- The future pipeline of major sporting events - driving forward the Government's work, with partners, to secure, and successfully host, the world’s biggest and best sporting events, including the women’s Rugby World Cup 2025.
- The UEFA European Championships 2028 - ensuring the Government delivers on its commitments to ensure that this major event is staged successfully, maximising economic growth and benefiting local communities. This programme is part of the Government Major Projects Portfolio.
- Grassroots facilities delivery - overseeing the delivery of hundreds of millions into multi-sport grassroots facilities across the UK, as part of the EURO 2028 impact programme and to tackle inactivity, support the Health mission and build cohesive communities through providing access to high quality shared sporting spaces.
The directorate is evolving out of a unit within the existing Sport and Gambling Directorate, with which it will need to continue working seamlessly.
The team prioritises a positive workplace culture, where colleagues are committed to excellence in delivery, ongoing personal development, a supportive working environment, and operating seamlessly with colleagues and stakeholders based across the UK, and beyond.
Job description- Overseeing the Government’s role in supporting bids to host mega and major sporting events, including future event target propositions and other opportunities identified in line with UK Sport’s hosting target list.
- Management of cross-Government engagement (via the cross-Government Major Events network) and external stakeholder engagement, with UK Sport and Sport England amongst others.
- Leading Government aspects of delivery of secured events such as the Women’s Rugby World Cup 2025. This includes ensuring government support is in place, including financial arrangements, cross-Government guarantees, and ensuring strategic join-up with related policy areas.
- Working closely alongside colleagues in the EURO 28 delivery team to ensure join-up where relevant, in particular in the progression of legislation to support major sporting events.
- Drafting PQs, correspondence, inputs to briefings and other papers on major sporting events and responding to ad hoc requests or enquiries on events, and briefing Ministers as required
- Retaining a level of flexibility to adapt to urgent and pressing matters as and when they arise.
The ideal candidate would have the following key skills and experience:
Essential requirements:
- Demonstrates excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Demonstrates the ability to work efficiently and effectively in a fast paced environment, prioritising competing demands
- Excellent strategic thinking skills with experience working across multiple teams and organisations to manage competing organisational priorities
- Excellent stakeholder management skills, including collaborating across a complex stakeholder landscape, managing senior stakeholders and tackling difficult conversations
- Demonstrate strong evidence-based policy development and analysis skills
Desirable skills:
- Experience drafting business cases and supporting projects through financial approvals
- Experience of major event or major sporting event delivery
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Seeing the Big Picture
- Delivering at Pace
- Making Effective Decisions
- Working Together
We are running an information session where prospective applicants can find out more about the role. This will be hosted by Grace Lilley and will take place on:
- Tuesday, 3rd June at 2 PM
The session will be an opportunity to hear more about the role, the team and wider directorate and the department. It will also be an opportunity for you to ask any questions.
Please register your interest by filling out this Please register your interest by filling out this registration form by 12pm, Monday 2nd June and you will be sent an invitation.
Please note that the session will not be recorded and will not focus on the DCMS recruitment process - please direct any queries that you have on this topic (timelines, reasonable adjustments, onboarding etc) to recruitment.team@dcms.gov.uk
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