Performance Partnerships & Programme Management Lead
| Posting date: | 15 December 2025 |
|---|---|
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 06 January 2026 |
| Location: | London, Loughborough, Manchester |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 4 days per week |
| Company: | UK Sport |
| Job type: | Permanent |
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Summary
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 Role
As Partnerships & Programme Management Lead, you’ll sit at the heart of British high-performance sport. Your mission? Strengthen the strategic partnership between UK Sport and the UK Sports Institute (UKSI), ensuring world-class support for athletes and sports.
You’ll lead programme management across the system, oversee governance and decision-making forums, and make sure planning and assurance cycles deliver impact. From driving collaboration to managing risks and shaping future strategy, this role is about influence, insight, and operational excellence.
You’ll also line manage the Performance Programme Manager, championing development and guiding the team to deliver results that matter.
Key Responsibilities
• Act as the strategic advisor for UKSI within UK Sport’s Performance & People directorate.
• Lead planning and assurance cycles for system-wide performance support.
• Oversee governance structures and decision-making forums – ensuring transparency and best practice.
• Drive collaboration between UKSI, UK Sport, and system partners to improve athlete experience.
• Provide challenge and support to senior leaders on service delivery and quality assurance.
• Identify and resolve risks, issues, and performance gaps.
• Lead insights, evaluations, and reporting to shape future strategy.
• Manage the relationship with the performance board subgroup.
• Line manage the Performance Programme Manager and support professional development.
A full role overview is available in the Job Description.
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 Role
As Partnerships & Programme Management Lead, you’ll sit at the heart of British high-performance sport. Your mission? Strengthen the strategic partnership between UK Sport and the UK Sports Institute (UKSI), ensuring world-class support for athletes and sports.
You’ll lead programme management across the system, oversee governance and decision-making forums, and make sure planning and assurance cycles deliver impact. From driving collaboration to managing risks and shaping future strategy, this role is about influence, insight, and operational excellence.
You’ll also line manage the Performance Programme Manager, championing development and guiding the team to deliver results that matter.
Key Responsibilities
• Act as the strategic advisor for UKSI within UK Sport’s Performance & People directorate.
• Lead planning and assurance cycles for system-wide performance support.
• Oversee governance structures and decision-making forums – ensuring transparency and best practice.
• Drive collaboration between UKSI, UK Sport, and system partners to improve athlete experience.
• Provide challenge and support to senior leaders on service delivery and quality assurance.
• Identify and resolve risks, issues, and performance gaps.
• Lead insights, evaluations, and reporting to shape future strategy.
• Manage the relationship with the performance board subgroup.
• Line manage the Performance Programme Manager and support professional development.
A full role overview is available in the Job Description.
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