Performance Advisor
| Posting date: | 27 February 2026 |
|---|---|
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 13 March 2026 |
| Location: | nationwide |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | UK Sport |
| Job type: | Permanent |
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Summary
Performance Advisor
Organisation: UK Sport.
Salary: Grade 5 (£53,000) or Grade 6 (£61,800)
This role is a career-grade role. The role may be appointed at either grade depending on experience, with scope for progression in line with performance and development.
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 a Performance Advisor, you’ll work closely with a portfolio of World Class Programmes, building trusted relationships and helping sports develop the capability to deliver sustainable success across Olympic and Paralympic cycles.
You’ll take a whole-system view of performance, using the performance iceberg framework to understand what’s working, where support is needed, and how we can add the greatest value. You won’t do this alone – you’ll connect sports with the right expertise across UK Sport and the wider system.
What you’ll be doing
In this role, you will:
• Build strong, influential relationships with Performance Directors and senior leaders across your sports portfolio
• Act as the key UK Sport relationship manager for performance matters within your sports
• Use insight, professional judgement and the performance iceberg framework to monitor progress, identify risk and highlight opportunity
• Help sports maximise the return on public investment, while setting and assuring standards for world-class delivery
• Work in close partnership with Sport Advisors (NGB) to ensure joined-up support and fair, robust evaluation
• Lead a key project or priority area for UK Sport, sharing your subject matter expertise across the system
• Contribute to a learning culture by mentoring peers, sharing insight and capturing “gold standard” practice
This role involves spending time in sport environments, building real understanding of how programmes operate in practice.
What we’re looking for
We’re interested in what you bring, not just where you’ve worked. You might come from coaching, performance leadership, sport science, system leadership or another high-performance pathway.
You’ll bring:
• Strong relationship-building skills and the credibility to influence senior stakeholders
• Experience working in high-performance sport environments
• Subject matter expertise across three or more areas of the performance iceberg (with curiosity and willingness to learn more)
• Confidence using insight and judgement to support decision-making and investment conversations
• The ability to work independently while contributing to a collaborative, learning-focused team
• Degree-level education or equivalent experience
This is a career-graded role, meaning we’ll support your development over time. If you join at Grade 5, you’ll start with project delivery and build breadth and depth over 12–18 months, with a clear progression pathway agreed during probation.
Organisation: UK Sport.
Salary: Grade 5 (£53,000) or Grade 6 (£61,800)
This role is a career-grade role. The role may be appointed at either grade depending on experience, with scope for progression in line with performance and development.
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 a Performance Advisor, you’ll work closely with a portfolio of World Class Programmes, building trusted relationships and helping sports develop the capability to deliver sustainable success across Olympic and Paralympic cycles.
You’ll take a whole-system view of performance, using the performance iceberg framework to understand what’s working, where support is needed, and how we can add the greatest value. You won’t do this alone – you’ll connect sports with the right expertise across UK Sport and the wider system.
What you’ll be doing
In this role, you will:
• Build strong, influential relationships with Performance Directors and senior leaders across your sports portfolio
• Act as the key UK Sport relationship manager for performance matters within your sports
• Use insight, professional judgement and the performance iceberg framework to monitor progress, identify risk and highlight opportunity
• Help sports maximise the return on public investment, while setting and assuring standards for world-class delivery
• Work in close partnership with Sport Advisors (NGB) to ensure joined-up support and fair, robust evaluation
• Lead a key project or priority area for UK Sport, sharing your subject matter expertise across the system
• Contribute to a learning culture by mentoring peers, sharing insight and capturing “gold standard” practice
This role involves spending time in sport environments, building real understanding of how programmes operate in practice.
What we’re looking for
We’re interested in what you bring, not just where you’ve worked. You might come from coaching, performance leadership, sport science, system leadership or another high-performance pathway.
You’ll bring:
• Strong relationship-building skills and the credibility to influence senior stakeholders
• Experience working in high-performance sport environments
• Subject matter expertise across three or more areas of the performance iceberg (with curiosity and willingness to learn more)
• Confidence using insight and judgement to support decision-making and investment conversations
• The ability to work independently while contributing to a collaborative, learning-focused team
• Degree-level education or equivalent experience
This is a career-graded role, meaning we’ll support your development over time. If you join at Grade 5, you’ll start with project delivery and build breadth and depth over 12–18 months, with a clear progression pathway agreed during probation.
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