Academy Football Analyst London, England
Job description
We are looking for a full-time Academy Football Analyst to support in maintaining the club's relevant analytics processes and workflows. By providing insightful performance analysis to the Academy, at the youth development phase.
Who we are
We are one of the most famous clubs in world football, with a rich heritage and history of success – read more about our history, here.
Beyond that, we are passionate about our local community and, behind the scenes, we have a wide variety of opportunities and career paths for all. We have a very defined purpose: to act for a winning team, culture and community. We achieve this by ensuring we are courageous in the pursuit of progress, we champion our community and each other, and that we do the right thing (even when no one is looking).
Arsenal Football Academy is the football development department for Arsenal Football Club, based at Hale End Sports Ground and London Colney, offering a full-time football training programme for elite youth players.
Our academy has for many years been a world leader in its field. The aim of the Arsenal Football Academy is to individually tailor each player’s development as a footballer by providing a World Class Youth Development programme. The programme promotes the development of elite training environments to consistently outperform international competition. By placing players at the heart of the programme, the aim is to develop and grow Strong Young Gunners, within the most challenging and caring football academy in the world.
Each player’s development is therefore considered holistically with focus placed on supporting players to show Respect, Discipline and Humility as they aspire towards becoming better people and consequently, better players.
Your day-to-day
Providing football analysis support to designated team(s) assigned based on age group. This support includes:
- Delivering an analysis programme to selected academy age groups, players and coaches.
- Filming and coding of home matches and away matches where required.
- Overseeing the management of the capture of training footage within the assigned phase, In order to provide material to feedback to both players and coaches.
- Building content for the weekly analysis sessions and leading the delivery when required.
- Ensuring that the individual player programmes are monitored, and content is generated for reviews & progression meetings.
- Supporting the continuous development of the academy’s learning resources – Academy playing philosophy and position-specific profiles.
- Overseeing the management of the building individual, unit and team best practice libraries (Training & Matches).
- Coordinating with the relevant medical, physiotherapy, fitness and football staff regarding player performance.
Match-day analysis:
- Providing film and coding support for matches in the academy, where possible, live feedback to the coaches.
Ad-Hoc analysis:
- Assisting in the development of the department and play an active role in aggressively pushing boundaries in order to achieve its targets.
- Assistance with any analysis processes across the academy may be required, but on an ad- hoc basis.
- Providing support to the Coach Developer, in the collection of learning resources for assigned phase coaches.
What we are looking for
Specific experience:
- Previous experience of working within professional football in order to understand the unique nature of football culture and how best to apply the principles and fulfil the role of a performance analyst.
- Experience working at professional academy level (Essential).
- Experience accurately analysing multiple and often complex data streams in order to understand performance.
- Experience implementing telestration tools (Desirable).
- Experience in delivering and communicating performance insights to key stakeholders in the organisation.
- Experience of observing and/or being subjected to different sporting environments
- Understanding of varying working methodologies and best practice within elite sports analysis.
Abilities/Skills/Knowledge:
- Ability to link theory to practice in a practical environment.
- Ability to retain a very high standard of output whilst operating within deadlines.
- Technical and tactical understanding of football (strategies, systems, philosophies, game models).
- Exceptional inter-personal skills that facilitate the effective delivery of performance insights, build connections and support a strong team cohesion – Building strong relationship with our players.
- Ability to adapt to emerging technologies and their application in automating working processes.
- Strong desire to continuously challenge, learn and move forward.
- Ability to work within a dynamic team but comfortable managing own workflow/deadlines.
Education:
- Minimum undergraduate degree relating to the field of sports science, coaching and performance or performance analysis
Qualifications:
- FA Level 2 coaching license or above is preferable
Training:
- Competencies in the following software/hardware are desired: Game On Technologies, SBG Match Tracker & Focus, HUDL products and platforms.
- Comprehensive understanding of Tableau (Advantage)
Why choose us
At Arsenal, we want everyone to feel a sense of trust and belonging, so we are proud of both our club values and also what we offer to our employees. As one of our Gunners, you will receive:
- An exciting reward and recognition scheme
- Generous holiday allowance which increases with your length of service
- Great internal learning and development programmes
- A flexible hybrid working model
- Priority access to apply for match tickets
- A competitive health and wellbeing benefits package
- A leading Employee Assistance Programme
- Great discounts with some of our Partners
Arsenal for Everyone
Arsenal for Everyone is our commitment to promoting and embracing equality, diversity and inclusion, so that everyone connected to the club feels like they belong to the same Arsenal family. We believe that diversity of background, skills and experience drives our success on and off the pitch.
Disability Confident Leader
We are a Disability Confident Leader. We actively welcome applications from people with disabilities and long-term health conditions. If you need disability-related adjustments to the recruitment process, please indicate this in your application.
If you are likely to meet the definition of being a ‘disabled person’ according to the Equality Act 2010, we will offer you an interview if you meet the minimum criteria for a role. Please choose the option of a guaranteed interview on your application form. The information you share with us about your health or disability will not be used in recruitment decisions.
