Job description
About the Team
What will you be doing?
- You'll manage some of Grassroots Football's core datasets, ensuring the division's data and reports are accurate and comprehensive
- You'll help build and maintain a new suite of reporting dashboards that will allow us to track the progress of our new 2024-2028 Grassroots Strategy
- You'll derive actionable insights from Grassroots data to inform decisions, from adjusting Grassroots technology features based on user feedback to informing marketing campaigns that help keep players in the game
- You'll work closely with teams across the Grassroots division to understand, capture and bring to life data and reporting requirements
- You'll be one of the go-to people for Grassroots data at The FA, regularly presenting updates to the wider team on new dashboard development and insights
- You'll have a customer-first mentality, responding to queries from Grassroots and County FA staff promptly and professionally
- You'll be driven by quality, taking a comprehensive approach to understanding and documenting data journeys and applying a quality assurance approach to everything you do
- You'll collaborate with other members of the Grassroots Digital & Data Strategy Team and the Data Architecture Team to identify and resolve data and reporting issues
- 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.
What are we looking for?
- You have experience working with Power BI and Excel
- You have experience combining and analysing data across multiple data sources
- You have experience managing complex datasets
- You have experience building strong relationships with collaborators and engaging stakeholders from across business divisions
- Communicative: You can convey complex, technical concepts simply and effectively, adapting your communication for different audiences
- Organised: You are comfortable managing recurring and ad-hoc reporting queries and working to deadlines
- Customer-first: You respond promptly and professionally to questions from colleagues
- Collaborative: You're a team player and you are energised by working with colleagues across the business
- Driven by quality: You strive for data quality with structured and accurate working methods.
- Proactive: You have an ability to identify and act on issues and opportunities before they arise.
- Technical: You have basic SQL and/or DAX skills
- You have played a role within grassroots football – as a player, referee, and/or team/club admin – or another sport
- You have experience gathering requirements from the business and translating them into dashboards and reports that meet the business' needs
- You have experience with Google Analytics
- Technical: Some experience with SQL and/or DAX (or eagerness to learn if not)
What's in it for you?
- Access to event day tickets at Wembley Stadium, alongside a host of regular internal events throughout the season encouraging you to connect and learn with your colleagues and look after your mental health and wellbeing.
- Free, nutritious lunches, at Wembley Stadium and St. George's Park.
- Free private medical cover.
- A contributory pension scheme.
- An additional Thank You days leave, volunteering days as well as 25 days annual leave.
- A hybrid working model offering flexibility on where you work.
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