Places Manager

Protecting and opening places to play is a fundamental pillar of our strategy. We are seeking a talented and passionate individual to help us implement the places pillar of our strategy, ensuring that current places to play are protected and that more facilities are made available to facilitate the growth of badminton.

You will develop the tools, resources and support to protect and open places to play by understanding the needs of our community and players. You will develop and grow our lettings model and develop new and innovative methods of protecting and opening places to play.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and implement a plan to protect and open places to play



• Maintain an up to date understanding of places related needs and ensure insight drives our work to protect and open places to play



• Develop resources, support, guidance and programmes to support the badminton community to protect and open places to play, ensuring we have accurate and up to date data to inform policy decisions



• Develop innovative solutions to enable the opening up of more places to play. This includes expansion of the Badminton England facility lettings model, exploring investment opportunities and consideration of alternative environments for play, e.g., outdoor, single court venues



• Establish and maintain relationships with key providers to identify opportunities to grow access to facilities, e.g., leisure operators, school lettings companies



• Support other teams in Badminton England to maximise use of facilities, e.g., Competition, Coaching and Performance teams



• Develop a campaign for appropriate data to enable Badminton England to lobby for protection and opening up of places to play and increased investment in facilities



• Oversee Badminton England's input to built facilities strategy development and planning applications


Who we are looking for?

This is an exciting opportunity for an individual with a passion for making a difference and ensuring that everyone involved in badminton delivers and receives a high-quality experience that is welcoming, safe, accessible and inclusive.


• Experience of developing solutions to protect and open up places to play


• Track record of delivering impact


• Knowledge/understanding of the sporting landscape, in particular around facilities


• Track record of building customer understanding and using that knowledge and understanding to inform product development


• Experience of a product or programme development, preferably within sport


• Strong customer service orientation


• Willingness to seek out new and innovative approaches to work


• Ambitious and driven to continually develop new skills and techniques in themselves and others


• Demonstrate an ability to plan, organise and prioritise workload


• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills and the ability to develop positive internal and external relationships at all levels


• Ability to lead and influence partners and stakeholders to deliver strategic goals and agreed targets


• Knowledge/understanding of the sporting landscape


• Track record of building customer understanding and using that knowledge and understanding to inform product development


• Identify key partners with whom long lasting and productive relationships are built and maintained


• Excellent change/project management skills



• Accepting responsibility and responding promptly to the need for effective decision making


• Commitment to sports equality and an ability to gain buy in to equality objectives


• Meticulous attention to detail


• Desire and passion to make a difference
  
  We're all about output so we have Hybrid working and flexible hours in place - it's a full-time role (35.58 hours per week), but we understand that people have lives outside of Badminton England - please talk to us about what you need. We can't promise anything, but we're open to a discussion about how we can support you.


The current hybrid working arrangements are at least 3 days a week in the office (with the core day being Thursday) at National Badminton Centre, Milton Keynes

Salary: £32,500 - £37,500 depending on experience