Sporting Assistant
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Motorsport UK, Bicester, Oxfordshire
- Full time
- Permanent
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Posted 2 days ago, 5 Apr
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Motorsport UK, Bicester, Oxfordshire
- Full time
- Permanent
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Posted 5 days ago, 2 Apr
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Motorsport UK, Bicester, Oxfordshire
- Onsite working
- Full time
- Permanent
Posted 2 days ago, 5 Apr
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Full Job Description
Join Our Team as a Sporting Assistant at Motorsport UK!
The Sporting department at Motorsport UK plays a key role in facilitating a safe, fair, and fun experience for the motorsport community. This involves ensuring the governance and regulations of the sport are relevant and suitable, as well as reviewing the current landscape of participation, with a view to encouraging greater and sustained enjoyment.
The Sporting Assistant (Rally & Cross Country) will play a key role in supporting the day-to-day functioning of the Sporting department, placing a particular emphasis on supporting the continued success of rallying in the UK. The primary objectives associated with this role will be:
- Providing administrative, logistical, and organisational support to all areas of the Sporting department, with a particular emphasis on the Rally and Cross Country disciplines.
- Developing, standardising, and documenting administrative, logistical, and organisational processes utilised in support of the Rally and Cross-Country disciplines.
- Providing excellent customer service to licence holders, motorsport clubs, and the public as appropriate.
Additional Responsibilities:
- Liaising with members of the Motorsport UK community via various communication channels (inc. emails, telephone, letters) to ensure their needs and requirements are met.
- Reviewing feedback received from Stewards reports or other reporting channels, ensuring actions are allocated to appropriate internal resource and resolutions provided.
- Supporting clubs in reaching resolutions to event planning queries.
- Supporting the annual production of material relating to the National Competition Rules, working with sporting discipline leads to ensure their respective regulations are correctly adopted.
- Assisting with the preparation of meeting paperwork for the Specialist Committees and associated Sub / Working groups.
- Assisting with the ongoing delivery of the Stage Rally Safety Requirements (RallyFuture).
- Providing support to other members of the Sporting team to assist in the completion of special projects.
- At times, attending weekend events with or on behalf of the Head of Rallying and Head of Cross Country & Clubsport.
- Any other tasks within the post-holder's capabilities as instructed by the Sport & Safety Director or Head of Rallying.
- Assist in the administration of Clubsport Championships (Autotest & Trials).
Prior customer service experience, dealing with complex queries, and communicating with a wide variety of stakeholders.
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, including telephone manner.
- Demonstrable accuracy and attention to detail.
- Disciplined time management and organisational skills, with an ability to evidence logical prioritisation of work.
- A flexible, collaborative approach to problem solving.
- Ability to implement new ways of working to improve both efficiency and effectiveness.
- Foundational software skills / experience, including Microsoft Suite, Adobe, Collaborative platforms (SharePoint, Google, similar).
- The ability to travel to and from the Motorsport UK offices in Bicester, Oxfordshire.
- Eligible to work in the UK.
Desirable
- Prior experience (either working or competing) and knowledge of the Rally discipline, as well as a passion for motorsport in general.
- Familiarity with the governance structure of International Motorsport (FIA Sporting Codes).
- Familiarity with the governance of UK Motorsport and the Motorsport UK National Competition Rules (NCR)
The Sporting department at Motorsport UK plays a key role in facilitating a safe, fair, and fun experience for the motorsport community. This involves ensuring the governance and regulations of the sport are relevant and suitable, as well as reviewing the current landscape of participation, with a view to encouraging greater and sustained enjoyment.
The Sporting Assistant (Rally & Cross Country) will play a key role in supporting the day-to-day functioning of the Sporting department, placing a particular emphasis on supporting the continued success of rallying in the UK. The primary objectives associated with this role will be:
- Providing administrative, logistical, and organisational support to all areas of the Sporting department, with a particular emphasis on the Rally and Cross Country disciplines.
- Developing, standardising, and documenting administrative, logistical, and organisational processes utilised in support of the Rally and Cross-Country disciplines.
- Providing excellent customer service to licence holders, motorsport clubs, and the public as appropriate.
Additional Responsibilities:
- Liaising with members of the Motorsport UK community via various communication channels (inc. emails, telephone, letters) to ensure their needs and requirements are met.
- Reviewing feedback received from Stewards reports or other reporting channels, ensuring actions are allocated to appropriate internal resource and resolutions provided.
- Supporting clubs in reaching resolutions to event planning queries.
- Supporting the annual production of material relating to the National Competition Rules, working with sporting discipline leads to ensure their respective regulations are correctly adopted.
- Assisting with the preparation of meeting paperwork for the Specialist Committees and associated Sub / Working groups.
- Assisting with the ongoing delivery of the Stage Rally Safety Requirements (RallyFuture).
- Providing support to other members of the Sporting team to assist in the completion of special projects.
- At times, attending weekend events with or on behalf of the Head of Rallying and Head of Cross Country & Clubsport.
- Any other tasks within the post-holder's capabilities as instructed by the Sport & Safety Director or Head of Rallying.
- Assist in the administration of Clubsport Championships (Autotest & Trials).
Prior customer service experience, dealing with complex queries, and communicating with a wide variety of stakeholders.
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, including telephone manner.
- Demonstrable accuracy and attention to detail.
- Disciplined time management and organisational skills, with an ability to evidence logical prioritisation of work.
- A flexible, collaborative approach to problem solving.
- Ability to implement new ways of working to improve both efficiency and effectiveness.
- Foundational software skills / experience, including Microsoft Suite, Adobe, Collaborative platforms (SharePoint, Google, similar).
- The ability to travel to and from the Motorsport UK offices in Bicester, Oxfordshire.
- Eligible to work in the UK.
Desirable
- Prior experience (either working or competing) and knowledge of the Rally discipline, as well as a passion for motorsport in general.
- Familiarity with the governance structure of International Motorsport (FIA Sporting Codes).
- Familiarity with the governance of UK Motorsport and the Motorsport UK National Competition Rules (NCR)
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