Workforce Deployment Co-ordinator

Responsible for the deployment of casual staff within a designated region, ensuring alignment with the seasonal plan across various disciplines and delivery modes. This role focuses on optimising workforce effectiveness by promoting diversity and ensuring that teams represent the football community. The coordinator will manage workforce data, support development events, and build contingency plans to mitigate risks related to staff availability.

The Football Association have an exciting opportunity for a Workforce Deployment Co-ordinator

Responsible for the deployment of casual staff within a designated region, ensuring alignment with the seasonal plan across various disciplines and delivery modes. This role focuses on optimising workforce effectiveness by promoting diversity and ensuring that teams represent the football community. The coordinator will manage workforce data, support development events, and build contingency plans to mitigate risks related to staff availability.

What will you be doing?

• Deploy casual workforce within a region aligned to seasonal plan, across multiple disciplines and delivery modes
• Ensure casual staff are deployed effectively, considering relevant knowledge and skills, whilst focusing on diverse teams which represent the football community.
• Effectively build contingency plans to ensure mitigation of risk surrounding casual staff availability
• Support the attendance at development events through effective communication and promotion aligned to workforce needs
• Manage data tracking workforce deployment and development, connecting to learning evaluation and efficiencies of process
• Collaboratively connect with colleagues across the department to ensure we have a highly effective casual workforce capable of achieving our department purpose
• Executes additional tasks as required in order to meet FA Group's changing priorities.
• Comply with all company policies and procedures to ensure the highest standards of health, safety and well-being 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?

Essential for the role:

Knowledge:

• Learning event planning and delivery, including the planning and scheduling of workforce

Experience:

• Demonstrated experience in supporting learning delivery across multiple formats (in-person, virtual, hybrid) and diverse disciplines, adapting to different learning needs and logistical challenges
• Experience of working with a casual workforce
• Track record of effective communication utilising differing modes
• Demonstrated experience of collaborating across multiple stakeholders, internal and external

Skills:

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, particularly Excel, for data analysis, reporting, and logistical planning
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
• Strong organizational and project management skills, ensuring efficient coordination and execution of workforce deployment across the region

Beneficial to have:

Knowledge:

• Degree qualification in learning, education, sport, or a related field, providing a strong foundation in pedagogical principles and event management strategies
• Familiarity with adult learning theories and design principles, particularly as they relate to organising and delivering learning events
  

Experience:

• Experience in using learning management systems (LMS) or other digital tools to track program delivery and workforce deployment
• Experience with risk management in event planning

Skills:

• Ability to convey complex information clearly and effectively to a range of stakeholders

What's in it for you?

We are committed to ensuring everyone can flourish in their roles, to achieve this we have unique office spaces under the arch of the iconic Wembley National Stadium, which is the home of English Football. We are also delighted to offer a world-class, Elite Performance Centre, St. George's Park in Staffordshire which is an exceptional setting to develop and inspire high-performing England teams and leaders.

We pride ourselves in offering a competitive salary as well as great opportunities to develop and grow in your role. But that is not all; we also have a range of exciting benefits, some of which can be found below:

• 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 which offers greater flexibility.

For more information on what it is like to work at The FA, please visit our FA Careers page, https://www.thefa.com/about-football-association/careers

We are a diverse workplace, aspiring to represent football across the country. The Football Association actively promotes inclusion and diversity, encouraging you to be the best version of yourself at work.

We welcome applications from everyone and are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. If you have any particular requirements in respect of the recruitment or interview process, please mention this during your application.

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.