First Team Head

Overview

First Team Head of Performance and Sports Science – Wigan Athletic

Location:

Wigan, Greater Manchester, England, United Kingdom

• Lead, oversee and coordinate the Club’s first team performance functions, ensuring that leading performance is achieved, maintained and exceeded through effective delivery of a continuous performance strategy.
• Design, plan and implement a performance, health and wellness strategy.
• Identify and define areas of improvement in existing operations.
• Where appropriate, advise on and implement new and innovative strategies linked to team performance aligned with the Club’s goals, targets and KPIs.
• Maintain an effective, collaborative and continuous relationship within the Football management team to ensure best practice methods and continuity.
• Provide regular and timely updates to the Coaching staff on the status of the players’ health and wellness.
• Coordinate the multi-disciplinary performance, health & wellness and players.
• Applied Research:
  Ensure the performance trajectory of the players is positively impacted by contemporary research and innovation initiatives.
• Understand and manage risk/compliance requirements; ensuring that the department abides by regulations and activities in scope and is compliant at all times (e.g. Premier League, FA and UEFA regulations).
• To manage staff professional development and performance up-skilling programs. Drive operational efficiency and effectiveness by identifying opportunities for improvement, establishing measurement and KPI’s where relevant.
• Drive operational efficiency and effectiveness by identifying opportunities for improvement, establishing measurement and KPI’s where relevant.

• University degree in Sports Science, Physiotherapy, Sport Medicine, Sports Management or alternative sports science/business-related discipline or any other degree combined with high-level sport management experience.
• Understanding of strategic high-performance sport system planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation.
• Proven experience in high-performance sport is required, including demonstrable success at a senior level and relevant high-performance experience.
• Strong leadership and team-building skills combined with proven sport management.
• Open, transparent, respectful, ethical and fair approach and behaviour.
• Ability to perform under pressure and respond calmly to competing demands.
• Highly motivated and committed to quality.
• Act with a high degree of integrity and confidentiality, whilst representing the values of the Group.

Wigan Athletic is committed to the principle of equal opportunity in employment, and its employment policies for recruitment are designed to ensure that no job applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation.

Wigan Athletic is committed to safeguarding children, young people, and adults at risk during events and activities. The Club recognises its responsibility to safeguard the welfare of these vulnerable groups by a commitment to procedures to protect them. The Club expects all staff and volunteers to respect them.