Netball Development Officer - Dorset

This is an exciting opportunity for someone to grow and drive netball in the county, maintaining a shared, insight driven plan aligning to our Adventure Strategy and purpose. The Netball Development Officer will empower and support our clubs, leagues, partners, volunteers, and workforce to join with us in delivering outstanding participation opportunities for members and participants, whilst seeking income generation and funding opportunities. This role will support England Netball's Adventure Strategy and will contribute to how we grow participation in netball across all life stages making it a game for life, providing extraordinary experiences and building a thriving collective within the sport.

Key Responsibilities:

• Members, Clubs and Leagues: Empower and support local leagues and clubs to deliver outstanding relevant activity recognising the needs of the audience. Maintain engaging, accessible local communication channels that enable local landing of our ‘resonant voice’ campaigns alongside sharing local news (i.e. social media, website and media outlets). Understand the county demographics and find ways to attract new audiences with a focus on those from underserved communities.
• Participation and Programmes: Maintain expert knowledge and insight on the county; the landscape, population, facilities, workforce, netball provision and partners. Organise, promote, deliver and monitor England Netball programmes ensuring a sustainable financial model and a great participant experience supporting all stages of the participant journey.
• Partnerships: Champion and continually demonstrate our purpose driven culture and embedded behaviours, supporting partners to share these. Be the County Netball Association (CNA) Relationship Lead, working with them to collaborate on shared goals, a shared purpose and plan that aligns to England Netball’s Adventure Strategy.
• Operations: Be responsible for meeting and monitoring local Key Performance Indicators; updating trackers and systems to demonstrate progress as required. Generate programme income and manage small budgets following NDO financial guides to support sustainability. Recruit, manage and support in accordance with our casual coach guidance any coaches required to deliver the annual plan.

This role would suit people who are:

• Passionate about sport and are an ambassador for sports participation.
• Committed to making a difference – and want to play a part in opening up netball to new and underserved communities.
• People Orientated – with the ability to enthuse, inspire and empower individuals to return and or grow their involvement in the game.
• Understanding - able to acknowledge and support to overcome potential barriers to participation, whilst realising potential motives, aspirations and needs of women relating to netball participation.
• Experienced working with volunteers/voluntary groups – ability to build positive working relationships underpinned by Working as One, supporting volunteers to embed collaborative behaviours and ways of working.
• Knowledgeable about the geographical area (population and netball landscape) and England Netball participation products and programmes (desirable) and understand the best ways to reach our current and new audiences through local channels.
• Coaches and leaders – have experience of, be confident and engaging either coaching, leading or facilitating young people and adults. Be able to adapt your style to the needs of the participants.
• Aware of factors impacting participation linked to wellbeing and women/girls health ie NETBALLHer as well as health and safety and assessing risks in a sport environment.
• A strong communicator - who can tailor your written and verbal communication appropriately to the target audience.
• A natural organiser - are self-motivated, with the ability to work on your own initiative and lead and motivate others.
• Flexible and adaptable reacting positively to change, sharing of ideas and successes and being open to feedback to embed continuous improvement.
• A confident administrator - have the ability to organise and administrate programmes including budgeting, venue booking venues, inputting participant information and answering enquiries.
• Able to use Microsoft Word and Outlook. A working knowledge of Microsoft Teams, Power Point, Excel, social media including Facebook and Twitter would be beneficial.
• Able to work some unsocial hours including at times evenings and occasional weekends.
• Have a full current driving licence and access to a car for work purposes.

Contract: Part-time, 21 hours per week
Salary: £25,000 - £27,000 per annum (full-time equivalent) dependant on skills and experience
Location: This role covers the county area and is a work-from-home based role with regular travel across the county.
Closing Date: Sunday 11th January 2026 @ midnight
Interviews: in person on 21st January

For an informal conversation about the role, please contact the hiring manager Nat Robinson – Partnership & Delivery Manager – North East & Yorkshire on Nat.Robinson@englandnetball.co.uk If you have any questions about your application please contact HR@englandnetball.co.uk