Women's Talent ID Administrator (Part Time - 0.4/2 days FTE) in Burton upon Trent

The FA's Women's Technical Division are looking for a part‑time Talent ID Administrator to provide effective administrative and coordination support to the Women's Recruitment Lead, ensuring the smooth delivery of recruitment and talent identification activity across the women's pathway. This role is a 0.4 FTE (14 hours across 2 days).

What will you be doing?

• Coordinate and deliver administrative activity across the women's scouting and talent ID programme, ensuring information, records, and processes are maintained accurately and efficiently.
• Support the scheduling, tracking, and coordination of Talent Reporter activity, including report submissions, availability, deployment information, and related communications.
• Assist with the collation and maintenance of player information, eligibility details, monitoring lists, reports, and other recruitment records, ensuring data is handled confidentially and in line with relevant processes.
• Support the onboarding, contracting, and payroll administration for Talent ID reporters and other casual workers, ensuring compliance with internal processes and deadlines.
• Act as a key administrative point of contact for casual Talent ID reporters and relevant stakeholders, providing timely guidance, information, and support.
• Identify opportunities to improve administrative processes, templates, trackers, and ways of working to support a more efficient and consistent recruitment function.
• Maintain accurate and up-to-date records relating to scouting activity, casual workforce administration, and other recruitment documentation, handling information with appropriate confidentiality.
• Execute additional tasks as required to meet the FA's changing priorities.
• Comply with all company policies and procedures to ensure the highest standards of health, safety, and well‑being can be maintained.
• Complete a DBS check as part of the FA's commitment to ensuring a safe environment for everyone in football.

What are we looking for?

Essential for the role:

• Experience of working in an administrative, coordination, or operational support role within a busy team environment.
• Excellent organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple tasks, deadlines, and competing priorities accurately and efficiently.
• Strong attention to detail, with confidence maintaining records, trackers, reports, and other administrative documentation.
• Confident written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to liaise professionally with internal colleagues and external stakeholders.
• Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications, particularly Outlook, Word, Excel, and Teams.
• Proactive and collaborative approach, with the ability to work independently and as part of a wider team.

Beneficial to have:

• Experience of working in sport, football, talent identification, recruitment, events, or a performance environment.
• Understanding of talent identification, scouting, or player recruitment processes.

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 on 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 well‑being.
• Free, nutritious lunches at Wembley Stadium and St. George's Park.
• Free private medical cover.
• A contributory pension scheme.
• An additional 'Thank You' day's leave, volunteering days, as well as 25 days of annual leave (based on a full‑time, permanent contract).
• A hybrid working model offering greater flexibility.

For more information on what it is like to work at The FA, please visit the FA Careers page.

Currently, we are working within a hybrid working model whereby the expectation is to work from your contractual location for part of the week, and as and when required by the team. The remaining days can be worked remotely. We will continue to monitor this model, and it may be adjusted in future if deemed necessary. The contractual location of this role can be found on the FA Careers page.

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.