Swim Ireland Vacancy – Women in Sport Officer

Responsibilities

Swim for a Mile (SFAM)

• Develop and deliver an indoor SFAM programme.
• Develop and deliver an outdoor pool SFAM programme.
• Develop and deliver a virtual SFAM challenge.

Women in Sport (WIS)

·         Deliver the WIS Coaching & Mentoring Programme.

·         Deliver the Swimmin Women programme.

·         Support the delivery of the Women in Sport Leadership programme.

·         Support the delivery of a Water Polo Referee programme

·         WIS Visibility (WIS funding dependent)

·         Women in The Water Week (WIS funding dependent)

Stakeholders

·         Establish and maintain links with Local Sports Partnerships, Facility Operators, Community Groups, Schools, Clubs and others as required.

Other Duties

·         Set and monitor standards for the delivery of the WIS programmes and events.

·         Produce evaluations of the SFAM events and the WIS programmes.

·         Monitor the budgets for SFAM events and the WIS programmes, ensuring that spend is within allocated budget.

·         Produce regular reports detailing progress against targets.

·         Prepare and present reports to funders.

·         Other duties as requested

Full-time / Part-Time

·         The employee will report to Swim Ireland Head of Participation.

• Educated to Degree level or at least 3 years full time employment in a relevant professional environment
• L2 Teaching Aquatics or Coaching Swimming or recognised equivalent
• Current and clean drivers’ licence

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• Some experience of working professionally within the sports or leisure/health industry
• Experience working in sports development
• Experience of working as part of a team
• Experience of setting a project and seeing it through successfully
• Knowledge and experience in working across a range of aquatic disciplines
• Experience in development, implementation and maintenance of a PR and marketing strategy supported in particular by Social Media initiatives

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• Knowledge of sporting structures
• Knowledge of the benefits of the aquatics for women
• Knowledge of the implementation of PR strategies and Social Media initiatives

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• Comprehensive verbal, written, presentation, oral and IT skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills including the ability to communicate effectively and liaise with a range of personnel (such as swimmers, professionals, teachers and facility manager)
• Self-motivated, enthusiastic and committed
• Organised and able to report effectively
• Ability to work on own initiative, under pressure and to tight deadlines
• Willingness to work unsocial hours
• A strong team player
• Comprehensive negotiating skills
• Good time management skills
• The ability to sell, persuade and influence others

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• Willingness to travel to and between a number of different work locations
• Ability to communicate effectively in English
• A CAN DO Attitude

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