Part-Time
Creating and developing more opportunities for young people and women and girls to experience squash and progress within the sport is a key priority for Scottish Squash. The Club Development Officer plays an important role to continue to develop opportunities within these priority areas.
Whether you have little or no squash experience or bring a vast amount of knowledge of the game, we’d love to hear from you, if developing more opportunities for women and girls to participate in sport is your ambition. If you have little or no squash experience watch:
- Squash: El Sherbini v El Welily - World Series Finals - Final Highlights (youtube.com)
- Girls Do Squash from Scottish Women in Sport (youtube.com)
- Reporting Scotland - H//T Squash (youtube.com)
With the sports’ inclusion in the 2028 Los Angeles Olympic Games for the first time, it’s an exciting time to get involved with squash. Scottish Squash are continuing work to deliver its 2023-2027 strategic plan, ‘Together for Squash in Scotland’, where the main development aims are to bring the ‘world’s healthiest sport’, and all of its physical, mental and social benefits to as many people as possible. We’re on a journey to show that squash is a diverse sport that can be enjoyed by everyone and anyone.
Scottish Squash are the national governing body for squash in Scotland and are looking for the right individual to join the development team as Club Development Officer (Women & Girls).
If you’re all about being part of a dynamic, energetic team, and are passionate about developing sport, people, clubs, facilities and communities, then stop scrolling, you’ve landed on the right opportunity.
The Club Development Officer (Women & Girls) will support the development of people, places and programmes across Scotland, inspiring people from all backgrounds and working to ensure squash is a more equal and inclusive sport.
Working across Scotland, partnership working will be key in order to work together with national and community partners, local authorities, clubs, indoor centres, schools, colleges and universities.
Scottish Squash is committed to creating an inclusive and diverse working environment and is proud to be an equal opportunities employer. We welcome and encourage applications from anyone regardless of age, ability or disability, ethnicity or nationality, gender or gender identity, pregnancy or maternity, religion, sex or sexual orientation. We are seeking to diversify our workforce and particularly welcome applications from women as well as people with an ethnically diverse background as we are currently under-represented by these identities.
Job Title: Club Development Officer (Women & Girls)
Reports to: Club Development Manager
Contract type: Permanent
Location: Edinburgh
Oriam, Heriot Watt University
Edinburgh, EH14 4AS
This post is appropriate for a home working request to be made. Any home working arrangements would be agreed by the post holder’s line manager. The administrative base, for the purposes of expenses and travel claims, is the Scottish Squash HQ (currently located at the address below) but this can be negotiated with the post holder’s line manager.
Salary: SSL Grade 4: £28,117 per year (pro-rata: £16,870)
Position type: Part Time (0.6 FTE)
Hours: 22.5 hours per week (flexible working)
Closes: 23:59 Sunday 18th August 2024 (all applications will be acknowledged)
We suspect this role will have a high level of interest and so if you are interested in this post we advise you apply early, as we reserve the right to close the advert prior to the advertised closing date.
We’ll send you an email to let you know your application has arrived safely. If you haven’t received an email from us, check you junk or spam mailbox. If there’s still no email, it means we haven’t received your application and you should send it again. Completed applications should be sent to governance@scottishsquash.org