Full-time
No squash experience? No problem!
Even if you think you know squash, check out the links below:
- 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 executive team as Membership Engagement Officer.
If you’re all about being part of a dynamic, energetic team, and are passionate about developing sport, clubs & facilities, coaches, competitions, players and people, then stop scrolling, you’ve landed on the right opportunity.
Scottish Squash’s strategy has the squash clubs and facilities across Scotland at its core, and Scottish Squash recognise the importance of putting the players and members at the heart of all that we do. The Membership Engagement Officer will play an integral part of that role and offers a unique opportunity for the post holder to utilise and develop their skills and experience in sports development to benefit the national governing body’s work across all of its pathways.
The Membership Engagement Officer is a key member of the Scottish Squash staff team, looking to engage, grow and enhance the membership services available for all member clubs and facilities, and individual subscribers across squash in Scotland. The post holder will be responsible for delivering all member/subscriber communications and for supporting the membership (clubs & subscribers) to fully utilise the membership services. They will promote the work of the membership; recognising, rewarding and celebrating success across squash in Scotland.
Additionally, the Membership Engagement Officer has a key role to play, working alongside colleagues and partners, to enhance membership experience to increase growth and capacity across all levels of the sport. They will promote and encourage the membership to engage with the opportunities available on the workforce and player pathway. This provides a great opportunity for the post holder to utilise past experience and gain further knowledge across the various people development pathways of a national governing body for sport.
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: Membership Engagement Officer
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
Position type: Full time (1.0 FTE)
Hours: 37.5 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