Job Description

Details

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Reference number

441859

Salary

44,752 - 55,289
GBP

Job grade

Senior Executive Officer

Contract type

Permanent

Type of role

Digital

Working pattern

Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time

Number of jobs available

1

Contents

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Location About the job Benefits Things you need to know Apply and further information

Location

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Manchester, North West England, M2 3AW

About the job

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Job summary

The Independent Football Regulator

The Independent Football Regulator (IFR) has been established to protect and promote the sustainability of English football, for the benefit of fans and the local communities football clubs serve.


The IFR will help improve financial sustainability of clubs, ensure resilience across the leagues, and safeguard the heritage of English football. It will operate a licensing regime; set corporate governance standards and monitor, protect, and promote financial resilience. It will also enforce compliance with requirements on financial regulation, club ownership and directors, fan engagement, and heritage protection.


The IFR will also have powers to prohibit clubs from joining competitions that are not fair or meritocratic, or that threaten the heritage or sustainability of English football.

Job description

Responsibilities Include:

Governance &

Programme

Management

Support on reviewing, maintaining, and improving DDaT governance frameworks, ensuring alignment with organisational standards and Government Digital Service (GDS) expectations. Manage governance boards, including preparing agendas, commissioning papers, coordinating attendees, recording decisions, and ensuring actions are followed through. Produce high-quality monthly updates for programme boards and senior stakeholders, ensuring accurate reporting of delivery status, risks, issues, dependencies, and outcomes. Support the commissioning of work for DDaT teams, ensuring clear requirements, prioritisation processes, and appropriate governance approval routes. Support drafting clear, concise papers for senior boards to support decision-making and approvals.

Service & Product Support

Support EUC service desk performance by reviewing operational data, identifying trends, and helping drive service improvements. Work closely with product teams to support planning, delivery, and assurance across the product lifecycle. Maintain strong relationships with internal teams, suppliers, and stakeholders to ensure effective collaboration and alignment with programme objectives.

General

Contribute to continuous improvement of delivery processes and internal ways of working. Provide programme support as required, ensuring the effective coordination of project activities, milestones, documentation, and reporting.

Person specification

Essential Requirements

Experience supporting governance or assurance processes within a digital, technology, or programme delivery context. Strong organisational and coordination skills, including managing multiple updates, boards, and reporting cycles. Ability to prepare high-quality board papers, briefings, and reports for senior stakeholders. Experience supporting delivery teams (programme, project, or product teams). Ability to interpret data, risks, and issues, and communicate them clearly. Experience working across teams, building relationships, and influencing stakeholders. Ability to identify areas for improvement within governance, reporting, or service processes and support implementation of better ways of working.

Desirable Skills

Understanding of service management or EUC support environments. Understanding of Agile delivery methods. Relevant professional accreditation (e.g., ITIL Foundation, PRINCE2, APM PFQ, AgilePM). Experience in the Civil Service or Regulation Industry.

We are running an information session where prospective applicants can find out more about the role. This will be hosted by

Todd Darley

and will take place on:

Monday 22

nd

December at 12.30pm

The session will be an opportunity to hear more about the role, the team and wider directorate and the department. It will also be an opportunity for you to ask any questions.


Please register your interest by filling out this form and you will be sent an invitation. The invites will be sent the night before the session.

The sessions are not recorded.

Please note that the session will not focus on the IFR recruitment process - please direct any queries that you have on this topic (timelines, reasonable adjustments, onboarding etc) to

careers@footballregulator.org.uk

Benefits

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If you are an existing Civil Servant or a DCMS employee you will no longer have access to Civil Service benefits including the Civil Service pension.

The terms and conditions of employment include:

Pension 12%

An employee contribution of 5%, with an employer contribution of 7%.

Flexible Benefit 8%

Employees can choose to invest 8% of their base salary into their pension, or take as cash (post tax)

Reward

we will have a performance based reward programme.

31.5

days annual leave

Flexible

and hybrid working,

40%

in office attendance Occupational sick pay

9

months paid Maternity Leave + generous paternity and adoption leave. A bespoke L&D programme to help you achieve your personal CPD, including paid membership fees Cycle-to-work scheme and much more!

Things you need to know

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Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.

Selection process details

To apply for this vacancy, you will need to submit the following documents which will assessed against your experience


A

CV

setting out your career history, with key responsibilities and achievements. Please ensure you provide employment history that relates to the essential and desirable criteria, and that any gaps in employment history within the last 2 years are explained. The CV should not exceed more than 2 x A4 pages and you should insert your CV into the "Job History" section on Civil Service Jobs on the Civil Service Jobs application form. A

Statement of Suitability

(max

500

words) explaining how you consider your personal skills, qualities and experience provide evidence of your suitability for the role in reference to the essential requirements highlighted. You may also choose to reference the desirable skills listed however these will not be considered in the assessment of your application except in circumstances where there are a high number and calibre of candidates.
For the

shortlist

, we will select applicants demonstrating the best fit for the role by considering the evidence provided in your application.


In the event of a large number of applicants, an initial sift will be conducted on the

statement of suitability.

Those who are successful in the initial sift will then be scored on all elements of the application.







Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.
People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:


UK nationals nationals of the Republic of Ireland nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020 Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service
Further information on nationality requirements

Working for the Civil Service

Please note this Post is NOT regulated by the Civil Service Commission.
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

Diversity and Inclusion

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy .

Apply and further information

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This vacancy is part of the Great Place to Work for Veterans initiative.
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Contact point for applicants

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Job contact :

Name : Joe Alford Email : Careers@footballregulator.org.uk
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Recruitment team

* Email : Careers@footballregulator.org.uk