Job Description

Performance Partnerships and Programme Management Lead
Organisation: UK Sport.
Salary: Grade 7 - 74,900 per annum plus generous benefits.
Location: Loughborough, London or Manchester based, with flexible hybrid working and some travel within the UK required.
Contract Type: Permanent
Closing Date: 6th January 2026
About the Role
As Partnerships & Programme Management Lead, you'll sit at the heart of British high-performance sport. Your mission? Strengthen the strategic partnership between UK Sport and the UK Sports Institute (UKSI), ensuring world-class support for athletes and sports.
You'll lead programme management across the system, oversee governance and decision-making forums, and make sure planning and assurance cycles deliver impact. From driving collaboration to managing risks and shaping future strategy, this role is about influence, insight, and operational excellence.
You'll also line manage the Performance Programme Manager, championing development and guiding the team to deliver results that matter.
Key Responsibilities

• Act as the strategic advisor for UKSI within UK Sport's Performance & People directorate.
• Lead planning and assurance cycles for system-wide performance support.
• Oversee governance structures and decision-making forums - ensuring transparency and best practice.
• Drive collaboration between UKSI, UK Sport, and system partners to improve athlete experience.
• Provide challenge and support to senior leaders on service delivery and quality assurance.
• Identify and resolve risks, issues, and performance gaps.
• Lead insights, evaluations, and reporting to shape future strategy.
• Manage the relationship with the performance board subgroup.
• Line manage the Performance Programme Manager and support professional development.

A full role overview is available in the .
UK Sport is the nation's trusted high-performance experts, powering our greatest athletes, teams, sports, and events to achieve positive success.
Through strategic leadership and investment of National Lottery and Government funds since 1997, UK Sport has transformed the high-performance sporting system, winning more Olympic and Paralympic medals than ever before and is recognised as one of the top nations in the world for event hosting capabilities.
At UK Sport we will utilise the following the tools to support you on your own personal journey to success:

• Ways of Working Framework - UK Sport's Ways of Working centres around a central employee engagement plan, where we work and when we work, encouraging mutual trust and respect to create a flexible approach to works with your lifestyle.
• Access to 'The Learning Arena' - Drive your own development through access to our World Class Digital Learning experience used by the UK's High-Performance Coaches, Athletes and Practitioners.
• Enhanced Induction Programme - Ensuring you touch every part of the business and an introduction with our CEO within your first three months.

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