Director of Racing

Director of Racing

Hamble

£Attractive salary & benefits package - Hamble, Hampshire

Job Reference: 3972

The Royal Yachting Association is the national governing body for all forms of boating including dinghy and yacht racing, motor and sail cruising, RIBs and sports boats, powerboat racing, windsurfing, inland cruising, narrowboats, and personal watercraft.

 

The RYA has a mission to be the world's most successful nation in boating competition to inspire future champions, and engages with all forms of the sport in order to attract and retain racing sailors. The RYA Racing Department is recognised by sailing National Authorities around the world for its excellence in all the activities in which it operates. The Director of Racing has overall responsibility for the development of the whole of sail racing within the UK, including determining and developing the strategy of the World Class Programme across the Olympic and Youth programmes; the quantity and quality of its volunteer Race Officials and coach education which supports racing from club to country and the technical side of the sport which ensures boats all compete on equal terms and helps to keep racing sailors safe.

 

This role has the opportunity to influence the development of UK sail racing across all disciplines, at all levels.  The Director of Racing will need to harness a vision and pull together a cohesive strategy into execution.  The successful candidate will therefore be someone who has proven success in this, who has the drive and ability to lead their team to strive for the very best and has demonstrable experience in leading sporting performance success at the highest level.   With a proven track record of working with a variety of partners and stakeholder groups and possessing excellent interpersonal and communication skills, the successful candidate will have demonstrated that they are able to lead, motivate and support a team managing significant budgets.

 

Based in Hamble, near Southampton, the role involves travel and attendance at events outside normal office hours for which time off in lieu is allowed.

For a more detailed job description please visit www.rya.org.uk/go/jobs.

 

Salary
Attractive salary and benefits package including pension scheme, free life insurance, 25 days annual leave plus public holidays and discretionary Christmas holiday.

To Apply
Applications, or requests for an initial confidential conversation, should be sent to Dawn Brown: dawnbrown@positivedynamics.co.uk

Closing date for applications: 12 noon on Wednesday 8th March 2017.

Interviews to be held in Southampton on 24th March 2017 

 

The successful candidate will need to be available to attend the interviews for the selection of the Olympic Performance Manager on the 4th or 5th April 2017.

 

The RYA is committed to equality of opportunity.  We would encourage applications from women, candidates with disabilities and ethnic minority groups who are currently under-represented at this level of post.

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