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About The Role

YOU’LL LOVE THIS JOB IF

• You are passionate about growing participation in cricket for women and girls.
• You thrive when working at pace, using your creativity and project management skills to deliver performance outcomes.
• You’re a team player with great stakeholder management, and who enjoys building relationships with colleagues and departments, internally and externally.
• You are motivated by the opportunity to leverage a global event to accelerate and amplify women’s and girls’ cricket, creating long term-change.

YOU’LL BE DOING

• Project Managing the Inspire Pillar of the ECB Event Strategy for the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup 2026.
• Engaging, aligning and supporting internal colleagues across the ECB in the creation and implementation of the Inspire Pillar; Playing, Leading and Volunteering.
• Playing - Collaborating with the Recreational Cricket Board network to develop and deliver a participation campaign to increase the number of women and girls playing cricket in clubs and schools.
• Leading – Working together with multiple internal departments and collegues to create and implement a leadership programme for female club leaders.
• Volunteering - Working directly with ECB Senior Manager-Volunteering to build a training and education programme for young club volunteers to be implemented ahead of the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup 2026.
• Connecting Inspire Pillar activation with the tournament host cities and venues to ensure effective collaboration to achieve maximum impact.

YOU’LL HAVE

• Experience of creating and developing programmes to increase participation and provide positive experiences for women and girls in sport.
• A strong understanding of the sports development delivery system and network. An understanding of how this applies in cricket is desirable but not essential.
• Ability to build strong relationships and collaborate effectively with diverse stakeholders, both internal and external, with an inclusive and adaptable approach.
• Strong project management, organisational and communication skills with good attention to detail and the ability to prioritise and work to deadlines
• Creative thinking, with a keen eye for detail and a passion for developing engaging interventions that will create long term change.
• Experience of coaching recreational women’s and girls’ sport. Experience in cricket is desirable but not essential.

Further Information

YOU’LL RECEIVE

• Competitive salary
• Holiday - 25 days a year
• Volunteering – 2 days a year
• Pension - Non-contributory pension
• Private medical insurance
• Employee health cash-back plan
• Long-term sickness insurance
• Life assurance - four times your annual basic salary
• Enhanced family leave and pay
• OpenBlend - an innovative coaching and performance management tool
• People Academy - a range of programmes and initiatives to help you develop and reach your potential
• Employee Assistance Programme - 24/7 confidential access to expert services including counselling, wellbeing, and independent legal and financial advice
• 30% Castore discount
• Cycle 2 Work Scheme
• Season ticket loan
• Preferential access to tickets to England and The Hundred games
• Opportunities to be a part of and be involved in our Employee Resource groups: Women in Cricket Employee Network, Race in Cricket Employee Network, Social Equality in Cricket Employee Network, Cricketability Employee Network (formerly called the Disability in Cricket Employee Network) and LGBTQ+ Community in Cricket Employee Network

Apply for role

Closing date: 9th June 2025