Organisation UK Sport Salary £42,000 Location Loughborough, London or Manchester based, with regular remote working. Contract type Permanent (Full time) Closing date 18 November 2025 Interview date 26 November 2025 Job Description Do you believe that Olympic and Paralympic sport has the power to inspire the nation? To connect and unite communities?
To raise aspiration and to challenge us all to dream big?
If so, you might just be what we’re looking for.
We are UK Sport and we’re the UK’s trusted high-performance experts, powering our greatest athletes, teams, sports and events to achieve positive success. We are on a mission to create the greatest decade of sporting moments; reaching, inspiring and uniting the nation.
As such, we’re searching for a driven Communications Officer with a background in communications, public relations and media engagement who can play an integral role in our wider external affairs team and drive forward our strategic communications work.
About You
You’ll be:
-Exceptional at identifying and delivering creative, eye catching and impactful communications moments.
-A seasoned professional in communications, you’ll have direct experience of planning, coordinating and delivering complex, impactful communications announcements which involve a range of partners and audiences and across a range of channels.
-An exceptional writer with the ability to draft high quality copy for a variety of channels and audiences such as press releases, speeches and blog posts.
-A team player first and foremost and a superb relationship builder.
You’ll be joining us at an incredibly exciting time for British sport, as we deliver our communications activity around the Milan Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games, start the next stage of the journey towards the LA 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games and with a whole host of major sporting events secured for the UK in the near future, such as the Men’s Euros 2028.
You’ll be an integral part of our wider External Affairs team and can expect to play a crucial role shaping and delivering UK Sport’s External Affairs and communications work.
At UK Sport we place huge value on being a diverse and inclusive organisation and view this as one of our key strengths. We would therefore strongly encourage applications from people of every background.
A passion for our mission is essential; in-depth sporting knowledge is not.