Organisation Worcestershire Cricket Foundation Salary £35,000-£40,000 Location Worcestershire Contract type Permanent (Full time) Closing date 24 November 2025 Interview date 1 December 2025 Job Description Summary of Job Purpose:
The Head of Participation & Growth will lead on delivering the Worcestershire Cricket Foundation Strategy for the P&G side. Their role will also be to manage the Participation & Growth Project leads and operations within Worcestershire Cricket Foundation.
Role Description & Person Specification
Leadership & People
•To manage all Participation & Growth programmes within Worcestershire Cricket Foundation and ensure delivery against strategy.
•Manage the operations within Worcestershire Cricket Foundation.
•Deputise for the Executive Director, including attending relevant meetings and leading staff engagement.
•To line manage the Clubs Manager, Club Development Officer, Competitions Manager and Women’s and Girls Officer, with oversight of the Women’s and Girls coach.
•Monthly line report meetings to check progress against KPI Targets which align with the foundations Strategy.
•Internal visits across the projects WCF deliver to maintain WCF standards and provide feedback to staff.
•Motivate and support staff to identify and access learning opportunities for career and personal development.
Relationships & Communication
•Create and maintain close relationships with ECB, recreational cricket clubs and other new partners where appropriate to achieve shared aims and objectives.
•Create partnerships with local & national stakeholders to support the delivery of our P&G programmes.
•Maintain an ongoing collaborative relationship with Worcestershire County Cricket Club.
•To organise monthly management meetings and prepare Board reports following these.
•Attend board meetings and sub-committee meetings where appropriate.
Strategy
•Alongside Executive Director and Head of Community Programmes develop, publish and implement the Worcestershire Cricket Foundation Strategic plan (2025-2028).
•Lead on strategy development and implementation for all Participation & Growth projects.
Finance & Operations
•Deliver against budgeted sales targets in the Schools Programme, education and coaching offer programmes.
•Prepare and monitor Participation and Growth element of the overall Foundation budget.
•Produce monthly timesheets and expenses for all P & G team for the finance officer to complete payroll.
•Identify potential partnerships, sponsorships, and further income generation opportunities.
Safeguarding & other duties
•To promote Health and Safety awareness in all aspects of provision and to take all necessary action to ensure that health and safety responsibilities are discharged in respect of statutory regulations and departmental safety policies in all matters within the jurisdiction of the post.
•Oversee safeguarding and compliance for cricket in the county in partnership with the safeguarding officer.
•To carry out other such duties as from time to time incidentally arise, develop or be assigned, which can include coaching work.
PERSON SPECIFICATION
Knowledge:
•Understanding of current programmes undertaken by Worcestershire Cricket Foundation.
•An understanding of the cricket landscape and support networks – ECB and key partners.
•Experience of Facility improvement within recreational sport.
•Experience of fundraising and identifying opportunities for partnerships.
Experience:
Essential
•Experience of responsibility for finance administration and setting, managing and reporting on budgets.
•Experience of designing programmes, driving participation & engagement in them.
•Experience of creating and maintain relationships with key stakeholders, professionals and volunteers.
•Strong Negotiation skills.
•Experience of project development and management.
•Successful experience of managing a high performing team.
•Experience of coaching team members to assist them to develop their people management skills.
•Managing projects, events and schedules successfully.
Desirable
•Previous experience in a senior role working in a Sport Development environment would be advantageous but not essential.
•Leading facilities investment strategies.
•Having worked in a similar role within a cricket organisation e.g., County Board or NGB.
•Adept at building rapport and trust to guide stakeholders toward mutually beneficial decisions.
•Experience of Safeguarding.
Personal Attributes
•A positive attitude with initiative, focus and drive.
•Leadership and management skills.
•Excellent communication and inter-personal skills; written, verbal and listening.
•Strong decision-making skills.
•A customer-orientated approach to all facets of the work and Worcestershire Cricket Foundations operations.
•Ability to work effectively under pressure with minimal supervision.
•Ability to inspire, influence, motivate and manage others.
•A commitment to equal opportunities and working towards equality, diversity, and inclusion standards.
•Ability to work within a team and to contribute to the overall success of the team as a whole.
•Ability to evaluate, review, revise and implement new ideas and methods of working.
•Commitment to work to the Companies standards and within formalised rules, regulations, policies, and procedures.
•Excellent IT skills including the use of Microsoft Office.
Qualifications:
The Job Holder will ideally have or work towards:
•Eligibility to work in the UK.
•A full clean current driving licence, and access to own transport.
•An up to date ECB DBS check.
Hours:
35 hours per week based on 9.00am to 5.00pm weekdays with occasional Evenings and Weekends. Remote working is available however the candidate will be expected to work from the office a minimum of 3 days per week.
Due to the nature of the work included in the role, the post holder will carry out his/her duties at such times/days that are most effective to perform the tasks required. This may involve some out of hours work – evenings and weekends – as necessary. The foundation is willing to have conversations with any candidate interested in applying around the hours of work.
Holidays:
25 days per annum plus statutory Bank Holidays, 2 volunteer days and company shutdown over Christmas period.
Safeguarding:
Worcestershire Cricket Foundation is committed to safeguarding and protecting the children and young people that we work with. As such, all posts are subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks. We ensure that we have a range of policies and procedures in place which promote safeguarding and safer working practice across our services.
Equality of Opportunity:
Worcestershire Cricket Foundation will ensure that all existing and potential employees receive equal consideration and is committed to the elimination of unlawful or unfair discrimination on the grounds of age, gender, gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, disability, race, colour, ethnic or national origin, religion/belief or sexual orientation. All applicants will have equality of opportunity during our selection processes.