Loughborough Sport Placements

Loughborough Sport is committed to the development of aspiring coaches and practitioners through elite sport in the UK. Supporting around 500 funded athletes, scholars, and first team athletes across a range of sports and athletic disciplines, we provide a unique environment to develop a range of skills within an interdisciplinary sports program.

The successful applicant will gain practical applied experience in an elite sporting environment under the guidance of practitioners and coaches. During the placement, there is an opportunity to build a portfolio of practical expertise, enhancing your employability within the Performance Analysis field.

What would I be doing?

• You will film, code, and play an integral part in the feedback process to coaches and other staff.
• Present data, learn practical analysis techniques and gain experience with the latest industry technology and software
• Utilising Loughborough’s unique relationship with HUDL to help develop your skills.

 What will I get out of this opportunity?

• Gain practical experience delivering insights around player development
• Exposure to working with coaches and athletes in an elite sporting environment
• Exposure to a range of sports, disciplines, and abilities
• Mentoring from practitioners and supervisors
• Support through qualifications and accreditations
• Portfolio of CPD and practical expertise
• Enhance your employability
• Work closely with other practitioners within an interdisciplinary team
• Development of soft skills
• Develop skills such as programming and performance planning, delivery of training sessions and data analysis

Required

• To undertake this role you must be a current student at Loughborough University.
• Full commitment – otherwise you won’t get much out of the placement and the support for our sports will be affected
• Due to the nature of the role, some of the experience will take place during evenings and weekends to align with sport training schedules.
• The ability to communicate well, share knowledge simply and effectively and strong attention to detail.
• Experience in delivering or assisting in the delivery of lectures, workshops and consultations.
• Innovative thinking and willingness to try things
• Professional attitude and approach, respect for others

Additional Details

• £6,000 stipend paid over 12 months
• Variety of start dates from 1^st July- 1^st September
• 37 hours per week for at least 45 weeks

How to apply

Please send a CV & Video Application to One Drive via the file request link below. It’s up to you how you choose to produce the video, the only stipulations are that it is no longer than 5 minutes and you answer all questions (with relevant detail) set out below:

Tell us about yourself:

• Name
• Your experiences in a sporting environment
• Any experience in analysis (volunteering workshops guest sessions master classes or other experience)
• Personal sporting interests and sport you would like to be involved in at Loughborough
• Your career aspirations
• What do you think you are like as a person, how would others describe you?

Tell us why you would like to join us:

• Why this placement? Why you? Why Loughborough?

Deadline for applications is Tuesday 21^st May 2024 at 5pm.