Advisory Board Members - Football Leadership Institute

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Advisory Board Members - Football Leadership Institute

The Football Leadership Institute will educate students in the academic and entrepreneurial aspects of sport by offering a range of courses for those seeking to draw on the expertise and skills of leaders in the field. The first two programmes to be launched will be a pre-university course and an Executive Education course which will take place during July and August 2022. A range of further academic and experiential programmes will be developed in the future.

To ensure the success of the programmes offered, Football Leadership Institute are seeking to appoint a board of advisers who will represent and lead the Institute through its debut on the world stage and inaugural year’s programmes.

The ideal candidates will:

·       Be adept at publicly representing a high-profile brand in a variety of scenarios;

·       Demonstrate a passion and entrepreneurial enthusiasm for the institute;

·       Have experience of building programmes (whether academic, experimental or otherwise), and familiarity with sports management education (ideally football);

·       Have a strong network of contacts within the sports and business community, ideally well-connected in the football world, to attract prominent participants, guest lecturers, and advocates of the program;

·       Be experienced in ensuring EDI is embedded in an organization and business ethos;

·       Work within a context which enables them to combine responsibilities with this role;

·       Combine relevant educational experience with an entrepreneurial approach and an enthusiasm for being part of a commercial venture;

·       Be flexible and adaptable to working within a start-up.