Player Recruitment Analyst

Job description

We’re looking to appoint a new Recruitment Player Analyst to join us at Barnsley Football Club. You will have a deep love of football with vast knowledge and enthusiasm for the game. In your role you will use video and data analysis to identify and monitor potential players of interest for the Club’s First Team.

You will be an independent decision maker, able to think critically and discuss tactical and technical details in depth and help to identify potential new players for the Club.

Duties will include:

• Production of detailed written reports on recommended players using Wyscout and Hudl footage, referencing appropriate data points.

• Analysis and interpretation of relevant metrics, including the Club’s in-house data system, to help identify and profile players.

• Updating the Department’s database to track and monitor players

• Attendance at matches to build knowledge and support the overall recruitment process.

Person specification

Essential:

• You will have a real love of football, and great enthusiasm for the game.

• Willingness and desire to improve your footballing knowledge both tactically and analytically.

• An independent decision maker, able to think rationally and critically.

Desirable:

• Outstanding football knowledge, with the ability to analyse and discuss tactical and technical details.

• Excellent player knowledge. Familiar with incumbent players and clubs through the UK’s footballing pyramid and abroad.

• Excellent written communication skills. Able to produce thorough, high-quality pieces of concise written work.

• Comfortable in analysing large datasets to improve our knowledge and understanding of players.

• An approachable team player who’s able to share and receive ideas and work seamlessly with others.

About the club

Safeguarding:

Barnsley Football Club ensure that the best possible staff are recruited based on their merits, abilities and suitability for the position. We ensure that the Club meets its commitment to safeguarding by promoting the welfare of children and young people by carrying out all necessary pre-employment checks.

The Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) helps employers make safer recruitment decisions and prevent unsuitable people from working with vulnerable groups. The DBS decides whether it is suitable for a person to be placed on or removed from a barred list.

Equal Opportunities:

Barnsley Football Club ensure that all job applicants are considered equally and consistently. We ensure that no job applicant is treated unfairly on any grounds including race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or religious belief, sex, or sexual orientation, marital or civil partner status, disability or age.

Right to work in the UK:

Barnsley Football Club ensures that applicants are entitled to work in the UK without approvals and have the appropriate documentation to validate this.

How to apply

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