Academy Football Analyst (Casual)

London, England, United Kingdom

12/14/2024

The Role

We are looking for an Academy Football Analyst on a casual basis to provide insightful performance analysis within our Academy, across the professional development phase.

In this exciting role, you'll be entrusted to follow all of our Club and Academy’s relevant analytics processes and workflows, ensuring optimal standards of quality are achieved.

Who We Are

We are one of the most famous clubs in world football, with a rich heritage and history of success – read more about our history, here.

Beyond that, we are passionate about our local community and, behind the scenes, we have a wide variety of opportunities and career paths for all. We have a very defined purpose: to act for a winning team, culture and community. We achieve this by ensuring we are courageous in the pursuit of progress, we champion our community and each other, and that we do the right thing (even when no one is looking).

Your day-to-day

• Provide insightful training analysis - you will eagerly oversee the management of the capturing of training footage and data - providing feedback and coaching material for both players and coaches, in order to aid performance and/or the pre-match opposition analysis process
• Champion effective individual analysis - you'll proudly lead in the delivery of a detailed, regular individual player review programme, handling the preparation of material (video & data), as well as the delivery of such work to both coaches and players
• Oversee critical pre-match processes - you will support in the preparation of all pre-match opposition analysis content, accounting for performance trends, and you'll provide materials to highlight a more specific/individual level to our pre-match opposition analysis process
• Lead individual post-match workflows - you'll play a key role in the post-match process, looking after player databases and supporting coaches with the delivery of feedback and you will liaise with our data team around all individual post-match content
• Support live match-day analysis - you'll be a key part of our drive for a much more thorough and extensive match day process for live capture and analysis, with the ultimate goal of providing feedback in real-time
• Aid the delivery of the Academy CPD programme - you'll passionately contribute to the preparation and delivery of our Academy's coaching CPD programme and you'll oversee the investigation of any other relevant topic with the goal of furthering our understanding of performance
• Attend a range of fixtures - you will be required to attend all U18 and U17 fixtures on a domestic and international basis
  
  

What We Are Looking For

• Experience in professional football - you come equipped with previous experience of working within football in order to understand the unique nature of football culture
• Proven background in sports analysis - you possess a solid understanding of varying working methodologies and best practice within elite sports analysis
• Credible expertise - you hold an FA Level 2 Coaching License or above
• Track record of working at academy level - you're proud of your history of utilising your specialist skillset to help young players and coaches grow and develop
• Best-in-class expertise on our game - you have an expert level technical and tactical understanding of football and are well versed in a diverse range of strategies, systems, philosophies and game models
• Data driven mindset - you're able to accurately analyse multiple and often complex data streams in order to understand performance and you excel when you're delivering and communicating performance insights to key stakeholders in the organisation
• Excellent communication skills - you can confidently facilitate the effective delivery of performance insights, build connections and support a strong team cohesion
• Forward-thinking approach - you're motivated to continuously challenge, learn and move forward and you're able to to emerging technologies and their application in automating working processes
  
  

Arsenal for Everyone

Arsenal for Everyone is our commitment to promoting and embracing equality, diversity and inclusion, so that everyone connected to the club feels like they belong to the same Arsenal family. We believe that diversity of background, skills and experience drives our success on and off the pitch. 

Disability Confident Leader

We are a Disability Confident Leader. We actively welcome and encourage applications from people with disabilities and long-term health conditions. If you need disability-related adjustments to the recruitment process, please indicate this in your application.

If you are likely to meet the definition of being a ‘disabled person’ according to the Equality Act 2010, you may be eligible to apply for an interview via the Disability Confident Scheme - please indicate this in your application form below. The information you share with us about your health or disability will not be used in recruitment decisions.

Application Closing Date - Thursday 26th December 2024

Please note: we reserve the right to close the position early if application volumes are particularly high. We encourage you to get your application in sooner rather than later.

Good luck!