Director Sports

JOB PURPOSE

Director, Sports is overall incharge for creating sports excellence, sports culture and sports facilities across GSF Schools. The role holder is responsible for directing and overseeing co-curricular sports provision across all campuses in India , overseeing the main areas of Sports events, Sports Academy Leadership, extra-curricular sports provision, facilities and resources and budget management. The role holder will also work with the Principals and PE staff responsible for the extracurricular activity programme across all schools to ensure a collaborative approach to shared use of facilities and organisation of sports events.

III. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Leadership

• Creates a global vision for sports development, performance, and participation for GSF Schools in India .
• Develops goals, objectives and strategies for the development of Sports culture and activities across all schools under GSF
• Leads the smooth organisation of sports events both onsite and offsite for all schools.
• Provides guidance to the Academic function for all aspects related to sports and physical education such as curriculum planning, lesson planning, resources required, budgeting for events etc.
• Act as the face of Sports representing GSF at various forums

Financial

• Collaborates with the Finance function in developing relevant financial budgets for the function, and proactively tracks performance against the metrics to ensure fiscal control in the function
• Works closely with Finance and operations to maintain financial oversight and effective use of Budgets

Functional

• Creates long and short term plans for sports in GSF schools
• Identifies and ties up with leading Sports Academies all across the world for providing state of the art facilities for GSF school teams
• Coordinates the development of Gold Squads for GSF schools worldwide
• Designs and delivers annual Physical Education priorities and organizational strategies in line with the organizations academic plans
• Oversees and manages the sports programmes, practices and policies globally for the various curriculums and campuses both during and after school hours as well as on weekends
• Ensure clear and regular communication of sporting events and initiatives to key staff members and across the GSH community

Interaction

• Work closely with Principals, Heads of Schools, Sports Coordinators and teachers to plan sports activities, events and curriculum
• Works with the Projects teams worldwide & Geos to help develop sports facilities in GSF Schools
• Ensures active interschool (national & international) competitions for GSF sports teams worldwide including competitions among GSF Schools
• Works closely with the Principals to understand the curriculums planned for the year
• Provides support to the various campuses in preparation for the curriculum inspections
• Builds strong networks and maintains good working relationships with internal and external partners to keep abreast of the current Academic & Sports climate and macroeconomic trends

People Focus

• Leads the recruitment, selection, orientation, and training of sports coaches and PE Teachers in the function across all brands
• Collaborates proactively with Human Resource to continuously increase competency within the function to meet future organisations needs through the development and recruitment of talent
• Builds and manages high performing teams within the function by providing leadership, role clarity and training

IV. JOB REQUIREMENTS

Minimum Qualifications

Masters/ Bachelors degree in Physical Education/ Sports or equivalent from a recognised university

Min 15 years of Experience in Sports/ Physical Education

Experience

Should have headed Sports and Physical Education function for either a large international chain of schools or should have headed sports function for a prestigious international school.

Should have experience in dealing with schools that have participated in international sports competitions

Should have experience working with prestigious international sports academies and tie-ups with schools