Cambridge United are hiring a Head of Youth Development to oversee the strategic leadership, management, and delivery of the Club’s Youth Development Pathway…
This includes oversight of the Regional Development and Elite Centres, the Female Emerging Talent Centre, and the Male and Female College Programmes.
The post holder’s primary focus will be to ensure that all budgetary, recruitment, and participation targets are achieved, while delivering programmes that operate to the highest standards of professionalism, safeguarding, welfare, and player development.
Key Job Outcomes
- Oversee and manage all full-time staff within the department, providing support for communication, operations, and programme delivery.
- Handle daily department operations, including organising and leading meetings, delegating tasks, and ensuring efficiency and high standards.
- Identify future staffing needs and aspirations for the department as necessary.
- Champion the club’s mission, vision, and values, ensuring they are embedded in the youth development department.
- Conduct staff appraisals to clarify expectations and goals for each season, while supporting professional development.
- Working in collaboration with the retail department to ensure player kit packs are sold and delivered in line with budgets and customer expectations.
- To plan, manage and deliver all relevant tours in a safe and compliant manner, ensuring adherence to agreed budgetary targets and organisational standards.
- To be responsible for the design, development and delivery of a coaching syllabus, ensuring effective teaching and learning outcomes.
- To design, implement and maintain effective systems and processes to support operational delivery and continuous improvement.
- Collaborate with youth development to ensure safeguarding policies and standards are consistently upheld.
- Monitor and assess the collection of essential data for all youth development programs.
- To support the achievement of departmental financial objectives by overseeing the development, monitoring and evaluation of budgets, and by supporting programme managers in achieving their own agreed budget targets.
- Assist with payroll processing as required.
- Effectively manage time to ensure that all tasks are delivered in a timely manner.
- Attend relevant management and accounts meetings to review departmental performance.
- Lead the recruitment and management of staff for each program within the department.
- Support the organisation and management of youth development tours.
- Ensure regular assessments of player progression are conducted, recorded, and used to enhance the club’s youth development pathways.
- To help develop high performance habits and values within the staff and players thus contributing to the development of a high-performance culture.
- Deliver exceptional customer service while maintaining clear communication across all departments.
- Promote and market club activities and programs in collaboration with the Communications Manager and Business Operations team.
- Perform other duties as assigned by the CEO.
For more information and to view a full job description, please click hereto view the Recruitment Pack.
To apply for the role, please complete our Application Form and submit it with your CV and Cover Letter via our Application Portal. The closing date for applications is Sunday 10 May 2026.
Cambridge United FC is committed to promoting equality of opportunity for all staff and job applicants. We aim to create a supportive and inclusive working environment in which all individuals can make best use of their skills, free from discrimination or harassment, and in which all decisions are based on merit.
We do not discriminate against staff on the basis of age, race, nationality, ethnic origin, religious or political belief or affiliation, trade union membership, gender, gender reassignment, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership status, pregnancy and maternity, sexual orientation, disability, socio-economic background or any other inappropriate distinction or characteristic covered by the Equality Act 2010.
