ROLE DESCRIPTION

Job information:

Division / Unit: Technical / Technical Education & Development
Contract type: Permanent
Start date: 01.06.2024 or as soon as possible
Location: Nyon

Main goal:

The Performance Analysis Coordinator supports the Performance Analysis team to identify technical and tactical trends across all UEFA men's, women's and youth competitions, and make sure UEFA is at the forefront of technical and tactical information


Key responsibilities:

- Supporting and collaborating with UEFA's Performance Analysis team on developing technical and tactical frameworks with the aim of capturing actionable technical and tactical insights (individual and team);
- Supporting the collection and visualisation of metrics that inform best practice and trend analysis across all UEFA's competitions;
- Contributing to key internal and external research projects that underpin future technical and tactical benchmarks and winning strategies in UEFA tournaments;
- Maintaining close and highly effective working relationships with internal and external partners by capturing, visualising and contextualising data into tactical insights;
- Providing data, video and learning reports and resources that can provide all UEFA territory partners with long-term strategic planning and coaching processes;
- Executing additional tasks as required in order to meet the UEFA Performance Analysis unit's changing priorities;
- Supporting the Elite Youth Football unit with ad hoc tasks.

Profile:

Experience required:
- Experience in designing dashboards using analytics software, e.g. Hudl SportsCODE, Tableau, Power BI and Keynote
- Experience working with various analysis software, including video telestration software
- Experience working in a football environment would be an asset

Education:
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in sports science or sports performance analysis and an understanding of how to underpin performance analysis with evidence-based literature

Languages:
- English / Proficient
- Other languages would be an asset

Additional requirements:
- Excellent tactical knowledge and understanding of the correlation between individual and collective data with the ability to extract data with subjective context
- UEFA coaching licence would be an asset
- Ability to extract and manipulate a wide range of different event data sets, e.g. OPTA F24, Statsbomb, Wyscout
- Ability to extract and manipulate tracking data, e.g. Hawkeye, Trackab