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We currently have 11 open positions listed, including three major finance and governance roles and more in project management, development, coaching and hospitality.

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PROJECT MANAGER AT THE FAI

The Football Association of Ireland is recruiting a Project Manager to lead strategic, cross-functional projects supporting delivery of the FAI Strategy 2026–2029.

Reporting to the Head of Strategic Projects and PMO, the successful candidate will work with senior leadership, business owners, internal teams, and external partners to ensure projects are properly planned, governed, and delivered within agreed budgets and timelines.

Key Responsibilities

  • Lead projects from initiation and planning through to delivery, handover and closure.
  • Define objectives, scope, deliverables, success measures and resource requirements.
  • Develop and maintain project plans, budgets and delivery milestones.
  • Establish appropriate governance arrangements through the FAI’s project-management framework.
  • Monitor progress and manage risks, issues, dependencies and changes.
  • Coordinate cross-functional teams, consultants, suppliers and service providers.
  • Facilitate project meetings and record decisions and actions.
  • Prepare reports, business cases and recommendations for senior leadership, governance groups and the Board.
  • Support procurement and the operational handover of completed projects.
  • Help develop the processes, standards and tools used by the FAI’s Project Management Office.

Applicants must have at least five years’ experience managing complex projects with multiple stakeholders and competing priorities.

A professional project-management qualification such as PRINCE2, PMP or APM, or an equivalent qualification, is essential. Candidates should also have experience of project governance, budgeting, risk management, reporting and supplier management.

Experience delivering organisational change, business improvement, digital, infrastructure, or strategic projects would be advantageous. Knowledge of the Irish sporting landscape, public-sector funding or regulated organisations would also be beneficial.

This is a full-time, 12-to-18-month fixed-term contract, based at FAI headquarters in Abbottstown, Dublin. The position is hybrid and will commence as soon as possible.

Applications close at the end of the day on Friday, November 6th, 2026.

View the complete vacancy and apply directly through the FAI. Jobs at Football Association of Ireland

The FAI is an equal-opportunities employer.

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LEAGUE OF IRELAND REFEREE MANAGER AT THE FAI

The Football Association of Ireland is recruiting a League of Ireland Referee Manager to lead the operation, development and performance management of its Elite Referees Panel.

Reporting to the Head of Refereeing, the successful candidate will oversee an operation involving approximately 100 match officials and observers. During the League of Ireland season, this includes supporting around 16 fixtures and deploying approximately 80 officials and observers each week.

Key Responsibilities

  • Plan and resource refereeing appointments for League of Ireland, FAI Cup and designated international fixtures.
  • Maintain a fair and data-informed appointments process.
  • Lead annual panel selection, promotion and succession planning.
  • Develop a sustainable pathway for future elite match officials.
  • Ensure compliance with FAI regulations, safeguarding requirements and the UEFA Referee Convention.
  • Provide governance and reporting support to the relevant FAI refereeing committees.
  • Lead the education, coaching, fitness and development programme for elite officials.
  • Maintain appraisal, observation and individual-development systems.
  • Manage the Elite Referee Panel’s budget, procurement and supplier relationships.
  • Coordinate travel, accommodation, equipment, and international fixture arrangements.
  • Work with clubs, officials, the League of Ireland, UEFA, FIFA and internal FAI departments.

Applicants require experience in refereeing, referee education or sports administration. Experience planning complex, high-volume programmes and managing people, resources and operational budgets is also essential.

A relevant third-level qualification or equivalent professional experience in education, sport, football or a related discipline is required. Project management, leadership, sports governance, or referee-instructor qualifications would be advantageous.

Candidates must possess a full driving licence and be available for regular travel, evening and weekend work.

This is a permanent, full-time position based at FAI headquarters in Abbottstown, Dublin, with hybrid working arrangements.

Applications close at the end of the day on Friday, October 30th, 2026. Jobs at Football Association of Ireland

View the complete vacancy and apply directly through the FAI.

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HEAD OF REGION – CONNACHT AT THE FAI

The Football Association of Ireland is also recruiting a Head of Region to lead grassroots football development across Connacht.

Reporting to the Head of Grassroots, the successful candidate will provide strategic, operational and people leadership while aligning regional activity with the FAI Strategy and Football Pathways Plan.

Key Responsibilities

  • Develop and implement a regional football plan.
  • Lead and support Regional Leads in delivering consistent programmes.
  • Use data and stakeholder feedback to inform planning and resource allocation.
  • Identify opportunities to increase participation and regional growth.
  • Build relationships with local authorities, leagues, clubs and community organisations.
  • Represent the FAI at regional meetings, consultations and events.
  • Help implement a governance framework for grassroots football.
  • Support local development plans, facilities projects and participation initiatives.
  • Manage and report on local-authority grant funding.
  • Promote investment in community participation and football infrastructure.
  • Coordinate regional activity with other FAI functions and Heads of Region.
  • Communicate emerging regional risks, opportunities and requirements.

Applicants require either a relevant third-level qualification in sports management or a related discipline, or at least five years’ experience in grassroots football, sports development or a comparable environment.

Significant strategic-planning or operational-delivery experience is required, together with a strong understanding of football governance and grassroots structures. Candidates should also have experience managing teams across multiple locations and working with local authorities and community partners.

Business experience, financial management skills, and experience implementing strategy or managing risk would be advantageous.

This is a full-time specified-purpose contract providing maternity-leave cover. The role combines work at FAI headquarters in Abbottstown with regional activity throughout Connacht and operates on a hybrid basis.

Applications close at the end of Wednesday, October 28th, 2026. Jobs at Football Association of Ireland

View the complete vacancy and apply directly through the FAI.

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FINANCE DIRECTOR AT SPECIAL OLYMPICS IRELAND

Special Olympics Ireland is recruiting a Finance Director to provide strategic financial leadership across its all-island organisation.

Reporting directly to the Chief Executive Officer and serving on the Executive Leadership Team, the successful candidate will lead financial planning, governance, reporting and organisational transformation while advising the Board and Finance, Audit and Risk Committee.

Key Responsibilities

  • Develop and implement a finance-transformation roadmap.
  • Lead the selection and implementation of a modern finance or ERP system.
  • Oversee annual budgets, forecasts and longer-term financial planning.
  • Strengthen management reporting, scenario planning and financial analysis.
  • Manage cash flow, reserves, investments and financial risk.
  • Ensure compliance with statutory, audit, and charity accounting requirements.
  • Maintain appropriate controls for grants, restricted funds and donor income.
  • Lead and develop the finance team.
  • Advise the CEO, Board and Finance, Audit and Risk Committee.
  • Improve the quality and timeliness of financial information available to management.

Applicants must hold an ACA, ACCA, CIMA, CPA or equivalent professional qualification and possess significant post-qualification experience in a senior finance-leadership position.

Experience leading finance transformation and implementing a modern ERP or accounting platform is required. Candidates should also demonstrate a strong knowledge of charity accounting, including Charities SORP, restricted funds, reserves and grant management.

The role is hybrid, with two days each week at Special Olympics Ireland’s offices on the Sport Ireland Campus in Dublin.

Benefits include 25 days’ annual leave, increasing with service, a seven-per-cent employer pension contribution, and access to employee wellbeing benefits.

Submit applications, including a CV and cover letter, through the organisation’s current recruitment route by 5 PM on Thursday, November 12th, 2026.

Apply via LinkedIn

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GOVERNANCE BUSINESS PARTNER AND DEPUTY COMPANY SECRETARY AT THE FAI

The Football Association of Ireland is recruiting a Governance Business Partner and Deputy Company Secretary to support its Board, committees and wider governance framework.

Reporting to the Company Secretary, the successful candidate will provide governance and company-secretarial advice throughout the Association and deputise for the Company Secretary when required.

Key Responsibilities

  • Support Board, committee, and General Assembly meetings.
  • Prepare meeting papers, agendas, minutes, work plans and action records.
  • Maintain statutory registers and coordinate CRO filings, resolutions and conflict-of-interest records.
  • Support the administration of annual and extraordinary general meetings.
  • Provide governance advice to senior leaders and departmental teams.
  • Assist with Board induction, training and evaluation.
  • Act as secretary to designated committees and subsidiary bodies.
  • Support regulatory matters, tribunals and integrity investigations.
  • Maintain appropriate data-protection and confidentiality standards.
  • Improve governance processes and supporting technology.

Applicants should possess a relevant qualification in law, governance, business, company secretarial practice or a related discipline. A recognised governance or company-secretarial qualification, or significant equivalent experience, is required.

Candidates should have experience supporting Boards and committees and a good working knowledge of Irish company law, statutory filings and governance requirements. Experience within sport, a membership organisation or another regulated environment would be advantageous.

This is a permanent, full-time position based at FAI headquarters. Hybrid and flexible working are included, although occasional evening and weekend attendance will be required.

Applications close on Friday, October 30th, 2026. Jobs at Football Association of Ireland

View the complete vacancy and apply directly through the FAI.

 

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FINANCIAL ACCOUNTANT AT TENNIS IRELAND

Tennis Ireland is recruiting a Financial Accountant to support its financial reporting, budgeting, controls and compliance requirements.

Reporting to the Finance Director, the successful candidate will provide financial information and analysis to senior management while supporting the organisation’s Board committees, audit process and grant-funded programmes.

Key Responsibilities

  • Prepare budgets, forecasts, management accounts and cash-flow reports.
  • Support monthly and year-end reporting and prepare consolidated financial statements.
  • Assist with grant applications, reporting and compliance.
  • Maintain effective financial policies and internal controls.
  • Oversee banking, cash, debtor and creditor processes.
  • Support the annual external audit.
  • Coordinate statutory and tax filings with Revenue, HMRC and the Companies Registration Office.
  • Provide financial analysis and advice to senior management.
  • Support payroll liaison and day-to-day transaction processing.
  • Prepare financial information for relevant Board committees.

Applicants must hold an ACA, ACCA, CIMA, CPA or equivalent professional qualification and possess between two and three years’ post-qualification experience.

Experience producing management accounts and year-end financial statements is required, together with strong budgeting, forecasting, cash-flow and financial-control skills. Experience with Xero, grant reporting, in sport, a membership body, or the charitable sector would be advantageous.

The role is offered on a full-time, two-year fixed-term contract, comprising 37.5 hours per week and subject to a six-month probationary period. It will operate on a hybrid basis from Tennis Ireland’s headquarters on the Sport Ireland Campus in Blanchardstown. Salary will depend on experience.

Applications comprising a cover letter and CV should be emailed to hr@tennisireland.ie, using “Financial Accountant Role” as the subject.

The closing time is 12 noon on Wednesday, October 21st, 2026. Late applications will not be accepted. tennisireland.ie

View the complete Tennis Ireland specification.

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LEAD ATHLETIC DEVELOPMENT COACH, MEN’S UNDER-20s AT THE IRFU

The Irish Rugby Football Union is recruiting a Lead Athletic Development Coach to oversee athletic development and sports-science support for the Ireland Men’s Under-20 programme.

Reporting to the IRFU Head of Athletic Performance and Science, the successful candidate will prepare players for national camps and the 2027 Under-20 Six Nations and Junior World Championship.

Key Responsibilities

  • Design and deliver athletic-development programmes covering training, recovery and match preparation.
  • Individualise programmes around each player’s athletic profile and provincial development plan.
  • Coach players in the gym and on the pitch.
  • Coordinate with provincial academy, athletic-performance, medical, nutrition and psychology staff.
  • Implement performance testing and monitor players daily.
  • Record and analyse training, testing, workload and match-time data.
  • Produce player profiles and data visualisations for coaches and provincial staff.
  • Support injury-risk reduction, return-to-play planning and player welfare.

Applicants require a degree or Higher National Diploma in physical education, human movement, exercise science or sports science.

At least three years’ experience in an athletic-performance or strength-and-conditioning position within elite or professional rugby is required, although candidates from other elite sports may be considered.

Additional criteria include a postgraduate qualification, recognised strength-and-conditioning accreditation, GPS and workload-management experience, pathway coaching experience, and First Aid and CPR certification.

This is a part-time, one-year fixed-term contract covering approximately 100 working days. The position is based in County Dublin and will involve scheduled camps during November and December 2026 and January and February 2027, followed by the competition windows.

Salary will depend on experience.

Applications close on Friday, October 23rd, 2026.

View the complete vacancy and apply through the IRFU recruitment portal.

The IRFU is an equal-opportunities employer.

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HOSPITALITY MANAGER AT CONNACHT RUGBY

Connacht Rugby is recruiting a Hospitality Manager to develop and sell premium match-day experiences at Dexcom Stadium while increasing hospitality revenue and profitability.

Reporting to the Senior Commercial Manager, the successful candidate will manage the club’s hospitality portfolio and work closely with its commercial, stadium operations, catering, and events teams.

Key Responsibilities

  • Develop and continually improve Connacht Rugby’s premium hospitality products.
  • Design distinctive match-day experiences and manage the complete customer journey.
  • Prepare hospitality sales plans and deliver annual revenue targets.
  • Sell seasonal packages, corporate memberships and match-day hospitality.
  • Retain and develop existing corporate accounts while securing new business.
  • Manage renewals, upselling and hospitality information within the club’s CRM system.
  • Develop pricing strategies based on demand, sales performance, and competitor activity.
  • Manage hospitality budgets, margins, occupancy and spend-per-head performance.
  • Coordinate with catering and suppliers to control costs and protect service standards.
  • Provide operational information to stadium and catering teams ahead of fixtures.
  • Coordinate lounge-host staffing and maintain premium standards.

Connacht Rugby seeks candidates with three to five years’ experience in hospitality, venue management, sport, entertainment, or premium events.

Applicants should have a proven record in sales, business development, and revenue generation, along with experience managing pricing, profitability, and premium customer programmes.

This is a full-time, two-year fixed-term contract based at Dexcom Stadium in Galway. Connacht Rugby operates a hybrid model requiring at least three office days each week.

The role requires flexible evening and weekend work, including attendance at every Connacht Rugby fixture.

Submit applications, including a cover letter and current CV, by Sunday, October 25th, 2026.

View the complete vacancy and apply through Connacht Rugby.

Connacht Rugby is an equal-opportunities employer.

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HIGH PERFORMANCE PATHWAY COACH AT CYCLING IRELAND

Cycling Ireland is recruiting a High Performance Pathway Coach to identify, develop and support young riders as they progress towards senior international competition.

Working with the High Performance Pathway Lead, Head Coach, National Track Coach and Sport Ireland Institute practitioners, the successful candidate will support riders primarily through the final youth, junior and early senior age groups.

Key Responsibilities

  • Deliver and further develop Cycling Ireland’s pathway programme from under-16 through junior and into the senior ranks.
  • Lead athlete programming, coaching, performance reviews and competition planning.
  • Coordinate nutrition, psychology, physiology and performance-lifestyle support.
  • Lead junior domestic and international training and competition programmes.
  • Support under-23 programme activity and the transition from junior to senior competition.
  • Develop talent-identification initiatives and maintain a presence at key domestic events.
  • Contribute to major-event qualification, selection policies and team recommendations.
  • Coordinate coaches, support staff and volunteers during pathway events and training camps.
  • Work with education providers, Local Sports Partnerships, clubs and provincial structures.
  • Monitor programme delivery and provide reports and performance insights.

Applicants must have experience working with young athletes in a high-performance pathway, talent-identification, or long-term athlete-development environment.

Candidates should possess recognised cycling-coaching qualifications, or be working towards them, together with a relevant qualification in sports science, coaching, sports management or a related discipline. Equivalent professional or high-performance riding experience may be considered.

Strong knowledge of international high-performance cycling and experience leading programmes involving athletes, coaches, staff or volunteers are required. A full driving licence and willingness to undertake domestic and international travel and regular evening and weekend work are essential.

This is a permanent, full-time position comprising 39 hours per week. It is based at Cycling Ireland’s headquarters on the Sport Ireland Campus in Blanchardstown, with remote working and irregular hours required at times.

The salary is €36,000 to €41,000, depending on qualifications and experience. The role includes an employer pension scheme and 25 days’ annual leave.

Email applications, including a cover letter and CV, to myra.mcglynn@cyclingireland.ie, copying iain.dyer@cyclingireland.ie, by Sunday, November 1st, 2026.

Cycling Ireland is an equal-opportunities employer.

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SCHOOLS DEVELOPMENT COORDINATOR AT CYCLING IRELAND

Cycling Ireland is also recruiting a Schools Development Coordinator to support the quality, delivery and expansion of its national school-based cycling programmes.

The successful candidate will evaluate and develop programmes, produce training and educational resources and support the national network of trainers, schools and delivery partners.

Key Responsibilities

  • Lead the delivery of Cycling Ireland’s national schools cycle-training programme.
  • Expand cycling programmes across primary and secondary schools.
  • Develop progressive participation pathways for young people.
  • Provide day-to-day support to trainers and facilitators.
  • Coordinate programme communications, resources and training opportunities.
  • Develop and deliver training courses and supporting materials.
  • Evaluate existing courses, analyse feedback and recommend improvements.
  • Maintain course content, assessment tools and quality standards.
  • Support trainer recruitment, recognition, retention and development.
  • Build relationships with schools, training centres, local authorities and programme partners.
  • Represent Cycling Ireland at relevant meetings, events and training sessions.

Applicants should have experience in programme delivery, training, education or coordination. Strong organisational, communication, and stakeholder-management skills are required, along with competence in websites, social media, and digital communications.

The advertisement does not specify a minimum qualification or number of years’ experience.

This is a full-time position comprising 39 hours per week, based at Cycling Ireland’s headquarters on the Sport Ireland Campus in Blanchardstown. Travel and occasional evening and weekend work will be required.

Salary will depend on experience and available funding. The published specification does not state whether the contract is permanent or fixed-term.  Applications comprising a CV and cover letter should be emailed to myra.mcglynn@cyclingireland.ie by 3 PM on Friday, October 30th, 2026.

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BROADCAST PRODUCT MANAGER AT THE UNITED RUGBY CHAMPIONSHIP

The United Rugby Championship is recruiting a Broadcast Product Manager to help develop its television and digital-broadcast offering and strengthen relationships with the competition’s broadcast partners.

Reporting to the Media Director, the successful candidate will combine editorial planning, live-broadcast operations, stakeholder management and content development.

Key Responsibilities

  • Act as the principal day-to-day contact for broadcasters, production teams, clubs and the URC tournament team.
  • Provide broadcasters with editorial guidance, key messages, statistics and supporting material.
  • Manage the URC graphics package and oversee broadcaster compliance with production requirements.
  • Coordinate match-feed distribution and contribute to the operation of URCtv.
  • Approve camera plans and maintain the tournament’s broadcaster manual.
  • Manage broadcast planning and delivery around the URC Grand Final.
  • Support fixture scheduling and communicate changes to broadcasters.
  • Manage cloud-based archive footage and share content between broadcasters and clubs.
  • Develop collaborative and innovative projects with broadcast partners.
  • Support premium video content involving the URC’s commercial partners.
  • Coordinate video coverage at media events, awards and play-off matches.
  • Contribute to future broadcast-rights sales projects

Applicants must have at least five years’ experience in rugby, sports broadcasting, or tournament operations. A relevant third-level qualification is preferred.

Candidates should have experience working on live rugby broadcasts in studios and at venues, together with a strong understanding of broadcast operations and feed distribution. Excellent editorial judgement, planning, stakeholder-management and problem-solving skills are required.

This is a full-time position, normally working Monday to Friday with event-based weekend commitments compensated through time off during the week. The advertisement does not specify whether the appointment is permanent or fixed-term.

The role is currently based at the URC’s Dublin office, although UK-based candidates may also be considered through its London operation. Two office days per week are mandatory, with working-from-home flexibility available.

Regular travel will be required, including to the UK and South Africa. Salary will depend on experience.

Email applications, including a CV and cover letter, directly to URC Media Director Adam Redmond at Adam.redmond@unitedrugby.com by Friday, October 23rd, 2026.

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