Mega Events Officer

UK Sport; Greater London, Manchester, Loughborough; Hybrid; GBP 47,000; Full time

Job summary

An leading sports organization is seeking an enthusiastic individual to join their Mega Event Team. This role focuses on providing strategic oversight and ensuring the successful implementation of the UK Sport’s strategy for Mega Events. The ideal candidate will coordinate project management, manage reporting requirements, and track milestones to support positive change in high-performance sport. Located in Loughborough, London, or Manchester, this permanent position offers hybrid working opportunities and a salary of £47,000 per annum plus generous benefits.

Benefits

Generous benefits

Qualifications

• Experience in project management.
• Ability to provide strategic oversight for mega events.
• Passionate about driving positive change in high-performance sports.

Responsibilities

• Lead the implementation of UK Sport's strategy for Mega Events.
• Manage reporting requirements and track project milestones.
• Coordinate with the Major Events team for project consistency.

Job description

Organisation UK Sport Salary Grade 4 - £47,000 per annum plus generous benefits.
Location: Loughborough, London or Manchester based, with flexible hybrid working and some travel within the UK required.
Contract Type: Permanent
Closing Date: 18/01/2026

Who are UK Sport?

We are the UK’s trusted high-performance experts, powering our greatest athletes, teams, sports and events to achieve positive success. Investing a combination of National Lottery and Government funds, we support our Olympic and Paralympic sports to realise their world-leading potential, and we are the government’s lead technical agency for major events in the UK. We work closely with our sporting, national and regional partners to ensure that the UK successfully bids for and stages some of the world’s biggest international sporting events. Our purpose is to lead high-performance sport to enable extraordinary moments that enrich lives.
We are on a mission – to create the greatest decade of extraordinary sporting moments; reaching, inspiring and uniting the nation. That mission is underpinned by three ambitions for UK high-performance sport; to keep winning and win well, to grow a thriving sporting system and to harness those to inspire positive change. Working with the sports and events we fund, DCMS, and our partner organisations across the UK high-performance system, we are building on 25 years of ever-growing success to write the UK’s next chapter for Olympic and Paralympic sport.

About the Role

This is an exciting opportunity to play a key part in shaping the future of high-performance sport in the UK. The Mega Event Team at UK Sport has the specific purpose of providing strategic oversight and leading the frontline implementation of UK Sport’s strategy for Mega Events and provides a critical role to UK Government by acting as the technical agency for mega events. This includes providing specific advice to government on mega event prioritisation, feasibility, and bidding.
This role will lead on providing high quality support across the mega event programme, including tracking cross-workstream activity, managing all reporting requirements and ensuring that programme / project milestones are on track. The role will coordinate with the wider Major Events team to ensure consistency of project management and will be expected to support with special projects, including industry research and knowledge transfer.
If you’re passionate about driving positive change, enjoy working collaboratively, this role offers the chance to make a real difference to UK high-performance sport.
A full role overview is available in the Job Description.
To note interviews will take place across the 29th Jan / 4th & 5th Feb 2026

How to apply

Please see below link: https://uksport.current-vacancies.com/Jobs/Advert/4052828?cid=3176