Senior Safeguarding and Education Advisor - Safeguarding and Integrity

England & Wales Cricket Board; Wales; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A national sports governing body is looking for a Senior Safeguarding and Education Advisor to lead safeguarding initiatives across England and Wales. This role involves managing a team to ensure compliance and delivering educational programs. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in safeguarding, excellent leadership skills, and a passion for creating safer sports environments. Benefits include a competitive salary, health insurance, and 25 days of holiday.

Benefits

Competitive salary

25 days holiday

Private medical insurance

Pension plan

Qualifications

• Proven experience in a senior safeguarding role.
• Ability to lead a team successfully.
• Strong knowledge of integrity across sport.

Responsibilities

• Assist the Head of Education & Support in operational delivery.
• Line manage a team of County Safeguarding Advisors.
• Deliver safeguarding training across the cricket network.

Skills

Leadership

Safeguarding knowledge

Relationship management

Communication skills

Flexibility

Job description

Senior Safeguarding and Education Advisor - Safeguarding and Integrity

Organisation England & Wales Cricket Board Salary Competitive Location England and Wales - 3 days a week working out in the network or at an ECB office location Contract type Permanent (Full time) Closing date 15 August 2025 Job Description PURPOSE

Established in December 2023, the Cricket Regulator was set up to be the ring-fenced executive team responsible for ensuring effective education programmes are in place; to operate best practice monitoring, intelligence, and compliance programmes; to investigate alleged breaches, and to prosecute cases where considered appropriate.

The Cricket Regulator focuses on Anti-Corruption, Anti-Discrimination, Anti-Doping, Safeguarding, General Misconduct, and Agency activity in the professional game, as well as other designated levels of organised cricket. Safeguarding and Anti-Discrimination also involves working with other organisations across the recreational game. The Cricket Regulator also ensures cricket in England and Wales meets the regulatory requirements of the International Cricket Council, and also playing a lead role in combatting global threats.

The roles and responsibilities of the Cricket Regulator were previously carried out by an ECB team, which has largely transitioned across to the new structure. An objective in the creation of the Cricket Regulator was to create greater assurance around the separation between regulatory functions and the remainder of the ECB activities.

To provide support and guidance to cricket organisations across England and Wales on safeguarding and assist them with achieving the highest possible standards within the County Partnership Agreement.

Assist the Head of Education & Support to drive proactive education and meet standards across the game in safeguarding, anti-discrimination, discipline and integrity.

Manage a team of County Safeguarding Advisors and work with county organisations to achieve compliance with the County Partnership Agreement (CPA) and drive culture change.

THE ECB

The England and Wales Cricket Board is the national governing body for cricket in England and Wales, supporting the game at every level, covering the recreational and professional games. The goal of the ECB is for cricket to be the most inclusive team sport, through delivering the Inspiring Generations strategy and fulfilling the ECB purpose to connect communities and improve lives through cricket.

The ECB Board has the power to set standards in relation to on and off field activity and does so through regulations. The ECB General Counsel has executive responsibility for the ECB regulations, reporting to the ECB Chief Executive. All proposed regulation must be scrutinised by the Regulatory Board, who advise the ECB Board.

YOU’LL LOVE THIS JOB IF

You have a passion to design, create and deliver education and provide exceptional support within a safeguarding, anti-discrimination, discipline and integrity function across cricket

You can lead a team of advisors to achieve consistent and robust provision across England and Wales whilst also supporting any counties allocated to you to achieve compliance by leading through example

You have proven experience and skills within the Cricket Regulator functions along with a history of strong leadership and evidence of driving change within a team / network

You are flexible, adaptable and can work under pressure

WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING

Assisting the Head of Education & Support within Cricket Regulator departments i.e. discipline, anti-discrimination and integrity as well as safeguarding

Supporting the Head of Education & Support with the operational delivery plan for the department

Line Managing a team of County Safeguarding Advisors (x 3)

Supporting CSAs with safeguarding cases when they do not meet threshold level and require additional cricket regulator guidance at county level

Allocate work to CSAs through a risk-based approach being the responsible person throughout this process to ensure concerns are picked up promptly, responded to and reported on in a timely manner

Providing guidance and sharing best practise on how counties can move towards compliance in safeguarding and strive for Leading Organisation status

Strategic liaison with CEO’s, Board Safeguarding Leads and Lead Officers to ensure consistent Safeguarding standards across the County network

Deliver educational talks to professional game i.e. The Hundred & T20

Lead on the audit & Quality Assurance Check process as required by the Head of Education & Support

Ensure ECB Safe Hands policies and guidance are up to date

Support development and implementation of digital safeguarding solutions including low-level safeguarding concerns within the Clue case management system.

Develop and deliver safeguarding training to ensure the needs of the cricket network are met including Board Safeguarding Training, Committee Training etc



YOU’LL HAVE

Experience of leading a team with proven track record of success

Experience in a senior safeguarding role

Knowledge of integrity across sport

Excellent relationship management and interpersonal skills

Confidence and ability to deliver training and host events / meetings / webinars

Flexible, can-do attitude with a passion to create safer cultures and environments



YOU’LL RECEIVE

Competitive salary

Holiday - 25 days a year; and Volunteering - 2 days a year

Pension - Non-contributory pension

Private medical insurance and long-term sickness insurance

Employee health cash-back plan

Life assurance - four times your annual basic salary

Enhanced family leave and pay

Other competitive benefits, and access to support and development programmes

We welcome and encourage applications from all backgrounds. How to apply Please apply at the link below:https://app.beapplied.com/apply/phfzt9r7yt