National Associations Research Coordinator

Division/Unit: National Associations/NA Strategic Development
Contract type: Permanent
Start date: 01.09.2025 or as soon as possible
Application deadline: 09.07.2025

Main goal
The National Associations Strategic Development unit exists to help national associations achieve their potential. Our mission is to generate and gather knowledge, establish services for national associations and bring people together. To help us deliver on this mission, we are looking for a NA Research Coordinator to join our team. Gathering insights is an important aspect of our UEFA Grow programme, which works with and for national associations to grow football.

The NA Research Coordinator will work on various research and strategic development projects and play a critical role in improving the unit’s knowledge about UEFA’s 55 member associations, their markets and football in general.

The NA Research Coordinator will conduct primary and secondary research, analyse data, derive insights, create reports and present findings to the unit and other stakeholders. The NA Research Coordinator will centralise the knowledge from various research projects, contribute to NA-specific strategic context analyses and run benchmarking studies across the 55 markets on a variety of topics. The role will require excellent collaboration with a range of stakeholders (e.g. team members, other UEFA units, research agencies and UEFA member associations).

Key Responsibilities

• Conducting research and gathering data related to UEFA member associations and their corresponding markets
• Designing and implementing surveys and other research methods to gather data
• Analysing data using qualitative and quantitative methods and transforming data into knowledge
• Preparing reports, presentations and visualisations of research findings (based on various data sources) for strategic development initiatives
• Structuring data and knowledge about UEFA’s 55 member associations, their markets and football in general
• Taking responsibility for the delivery and further development of a range of NA research services (for example, NA consumer research, market intelligence, audience data, trend monitoring, NA surveys)
• Maintaining an overview of research activities of UEFA’s member associations and organising knowledge-sharing initiatives
• Coordinating administrative aspects, such as access to self-service data tools or research project management, with internal and external stakeholders
• Assisting the unit with other tasks and project or event support as required

Requirements
Experience:

• At least 2 years’ experience in a client-facing role, ideally within sport, in an international environment
• Background in (market) research, commercial monitoring, market intelligence & development as well as project management
• Experience of conceptualising and delivering research services for stakeholders is desirable
• Experience of running cross-country research projects or benchmarking studies would be a plus

Education:

• Degree in business administration, management, statistics, sports management or similar
• Minimum bachelor’s degree; a master’s degree is desirable
• Certificates relating to project management or data analytics would be a plus

Languages:

• English: Proficient

Other requirements:

• Advanced MS Office user
• Understanding of survey design and data structures
• Service orientated, team player and solutions-driven
• Comfortable in presenting and communicating
• Willing to conduct desk research on various topics relating to football, often on unfamiliar topics or markets
• Able to provide senior management with the foundation on which to build recommendations for the strategic development of national associations
• Good attention to detail but also able to grasp the bigger picture
• Digitally savvy
• Approachable, personable and willing to work in a collaborative manner
• Willing to travel occasionally

UEFA welcomes applications from all, actively working to ensure that we are an inclusive employer that finds the best candidate for our positions, regardless of aspects such as sex, gender identification, disability, age, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity or nationality.