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- Where
- Lagos, Nigeria
- How to apply
- Directly to the employer by email. The address is in the listing below.
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Role purpose
To provide strategic and operational leadership for sport across the school, building a distinctive, safe, and high-performing sports culture that serves every student-from participation to physical literacy to competitive excellence and external pathways. The Head of Sports will connect curriculum PE, swimming, competitive sport, coaching, facilities, talent development, partnerships, events, data, and school visibility into one coherent whole-school sports strategy.
Key Accountabilities
Strategy & whole-school leadership
Develop and implement a 3-5 year sports strategy aligned with the school's educational vision and growth priorities.
Create a coherent sports identity and minimum standards across campuses while allowing appropriate campus-level ownership.
Build an annual sports operating plan, calendar, budget, and performance scorecard; report progress, risks and opportunities to leadership.
Advise leadership on sports investment, staffing, facilities, equipment, and program priorities.
Student participation, curriculum & wellbeing
Work with academic and campus leaders to ensure high-quality PE and physical literacy from early years through secondary school.
Increase meaningful participation in sport, including for students who are not naturally drawn to competitive teams.
Ensure programs are inclusive, age-appropriate, and responsive to differing ability levels and learning needs.
Use sport deliberately to build discipline, teamwork, resilience, leadership, well-being, and school belonging.
Performance sport & talent pathways
Establish transparent selection, training, and development frameworks for school teams and individual athletes.
Strengthen competitive performance across priority sports, including swimming, while developing a balanced portfolio of sports.
Create talent identification and athlete-development pathways, including links to clubs, federations, academies, universities, and scholarship opportunities.
Set appropriate performance benchmarks and track athlete progress without allowing elite sport to crowd out broad participation.
Coaching, people & culture
Lead, develop, and quality-assure sports coordinators, coaches, and external providers.
Set coaching standards, role expectations, observation routines, and professional-development priorities.
Build a culture in which coaches are educators and role models, not only technical specialists.
Support recruitment and deployment of high-quality coaches and specialist practitioners.
Competitions, events & partnerships
Develop a purposeful annual calendar of inter-house, inter-school, league, tournament, and showcase opportunities.
Strengthen the school's reputation through well-run sporting events and appropriate hosting of external competitions.
Develop credible partnerships with sporting bodies, clubs, academies, sponsors, and the community. organizations where these advance student opportunities.
Identify opportunities for camps, clinics, tours, and visiting specialists with clear educational and commercial rationale.
Facilities and operations & safeguarding
Oversee effective use of sports facilities, including pools, fields, courts, gyms, and specialist spaces, in collaboration with campus and operations teams.
Maintain clear standards for equipment, scheduling, risk assessment, emergency response, and event operations.
Ensure robust safeguarding, child protection, health and safety, supervision, and coach-vetting practices across all sports activities.
Partner with medical and pastoral teams on injury management, return-to-play, and student welfare.
Data, visibility & continuous improvement
Build a sports dashboard covering participation, team performance, athlete progression, attendance, facility use, injuries, events, partnerships, and relevant financial measures.
Use data and feedback to identify gaps by age, gender, campus, and sport, and adjust provision accordingly.
Work with marketing and admissions to tell authentic sports stories and showcase opportunities without compromising student welfare or educational priorities.
Benchmark the program against strong schools and emerging best practice locally and internationally.
Qualification and Requirement
Significant leadership experience in school sport, youth sport, an academy, club, or comparable multi-programme environment; evidence of leading people and programmes, not only coaching a team.
Relevant degree or professional qualification in Physical Education, Sports Science, sports management, coaching, education, or a related field. Appropriate coaching qualifications are expected.
Ability to set strategy and still execute; able to influence senior leaders, campus teams, parents, coaches, and external partners.
Strong understanding of youth athlete development, coaching quality, competition structures, safeguarding, risk, and sports operations.
Able to evaluate partnerships, sponsorships, camps, and external opportunities through both educational and financial lenses.
Comfortable setting KPIs, analyzing participation/performance data, and using evidence to make decisions.
Clear, credible, and energetic communicator who can represent the school externally and build confidence internally.
Minimum qualifications
BA/BSc/HND
How to apply
Send CV to: recruitment.lekki@greenspringsschool.com
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