Southwest Regional Manager

British Triathlon Federation

Hours
36.5 hours per week

About the Organisation

British Triathlon is the national governing body for triathlon, paratriathlon and related multisport in Great Britain. Our mission is to grow the sport at every level, and we are passionate about creating an environment that makes Britain the world’s leading triathlon nation - enabling success on the international stage and increasing participation in swim, bike, run across diverse communities. We are:

• Inclusive: Welcomes and supports people from all backgrounds, ensuring everyone can participate, feel safe and belong.
• People Centred: puts athletes, volunteers, colleagues and communities at the heart of decisions and ways of working.
• Ambitious: Strives for high performance and continuous improvement, on and off the field of play.
• Do What’s Right: acts with integrity, transparency and fairness, even when that is the more challenging route

If you can bring skills and ambition to an inclusive, people‑centred workplace; who are determined to create positive impact; and who value doing what’s right above doing what is simply expected – we want to hear from you!

About the role

The Regional Development Manager has lead responsibility and ownership for their geographic region. They will work across a wide portfolio to grow Swim, Bike, Run and Triathlon in their region as well as contribute to our national strategies, including our Development Strategy for England, The BIG Active. The seven work strands below set out the main areas of the portfolio:

• Driving the work in our Priority Places to embed Swim, Bike and Run into the way in which communities are physically active, working with and through local ecosystems and key stakeholders and partners therein.
• Activating and enabling delivery of our main three development programmes within and across the region; Swim, Bike, Run, Active Skills for Life and Beyond Swim.
• Overseeing the support, development and offer to the affiliated club network.
• Overseeing the support to the coach and workforce education work strand at regional level
• Working with and through the Regional Committee to drive the growth and development of Swim, Bike, Run and Triathlon across the region.
• Support the growth of permitted events within and across the region through developing and maintaining relationships with a range of event organisers and deliverers.
• Supporting the safeguarding and compliance work strand at regional level.

The Regional Development Manager will report into one of the Heads of Department within the Development Directorate. Whilst functional line management sits with a single Head of Department, support, mentorship and work plan management will come from the wider leadership team within the Development Directorate. The successful candidate will be an integral and valued member of both the Regional Team and the wider Development Team and is likely to thrive through developing and maintaining close working relationships with members of these teams as well as members of other teams and directorates across British Triathlon.

Responsibilities

Key Tasks:

• Develop and maintain an annual Regional Plan (April - March), ensuring connectivity to the national strategy and its annual objectives and targets.
• Provide quarterly quantitative and qualitative updates on performance against the Regional Plan and against other metrics as required across the Development Directorate.
• Provide ongoing qualitative reflections and learning as part of the wider performance management and learning approach of the Development Directorate.
• Contributing to a range of internal working groups at national level to steer the strategic direction and operations of the team.
• Lead both strategic and operational relationships and partnerships across the region and beyond, particularly with our deliverers, Local Authorities, Active Partnerships, Community Organisations and many others.
• Provide line management, leadership and direction to a Club Development Officer resource which works within the region, specifically overseeing their work in two of the seven work strands listed above.
• Maintain a working knowledge of the operation of the sport across the region being the ‘eyes and ears of the region’.
• Support the growth of British Triathlon/Triathlon England membership.
• Work to support the team’s targets around equality and diversity across the sport at local level and beyond.
• Where appropriate, provide line management, mentorship and support to activators or apprentices or others employed within the region.
• Work as a key member of the regional manager team as well as the wider Development Directorate.
• Provide outstanding service to relevant internal and external customers.
• Communicate effectively, including use of social media channels, in accordance with BTF protocols.

Skills, Competencies, Experience & Attributes

Experience:

• Good understanding and working knowledge of the sport and physical activity landscape (particularly at local/regional levels) including local, regional and national sport and physical activity strategies, campaigns and programmes.
• Experience of providing line management, leadership and support to others.
• Experience of working within sport and physical activity
• Good working knowledge of the sports and physical activities of swim, bike, run and triathlon
• Experience of generating, developing and delivering multi-agency projects within communities at local level.

Knowledge & Skills Essential:

• Strong planning skills, thoroughly organised and able to prioritise and action work across a broad portfolio.
• Ability to lead and influence others.
• Highly motivated and self-driven with the ability to work on own impetus.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Capable of building strong and effective relationships and partnerships, both at strategic and operational levels.
• Must be computer literate, including use of Office products, Outlook,
• Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• Strong written and oral presentation skills with the ability to lead meetings. 
• Ability to work with volunteers.

Compensation & Benefits

• 25 days’ annual leave (plus flexible holiday buying) and increases with service
• Enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption pay
• Dedicated time for personal and team learning and development
• Two paid volunteer days per year
• Free parking at Loughborough University campus
• Plus additional car allowance of £3,500 - £4,000 per year. 
• Pension, life assurance, and private medical insurance to care for you and loved ones
• Healthy lifestyle support, including discounted gym membership at Loughborough University campus and a cycle to work scheme

Working locations

• Home-based
• Extensive travel across the region and some travel across England.

How to apply

• If you’re inspired and excited about working at British Triathlon, we’d love to hear from you. Please have a good read through of the full Job Description, then submit your CV and a covering letter (or another format if you prefer), explaining why you feel you are suitable for the role.
• For informal enquiries about the role, please contact Oli Mitchell, Head of Sport Development, at [email protected].
• This role will close on Sunday 2nd August 2026 at midnight. We encourage early applications as the role may close once sufficient suitable applications have been received. To enable us to focus our time on suitable candidates, we consider but are unable to reply to all applications.

Interviews

• If you have not heard from us within ten working days of the closing date, please assume your application has not been successful. Due to the number of applications we receive for our roles, we are unable to provide feedback before the interview stage.
• We’d love to meet you for an in-person interview on Wednesday 19th August 2026 in our office in Loughborough.

Policies

Should you require assistance with the application process, please contact HR, and we will make every effort to meet your specific requirements. Details of our Equality and Diversity Policy.

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