FA LAUNCHES FOOTBALL LEADERSHIP DIVERSITY CODE CAREERS PLATFORM

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2021-03-11T14:41:48.685Z

FA LAUNCHES FOOTBALL LEADERSHIP DIVERSITY CODE CAREERS PLATFORM

2021-03-11T14:41:48.685Z

The Football Association [The FA] has launched a central careers platform to create greater transparency of roles available to individuals across English football, and to help organisations and clubs reach a larger and more diverse audience of candidates.

Any organisation or club which has signed up to the Football Leadership Diversity Code will be able to advertise vacancies on the platform.

The FA launched the Football Leadership Diversity Code for the professional game in October 2020, with signatories including the Premier League and over 40 clubs across the Premier League, English Football League, Barclays FA Women’s Super League and FA Women’s Championship. Its aim is to increase equality of opportunity, moving away from recruitment practices focused on personal networks, and ensuring that candidates across the game are recruited from diverse talent pools.

With the visibility of roles across English football identified as a key issue during the development of the Football Leadership Diversity Code, all signatories agree to advertise appropriate roles centrally for at least two weeks to help reach a broader audience and attract more candidates from both within and outside of the game.

Since its launch, a further 10 clubs have signed up to the Football Leadership Diversity Code, taking the current total of club signatories to 51. In addition to this, the English Football League and several recruitment agencies have committed to being signatories of the Code.

The full list of new signatories includes:

• AFC Bournemouth • Charlton Athletic • Cheltenham Town • Doncaster Rovers • Forest Green Rovers • Huddersfield Town • Northampton Town • Rotherham United • Walsall