Course Director in Sport Management

Leeds Beckett University is currently seeking to appoint a Course Director in Sport Management to lead on the delivery and development of postgraduate taught, continuing professional development and executive education provision in the subject. We are looking for an inspiring and enthusiastic academic to support the leadership of a team of experienced staff and to make a key contribution to our provision through teaching, research and knowledge exchange.

Applications are invited from persons with suitable professional, managerial and academic backgrounds to lead this curriculum area. The post holder will need to have appropriate experience within the wider Sport Management discipline, with extensive knowledge and experience of course management and innovation, with an ability to support the leadership of the undergraduate portfolio. They must demonstrate a track record of research and professional practice within their discipline, leading to impactful research and/or knowledge exchange activities.

The successful applicant will join an established School that has seen significant investment and growth in staffing, undergraduate and postgraduate taught provision, postgraduate research, collaborative partnerships and facilities in recent years. Our strength is the breadth and depth of our curriculum, research, and knowledge exchange portfolio, which is enriched by the disciplinary and lived experience of our staff and students, and strengthened by industry collaborations.

The Carnegie School of Sport is an attractive place for those wanting to work on projects of real-world significance that are co-produced with practitioners, industry experts and policy makers.  We aim to create conditions that ensure all colleagues experience personal growth around meaningful work. To that end, we will support the post holder to develop direction, create energy and deliver success.

We welcome applications from collaboratively minded individuals, who have, or are nearing the completion of, a doctoral qualification, and have an established independent programme of research in a relevant field.

For informal enquiries about this post please contact Dr. James Musgrave, Head of Sport Management: j.musgrave@leedsbeckett.ac.uk.

Closing date: Tuesday 17^th March 2026 (23:59)

For more information and to apply please visit: tinyurl.com/2rkcfuvn

Working here means you’ll have access to a wide range of benefits including our generous pension schemes, excellent holiday entitlements, flexible working, reduced study fees, subsidised fitness facilities and a lot more.

We welcome applications from all individuals and particularly from black and minority ethnic candidates as members of these groups are currently under-represented at this level of post. All appointments will be based on merit.

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