Football Data Analyst

**About us**

Essendon FC - “The Bombers” - are a professional sporting team in the Australian Football League. As home to 5 sporting teams, we run our AFL men’s and women’s programs, VFL women’s and men’s programs, and a wheelchair football team. But we’re more than the game. Not only do we exist to win premierships, we aim to give back to our loyal membership base, and importantly, our community. We understand and take seriously the impact we have on social outcomes and work tirelessly to ensure these are positive, from our partnership with The Long Walk, to our indigenous pathway programs. To do this, we have strong commercial partnerships and innovate with non-traditional ventures, such as our Essendon Education Academy and EFC Investment Fund, so that we can deliver world class events, give back to our fans, run community programs and ultimately, strive toward our next premiership.

**About the role**

This is an exciting time for the Club as we commence a data analytics and technology transformation, including the development of a centralised data warehouse and data pipeline solutions.

As our Football Data Analyst, you will provide insights and services including data preparation, analysis, governance, reporting and visualisations that will meet the current and emerging needs of the Club.

Working closely with key Football personnel to support decision making you will provide insight on player and team performance.

You will be required to:

- Deliver a wide variety of data analysis services across the Football department
- Ongoing maintenance and development of the Club’s Athlete Management System (AMS)
- Support Coaches' decision-making through development and implementation of insightful reports and dashboards on a game-by-game and longitudinal basis
- Communicate outcomes and insights to stakeholders in an engaging and impactful manner
- Develop strong, trusted relationships with coaching staff and key Football department stakeholders
- Own analytics projects from scoping through to delivery, explaining approach, methodology, assumptions and results to stakeholders
- Proactively improve processes around reporting through automation, quality assurance and testing
- Improve data accuracy and completeness by working with data providers (e.g. Champion) and the collection, curation and development of new first-party player and performance data
- Assist in the development of a data warehouse and data pipeline solution which integrates first and third-party data
- Collaborate with other members of the Data, Technology & Insights team to identify and resolve data and reporting issues
- Help to develop and drive a culture of data-driven decision making across the Club
- Execute additional tasks as required in order to meet the Club’s changing priorities

**About you**

You will hold a Bachelor degree in a computer science, statistical or mathematical field and have practical working experience in data analysis. You’ve worked with large complex datasets with relational databases and can demonstrate your experience in producing insights through your ability to visualise data and build dashboards informatively, creatively and concisely utilising tools such as Tableau.

You are comfortable with ambiguity and able to problem solve independently with pace, agility and innovative thinking and your ability to effectively engage with stakeholders at different levels will be key to your success.

You love the idea of immersing yourself in data to drive meaningful insights and create jaw-dropping outcomes. You’ll need creativity to deliver those outcomes in meaningful, digestible forms and visualisations.

Previous experience with data warehouse solutions such as Snowflake and experience in an elite sports environment and knowledge of Australian Rules Football will be advantageous.

**The Perks**
- ** Our work doesn’t always fit the 9 to 5.** Your life doesn’t always fit the hours around it. We offer flexibility with hybrid office / home working arrangements and hours.
- **More annual leave? **Sure EFC People* will be gifted additional leave per year taken to coincide with Footy Department mini breaks or at the discretion of the CEO. EFC People may also choose to purchase up to 10 days per annum additional leave during the year for extra time off*.
- ** Parent friendly - **We put family at the centre of our work. We know they are the centre of yours. We offer paid parental leave to both the primary and secondary carer of a biological or adopted child*.
- Access to **our Wellbeing Partner - Converge **which supports a Healthy Mind, Healthy Body and Healthy Workplace.
- ** Continuous professional development**:

- to compete at our best we have to keep learning. It’s an expectation and a commitment we make to everyone at EFC. All EFC people will have access to the Essendon Leadership Academy which consists of formal learning, coaching and mentoring, to support you in achieving your career