Football Innovation

**These are your key tasks**:

- Ownership, management, and development of the FIFA Innovation Programme
- Establish a strategy and mechanism for managing requests, identifying promising new avenues and assessing new technology innovations across the Professional Football Division
- Direct the decision-making process that results in the transformation of ideas into concrete innovative initiatives & design validation studies for empirical assessment of merit
- Ensure impactful outcome, documentation, and communication of Innovation Projects
- Support the FIFA Research Team in structuring, designing, and managing multidiscipline research projects
- Maximize the outcome of research projects through the publications of studies and the assimilation of findings through innovative means
- Promote and represent the technology innovation strategy at selected conferences and events
- Assist the Head of Department and Research team with the overall innovation management process for assessing, deploying, and standardizing technology globally

These tasks are a good start. Time will change. Take it and shape it.

**Your Profile**:
For all roles, we seek talented people with an entrepreneurial spirit and a global mindset.

The specific competencies we require for this position are:

- Master degree or similar higher education in technical studies, e.g. engineering or business studies with a strong focus on research methods
- Previous experience working with innovation in football or another sector with transferable knowledge
- Experience in business development and launch of new projects
- Fluency in English and another FIFA language (French or Spanish) is an asset
- Problem-solving attitude, cultivates an innovation mind set, open to try new approaches
- Strategic thinker who understands the bigger picture and long-term objectives
- Team player, willing and able to learn from others as well capable of sharing knowledge and experience
- Sound presentation skills in front of large audiences
- Understanding of technological landscape in sport and key drivers for FIFA Technology Innovation
- Out-of-the box thinking
- Willingness to travel occasionally
- Readiness for stand-by duties