Reports to Secretary General

Job Description

• Hold, support & assist State FAs in Development of Football.
• Collect ,Segregate and Analyse data from  MAs of Football activities across India.
• Liaise with other departments (Leagues, Grassroots, Coach Education, Referees, Competitions ) at AIFF to monitor development activities in the States.
• Create a customized developmental plan with the AIFF Technical Director for various State Associations based on their performance and activities over the  years.
• Develop and Maintain good professional relationship with State MA officials on behalf of AIFF.
• Financial Management of all concerned activities under State Development programme.
• Create a good communication chain between AIFF and State MAs to carry out all developmental operations.
• Provide feedback on development of all State Associations.
• Report to the Secretary General at AIFF.
• REFEREES:
• Proposing to the States Associations to create a structure for referees organization and delegate a leader
• Organizing courses for referees at the State Association’s (SA) level
• Developing a structural number of referees at the SA to be able to cover the leagues and all the other competitions for men and women’s football.
• Increasing the number of highly educated and licensed referees.

COACH EDUCATION

• Helping the MA to plan an yearly coaching education plan.
• The need to increase the number of women’s coaching staff-GK/Physical/Football Performance/Head Coach.
• Financial transparency when organize those kind of courses, and reducing the huge gap of the total cost for the participants between different states.
• Coordinate with the Coaching Education program of AIFF to implement a realistic number of instructors for every MA.

GRASSROOTS

• Partnership/collaboration with local stakeholders/State Governments and corporate.

LEAGUE AND YOUTH COMPETITIONS

• Helping the MAs to implement a sample of sponsoring program in order to obtain funds for the league/competitions
• To analyse the reality of every each state and create a plan at the short/middle/log term to increase the numbers of games played at different ages.
• The implementations of a digital data of the leagues organized by every each MA.
• Designing a five year plan for leagues development at MAs level.

Candidate’s Profile :

• Age below 50 years.
• Grauate/PG in any stream with Diploma in Sports Management preferred.
• Relevant experience of 3-5 years preferably in Football industry and start ups.
• Good written & verbal communication skills.
• Should be able to develop basic working relationship with stake holders.Basic Working legal knowledge of Societies Act
• Preparation budgets for stake holders for development projects.

• Proven leadership capacity and good relationship with subordinates.
• Excellent communication - written and oral – skills.
• Advanced Level of knowledge in Microsoft Office platforms such as Excel, Word and Powerpoint.

Interested candidates should mail their CV along with expected remuneration to hr@the-aiff.com with the subject as "Application for the Post of “Director State Development ”. Last date of Application is 23^rd December 2022.

AIFF reserves the right to cancel/reject the vacancy or applications without assigning any reason. The Candidate should be available for immediate joining.