An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Analyst to join the Club’s B Team. Reporting to the Head of Analysis and Technical Operations, the role will focus on providing the analysis support for the Celtic FC B team.

This will involve working with the B Team staff to service all their analysis & coaching needs. This role will include; Pre/Post-match opposition analysis, set-play analysis, individual technical analysis as well as the filming of all training sessions and databasing of training footage.

It is essential to have a sufficient mix of academic, football and specific training experience and knowledge to carry out this role.

Experience

• Essential
  
  
  
  • Ideally, the person would have previous experience of working within professional football in order to understand the unique nature of football culture and how best to apply the principals and fulfil the role of a football analyst
  
  
  • A high level of tactical football knowledge, with an ability to contextualise this knowledge and produce player facing material
  
  
  • Comfortable handling data and understanding how to integrate this into a feedback process with players & coaches
  
  
  
  


• Desirable
  
  
  
  • Good video-editing skills
  
  
  • Highly competent in software such as Hudl Sportscode / Studio / Wyscout & StatsBomb
  
  
  
  

Qualifications and affiliations:

• Essential
  
  
  
  • Minimum undergraduate degree relating to the field of performance analysis, sports & exercise science or data science
  
  
  • Football coaching qualifications preferable (SFA B license) and any specific performance analysis qualifications are also applicable (ISPAS accreditation, for example)
  
  
  
  

Other:

• Essential
  
  
  
  • Able to be flexible with their working week to cope with demands of evening and weekend work