As we kick off 2025, we're excited to share the news that we're expanding our team and hiring for THREE positions! The positions include:
- Senior Sales Executive
- Account Executive
- Sports Journalist / Content Creator
Learn more about us and read about each job opportunity below! If you are interested in any of the positions, please send a cover letter and cv to [email protected]. For the Sports Journalist / Content Creator role - any examples of your creations (written, graphics, audio or video) or a portfolio would be a bonus.
About Us:
Her Sport is the leading organisation in Ireland in changing the game for girls and women in sport, and one of the largest in Europe. Her Sport is the voice for girls and women in sport, making tangible impact through key initiatives of visibility and education. A creative, innovative and disruptive organisation, at the forefront of a rapidly growing and exciting market. Her Sport has experienced exponential growth over the past 5 years, with 2025 set to be a pivotal year of growth and development.
Company Vision: Equal opportunity in sport regardless of gender.
Company Mission: To use sport to empower, educate and inspire, so girls and women can achieve their full potential.
Our Values:
Founder Mindset
We value individuals who think like business founders—proactively identifying challenges, taking initiative, and approaching problems with creative thinking and solutions. Adaptability and innovation is what sets us apart.
High Performance
We are committed to excellence in everything we do. Like elite athletes, we set ambitious goals, strive for personal bests, and push boundaries to deliver top-class results. Continuous improvement is the essence of who we are.
Impact
Motivated to create cultural change for girls and women (in sport). Every play we make is focused on changing the game for women - in sport, in leadership, in life. Our legacy is about sparking a movement that transforms lives, breaks barriers, and shapes the future of women for generations to come.
Teamwork
No one wins alone. Just like in sport, collaboration and communication are essential to our success. We value the power of working together, leveraging diverse skills and perspectives to achieve common goals while fostering a supportive and inclusive environment.
Trust
Trust is the foundation of our relationships—both within our team and with our partners. We value honesty, reliability, and integrity, ensuring transparency and mutual respect in all interactions.
SENIOR SALES MANAGER
The Senior Sales Manager will lead our sponsorship and partnerships efforts, driving revenue growth and fostering meaningful relationships with brands aligned with our mission. They will collaborate with the leadership team and have the opportunity to develop and grow the sales and sponsorship team. This is a leadership role that will help shape the future of women’s sports in Ireland through strategic commercial partnerships.
Key Responsibilities:
- Sales Strategy & Activation Planning
- Create and execute a comprehensive sales strategy to achieve quarterly and annual revenue targets.
- Develop and refine sales materials, including media kits, presentations, and proposals.
- Collaborate with the leadership team to align sponsorship opportunities with overall business goals.
- Target areas include sponsorships, events and activations, media buying
- Sponsorship Acquisition & Management
- Identify, negotiate, and secure sponsorship deals with brands aligned with Her Sport’s mission.
- Develop tailored sponsorship packages that meet client objectives while supporting Her Sport’s revenue targets.
- Develop measurement framework across sales channels (sponsorships, events and activations, media buying).
- Excellent project management skills, including budget management and financial administration.
- Maintain and grow long-term relationships with key sponsors and partners. Clients include Energia, AIB, Lidl, Life Style Sports and other leading national and global brands.
- Campaign Activation & Reporting
- Work closely with the content and marketing teams to ensure seamless activation of sponsorship campaigns.
- Track campaign performance and deliver insights and ROI reports to sponsors post-activation.
- Market Development
- Stay ahead of industry trends to identify new revenue opportunities.
- Represent Her Sport at networking events, conferences, and meetings to build brand awareness and generate leads.
Background and Experience Required:
- Proven experience in sales and/or sponsorship, ideally within media, sports, or event industries. A strategic thinker with the ability to identify opportunities and execute effectively.
- Track record of achieving and exceeding revenue targets.
- Exceptional communication and presentation skills with the ability to influence decision-makers and negotiate win-win partnerships.
- Strong organizational and project management skills, including the ability to manage multiple partnerships simultaneously.
- Knowledge of the Irish sponsorship market and strong working relationships with agencies & PR companies. Knowledge of the sports and media sponsorship market is an advantage.
- Passionate about sports and/or gender equality and aligned with Her Sport’s vision.
- Experience in impact driven sponsorships is a bonus.
If you are interested in the positions, please send a cover letter and cv to [email protected].
ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop and maintain strong relationships with advertising partners, and through research, identify brands and agencies who have interest in advertising around women’s sports as well as reaching the Her Sport audience demographic.
- Collaborate with key team members to build brand and sales decks, combining a compelling story and data into sales marketing materials.
- Project management of all client campaigns including planning and monitoring of all deliverables and outputs. This includes developing and monitoring timelines, liaising with relevant team members, reviewing content deliverables (written, graphic and video) and ensuring exceptional quality, reporting on all campaigns for internal and client review.
- Assist with revenue tracking and forecasting - monitoring the expenditure of all client projects.
- Build a strong working relationship with our internal team. This will be key to building and implementing quality content led briefs and campaigns, and client / campaign status updates across organisation.
- Maintain a high level of knowledge of digital and events, with a particular lens on sport and women, keeping up to speed on emerging trends or changes to the landscape.
- Track and analyze data across all platforms on a regular basis.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent required
- Strong project management skills with proven ability to achieve and exceed quotas and goals
- Exceptional understanding of the social media landscape in terms of creators, influencers, content trends and emerging opportunities.
- Experience across a range of social media platforms including Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, TikTok, YouTube, Twitter.
- The ability to work individually and collaborate within a team environment to achieve set goals
- Exceptional verbal and written communications skills
- Experience in content creation a bonus (i.e. graphics, caption writing, video editing, email marketing and other)
- Versatility, and the ability to adapt and engage in a dynamic and supportive team environment.
- And it goes without saying - strong interest in women’s sports is essential!
If you are interested in the positions, please send a cover letter and cv to [email protected].
SPORTS JOURNALIST / CONTENT CREATOR
We are looking for a Digital Sports Journalist / Content Creator to join our team on a full-time basis. The successful candidate will form part of a growing Digital sports team as well as being provided possible opportunities for on camera appearances with Ireland’s no.1 sports publisher for Women’s Sports.
Key Responsibilities:
- Work with our team to get the most eyes and ears on the quality content that Her Sport produces on a daily basis.
- Create vibrant digital sports content which our community love and want to return to.
- Delivering original news and reacting to breaking stories.
- Supplying the demand for good and extensive coverage around big games and tournaments with an understanding of the fast pace of the industry.
- On the field at live events, interviewing fans and press conferences to find unique angles to report the best material in real time.
- Bringing new and exciting ideas to be executed across platform.
- Work across written, graphic and video content production in tandem with the Her Sport Content Team.
- Work alongside the Her Sport Content Team to meet KPI’s for platform growth and content engagement.
- Identify successful content, emerging trends and working on content improvement consistently.
Requirements
- Deep understanding of women's sports landscape in Ireland, as well as some knowledge of global sport.
- Strong ability for storytelling with the ability to connect with an audience and interest recurring viewers.
- Ability in written, audio and/or visual storytelling. Competent using Canva or similar. Video editing for social media a bonus
- Understanding of the social media landscape in terms of creators, influencers, content trends and emerging opportunities.
- Experience across a range of social media platforms including Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, TikTok, YouTube, Twitter.
- Understanding of journalistic principles and practices.
- Demonstrate an ability to work in a fast-paced environment while maintaining high quality written, video and audio content.
- The ability to work to deadline - quickly edit, editorialise and cross-publish all Her Sport video and audio to our digital audience. Great attention to detail.
- Understanding of social media analytics across each platform. KPI-driven, with an understanding that numbers & performance is the priority.
- With the nature of this role, you must be available and willing to work hours related to sporting events (weekends and evenings as required).
- Versatility, and the ability to adapt and engage in a dynamic and supportive team environment.
- And it goes without saying - strong interest in women’s sports is essential!
If you are interested in the positions, please send a cover letter and cv to [email protected]. For the Sports Journalist / Content Creator role - any examples of your creations (written, graphics, audio or video) or a portfolio would be a bonus.
Interested in the role, but don’t meet every qualification? We encourage you to still apply! At Her Sport, we believe there is much more to a candidate than what is written on paper, and we value character as much as experience.
