Tim Devine has been named new Everton academy director.
He had been fulfilling the role in an interim capacity following the departure of Alan Irvine for West Brom in June.
Devine told evertonfc.com: "The past work that has gone on at this football club's Academy is fantastic. If you go back many years to previous Academy managers, Ray Hall in particular, the stability and the continuity and the success of the Academy has made my job so much easier.
"Latterly, Alan Irvine did a fantastic job, managing to achieve Category One status for the Academy and, really, I am just trying to maintain the excellent standards that have gone before me.
"It has been really important for us to work with the manager on a playing philosophy. That playing philosophy centres on the kind of work that he does at first-team level in terms of dominating possession of the ball and dictating the tempo of games.
"It's about creative, attacking football when we are in possession and encouraging players to have a defensive intensity when we don't have the ball."
