Jim Jefferies will today watch Bradford in their Premiership basement battle with Derby before being confirmed as the club's new manager 48 hours later.
Jefferies admits there are still "one or two things to be finalised", but following a second interview with chairman Geoffrey Richmond at Valley Parade yesterday - which took six hours - he will become the club's fifth manager in seven years on Monday.
Just 10 days after quitting his job at Hearts, the 50-year-old has quickly been handed the opportunity with Bradford, who are currently bottom of the table.
Jefferies has pipped Stuart Baxter as successor to Chris Hutchings, who was sacked after 137 days in charge during which Bradford won just one of their 12 Premiership matches.
Baxter proved a credible candidate for the post given his success in both Japan and Sweden, where more recently he guided AIK Stockholm to the league title in 1998, followed a year later with the club lifting the Swedish Cup.
But Richmond has opted for Jefferies, who spent five years at Tynecastle in which time he led the club to their first major trophy for 36 years in 1998 with a 2-1 win over Rangers in the Scottish Cup final.
Richmond said: "It was an extremely positive meeting. I am confident that he (Jefferies) will be unveiled as the manager of Bradford City on Monday."
Jefferies then spoke with confidence as he said: "This has come really quickly so you have to jump at it. I have been given an opportunity in the Premier League, and that doesn't come too often.
"If everything goes according to plan then it will be terrific (to manage Bradford), but there are still one or two things to finalise and so we will have to wait until they are sorted out on Monday.
"But it will be a great challenge at a club which has done well over the years and hopefully I can take them that bit further. It was terrific last year when they stayed up and that is their (the club's) aim in the short term."
Jefferies is to be joined at Bradford by Billy Brown, who was his number two at Hearts, but who was sacked by the club on the day Jefferies left "by mutual consent".
