The Role:
This is an important role, responsible for the creation and improvement of community sport and physical activity opportunities across the borough, especially in our award winning green spaces – engaging residents about activity opportunities that excite them, creating improved places that people want to be active to enhance their health and quality of life.
Key priorities include: Contract management of our tennis coaching contracts, stakeholder engagement and delivery of park outdoor gym improvements, sport club engagement and support, work with providers and partners on projects to deliver innovative outdoor community sports and physical activities with measurable health outcomes – procuring, commissioning, reviewing, monitoring and evaluating to develop services. The role will require significant energy and enthusiasm; you will have the drive to ensure that our service remains dynamic, impactful and provides outstanding customer service.
About Southwark:
We are the largest local authority social landlord in London, managing 55,000 homes lived in by 40% of Southwark’s residents. We are home to over 18,300 businesses including iconic London venues and social enterprises and we have a young, diverse and growing population.
At Southwark we are committed to making our borough just and fair and are taking positive action to tackle inequalities. Our residents and communities are our greatest asset and the passion we have for Southwark is shared by millions of Londoners who enjoy our outstanding cultural offer, use our hospitals and attend our universities. Our refreshed borough plan and focus on Southwark Stands Together, (which is our work with Southwark’s communities and the council’s staff to tackle racism, injustice and inequality) underpins all that we do
About You:
Do you share Southwark’s passion for providing top quality physical activity spaces and creating opportunities that are informed by the community to ensure they are attractive and inclusive to all? Have you got the skills and experience to help shape services so they make a meaningful impact on the quality of our residents’ lives? Are you excited about the potential that these services offer, and are you driven to work together as a team to build on great practice to deliver something outstanding?
We are looking for an energetic and influential individual to join the team working across the borough to help us shape our services for future generations. We want someone who has the drive to build on what’s good and to have a clear focus on how to make it even better.
We are looking for someone who has excellent sport and community development knowledge and importantly, you’ll need in-depth knowledge and practical experience of project delivery and service improvement in a customer-focused environment.
Ideally, you will be qualified to degree level or equivalent, with direct experience of most of the following areas – sport for community development, project management, customer engagement, external funding applications, and how all of these contribute to tackling health inequalities.
Additional salary details
The post holder will be required to work outside of normal working hours to meet the needs of the service
The post holder may be required to work in other operational areas to meet the needs of the service.
Recruitment timetable
Closing Date: Sunday, 21 January 2024 at 23:59
Interview Date: 05 and 08 February 2024
We are an organisation who is passionate about our people and understands that richness of diversity is a requirement to provide the best possible services to our communities. This is demonstrated through our council-wide ambitious commitment to tackle racial inequality in our communities and workforce through our Southwark Stands Together initiative. We particularly welcome applications from members of the black, Asian and ethnic minority communities to increase representation at senior management level in the Council.
Guaranteed Interview Scheme
As part of our commitment to inclusion, we offer guaranteed interviews for specific groups of people. To qualify, you'll need to meet the minimum requirements for the role, and identify with one of the below criteria:
- Members of the Armed Forces and veterans
- Are currently in care, or have previously been in care
- If you consider yourself to be disabled or if you have a long-term health condition
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