Vacancy – Active Through Football Project Lead – Plymouth

Organisation: Argyle Community Trust
Position: Active Through Football Project Lead
Location: Plymouth and Devon
Offices: Home Park, Outland Road , Plymouth PL2 3DQ
Manadon Sports Hub, 121 St Peter’s Road, PL5 3JG
Salary: £24,500 per annum
Contract: Full Time, Permanent
Hours: 40 hours per week
Reports to: Health and Wellbeing Manager

Benefits and Opportunities

We aim to ensure we look after our staff welfare and provide fair opportunities across the charity. Argyle Community Trust offers incentives & progression based on key performance indicators, appraisals and added value to the Trust.

Benefits
• Access to auto-enrolment pension scheme
• Relevant qualifications and training
• Ticket incentives for staff
• An opportunity to buy back on holidays
• Free access to courses for your children (immediate family) across Argyle Community Trust provisions
• Club Kit

Other Benefits
• Holiday allowance based on service, after 5 years of service your holiday entitlement will increase by 1 day each year, enabling you to increase your holiday allowance by up to 4 days
• Private healthcare after two years of service, not contractual but based on how the charity performs.

Role Dependent Benefits

The Trust will also consider individual requirements needed to complete a role including:
• Work mobile phone with some allowance for personal usage
• Use of company vehicle for work purposes only
• Car Allowance

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Closing date for applications: Sunday 20th August 5pm
Start Date: October 2023 – (Negotiable)

The Role

At Argyle Community Trust we are proud of our current health and well-being programmes and the benefits that these are bringing to individuals in our local communities. We are now looking for a passionate and experienced project leader to work with our Health and Wellbeing team to lead and develop this expanding area of our work. The post holder will be responsible for the overall delivery and operation of the Active Through Football project and its team of local delivery providers. The candidate must have good, in-depth knowledge of health, wellbeing, and behaviour change processes. Experience of planning and delivering health, wellbeing, and exercise interventions in a variety of community settings for adults is essential. Ideally, the candidate will have good insight into football development and a current understanding of sport for development.

We would also expect the candidate to have experience in leading a team of delivery staff and maintaining local and national stakeholder relationships. An awareness of how Active Through Football is aligned to wider sport/community development and public health objectives is also expected. The successful candidate should also have experience of, be innovative in how to achieve targets, raise funds and be used to delivering community projects against performance KPIs. A key element for the post is community engagement and therefore, the post holder must be able to reach out and develop relationships within local communities to ensure we engage with those currently not engaged in sport provisions within their local areas as well as developing a culture of positive opportunities to help those that are inactive.

The candidate must also have knowledge regarding barriers to participation and wider societal issues that prevent people from engaging in sport. The project will require the post holder to support hard-to-reach community members and be able to inspire them to re-engage with sport and physical exercise, as well as wider health and lifestyle workshops.

Primary Objectives of the Role
• Lead Argyle Community Trust’s Active Through Football project overseeing the delivery of an exemplary provision, setting the tone and insisting upon high standards from all staff and delivery partners.
• Monitor and Evaluate the Active Through Football project evidencing the reach and impact of the programmes, ensuring all KPIs, targets and outcomes for projects are completed.
• Develop and maintain relationships with local people and communities to gather insight regarding project performance and wider community issues identifying opportunities to improve the Trust’s wider behaviour change offering across Devon and Cornwall.
• Promote Health & Safety and Safeguarding procedures in your designated sessions and liaise with Designated Safeguarding Officer when appropriate, ensuring risk assessments are created, understood and observed across the wider project team.

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

Argyle Community Trust is an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation, or age.

Safeguarding

Argyle Community Trust is committed to safeguarding, protecting the welfare of all participants on our programmes and promoting robust policies to ensure that our staff and volunteers adhere to safe practices. The successful candidate will be subject to undertaking enhanced DBS checks prior to employment.

Application

If you can meet the specifications and would like to become part of the Argyle Community Trust team, please complete our online application form https://forms.gle/Lr5x7kHHEndy7jAL6.

In your covering letter you should draw on relevant aspects of your experience, including paid employment and voluntary work or training to demonstrate how your skills, experience and personal qualities match the requirements of this job specification.

If you would like further information or wish to discuss the post contact Actrecruitment@pafc.co.uk
For more information about the work of Argyle Community Trust and our strategic aims visit https://argylecommunitytrust.co.uk/about-us/.

Download Active Through Football Project Lead Job Description.