Richard Luscombe Position: South Devon Regional Participation Manager
Location: Plymouth
Offices: Home Park, Outland Road, Plymouth PL2 3DQ
Manadon Sports Hub, 121 St Peter’s Road, PL5 3JG
Salary: £30,000 per annum
Contract: Permanent position, full time
Hours: 40 hours per week
Reports to: Head of Participation
Argyle Community Trust is looking to recruit a South Devon Regional Manager with responsibility to strategically lead and manage the participation provision across the Plymouth & South Devon Region. As a registered charity, the Community Trust works closely with Plymouth Argyle Football Club and with many people across several sectors where sport has proven to be the ideal tool for creating lasting engagement with individuals.
The focus will be to oversee the Plymouth & South Devon participation teams and to manage and deliver sport-specific participation activities based within local schools, sports facilities and other community based settings such as at Plymouth Argyle Football Club. The role will cover a variety of targeted session groups such as schools, nurseries and childcare settings, female-specific sessions, match day programmes & disability provisions to support young people’s experiences of engaging in physical activity whilst also impacting young people’s personal development and understanding of sport.
The post holder will be accountable for linking the work of a designated region into the Trust strategy to maximise delivery to all sectors in the local community. The post holder will manage a number of Educational and Sports Development programmes and will work with multiple partners such as The Premier League Charitable Trust, EFL Trust, Active Devon, Devon FA, local councils and local school MATs. The successful candidate will be passionate about sports development and improving the personal development of those who face barriers to playing sports, or accessing education whilst developing relationships and partnerships with other local organisations to enhance ACT’s offer to the local communities we support.
A key function of this role is to establish and develop sustainable opportunities for participation for people who encounter barriers to accessing mainstream provisions within their local area.
The role will involve developing staff members working within the department, by planning and improving the ongoing continual professional development of staff and challenging them to improve and develop the current offer. The successful candidate will be expected to hold a number of sports coaching qualifications and/or sports development/ sports coaching specific degree and be computer literate. In addition to this, the staff member must be able to undertake key administrative duties such as mid-year and end-of-year reporting alongside other administrative duties that are associated with the role.
How to Apply
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://hr.breathehr.com/v/plymouth-and-south-devon-regional-38647. You will be given the opportunity to upload a covering letter and CV should you wish to do so however, for safer recruitment purposes, we do not accept application by CV only.
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/.
Closing date for applications – Midday 3rd January 25
Shortlisting – 3rd January 25
Interview Date – 14th January 25
