Development Manager, Public Leisure

2 weeks ago


Loughborough Leicestershire, United Kingdom Sport England Full time
Vacancy for Development Manager, Public Leisure

Location: Flexible - homeworking or hybrid office-based (Loughborough or Bisham) with regular travel

Job Summary

We are looking for a Development Manager in our Place Development Team who will focus on Public Leisure. A key element within our 10-year Strategy - Uniting the Movement is our commitment to work through Place, Creating Active Environments and supporting Public Leisure facilities to be more community focused and evolve to an active wellbeing service:

  • Creating Active Environment’s provides places and spaces for people to be more active and build healthier active communities.
  • Developing stronger, happier healthy communities and better places to live, by ensuring our built and natural environments and the connections in between are design or adapted around people, creating the opportunities to increase physical activity levels
  • Places and spaces around us deliver a positive impact on whether, how, when, and where we move. Every space and place that we move through in our daily lives should encourage us to move more. Dedicated sport and leisure spaces should be co-created, well designed and inclusive.
  • Public leisure facilities and services have a vital and unique role to play in our sport and activity ecosystem because of their value to the people who use them most. The public leisure sector also has a central role to play in the delivery of our Uniting the Movement strategy, as it is a core element of each of the five Big Issues we have identified as having the greatest potential for preventing and tackling inequalities in sport and physical activity.
  • Our Future of Public Leisure report identified two medium term goals for the sector (1) to transition from a traditional leisure service to one which is far more focussed on active wellbeing (2) to move to a model that focusses on added value and supporting the delivery of local priorities, and with that enable the delivery of wider government priorities around Levelling Up, net zero and health inequalities
  • To fully understand the role of public leisure centres, Moving Communities Facilities provides a real-time view of local authority facility performance, with benchmarking and filtering functionality, that explores financial performance alongside understanding how effective the service is and for whom, and its impact on local communities.
  • The platform has developed into Moving Communities Place which is a comprehensive data platform that provides a detailed, place-based view of participation in physical activity by measuring direct delivery to demonstrate the scale, impact and value to local communities.

Sport England recognises the positive value of diversity, promotes equality and challenges discrimination. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds, particularly where we are under-represented, currently, this includes disabled people and those from culturally diverse communities.

Role Purpose
  • To encourage and advocate the future of public leisure approach with local authorities and key sector stakeholders to work collaboratively across the sector to support the development of an Active Wellbeing service which is better connected to community need and focused on addressing access and health inequalities through activity.
  • To manage the implementation of the Moving Communities Facilities and Place services aimed at supporting active partnerships, local authorities and partners working in place to gather direct delivery data to evidence impact as part of the wider Place Evaluation and Learning Framework.
Skills & Experience
  • Significant experience working in the public leisure sector, managing relationships, operational contracts, frameworks & capital projects with local authorities, leisure operator’s and national partners.
  • Proven experience in relationship management with third parties, at a senior level, to realise mutually beneficial opportunities.
  • Experience of using insight and data to inform decisions and shape policy or investment.
  • Effective verbal and written communications skills including the ability to adapt communication style to different audiences and present complex messages in a compelling way.
  • Developed networking and influencing skills and a proven ability to influence partner organisations.
  • Previous experience of public leisure contract management, managing consultant/supplier frameworks & working for an organisation/s within the public leisure sector.
  • Experience of advising or delivering both large and small-scale public leisure procurements and contracts.
  • Experience of managing capital projects and facility investments.
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