Community Sports Officer

24 hours ago


Belfast, United Kingdom GLL Full time

**Community Sports Officer**

**Based**:
**The Girdwood Community Hub (operating citywide), Belfast**

**Salary: £24,606.28 per annum**

GLL, the UK’s largest provider of public leisure and cultural services is looking for a Community Sports Officer to help us increase participation in sport across our centres in Belfast - in turn, building better social cohesion and improving health and wellbeing.

Community is at the heart of everything we do and here at GLL, one of our key aims is to make sport and fitness available and accessible to the communities in which we operate. In partnership with the Belfast City Council we aim to deliver accessible leisure facilities, excellent customer care and affordable memberships to enable local people to enjoy active, healthy lifestyles. That’s where you come in. You’ll be doing everything from working with local sports clubs, youth organisations and schools to get more young people into sport and supporting community sport development plans.

In return, you will get:

- A full time permanent position

- Change accordingly Industry leading rates of pay
- Discounted membership at our leisure centres
- Discounts across thousands of retailers (GLL Extras)
- A fantastic pension scheme
- 25% off Red Letter Days
- 25% off Buy A Gift
- 20% off GLL spa experience treatments and associated products.
- Ride to work scheme
- Free eye tests and discounted glasses
- The opportunity to join the GLL Society and have a say in how we are run plus associated social events
- Exclusive discounts on our villas in Portugal
- Exclusive discounts on our Ski chalets in Bulgaria
- Health assurance
- Career pathways, professional development are just the start.

To ensure you stay at the top of your game, we provide training with practical and theory elements too.

About GLL:
As the UK’s largest leisure operator and charitable social enterprise, we offer a range of careers for everyone in our local communities. We manage over 400 facilities across England, Wales and Northern Ireland, including public sport and leisure centres, elite sporting venues, libraries and children’s centres.

Our people are from the communities we serve and help us make real changes in their local area.

To make sure we’re having a positive impact on our people, we also offer some flexible and part-time working options so you can make sure your new job works for you.

So whether your ambitions lie in sport and leisure, events & catering, health & beauty, corporate support or working with children, you’ll be able to find your ideal new job at GLL.

Passionate about seeing our communities thrive, we invest back into our facilities, projects and people and are Investors in People Silver Award employer. We are an inclusive employer.



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