Community Sports Officer

2 weeks ago

Greenwich, United Kingdom GLL Full time

As a Community Sports Officer, you’ll use your passion for sport as well as your people skills to deal with a wide range of stakeholders such as national governing bodies and local sports and community groups with whom you’ll build strong relationships to support your community outreach projects and plans.
You’ll work closely with the Sport Development & Community Sports Manager, General Managers, Partnership Manager and our local partners to get more people more active, more often, specifically in community locations including Community centres, sports clubs and school settings to name but a few.
Knowledge of national governing bodies / sports development structures and external funding, plus membership to relevant professional sports governing bodies is essential. As is your knowledge of safeguarding children and vulnerable adults and First Aid qualification, you’ll also cover coaching sessions when required.
Excellent communication skills will be key as you’ll need to build relationships with a variety of staff and external partners.
**In return, we offer a range of benefits that you’d expect from the UK’s largest leisure provider**:

- Pension schemes
- Ride to work scheme
- Discounted membership at our leisure centres
- The opportunity to join the GLL Society and have a say in how we’re run plus associated social events
- Career pathways
- Ongoing training and development to help you to be the best

The welfare and safety of the children in our care is of the utmost importance to us at GLL. We follow safer recruitment procedures to ensure that our staff are checked and appropriate to work with children and young people. Therefore we’ll require you to complete an enhance DBS check before you will be allowed to start work.

To be shortlisted for the role, internal applicants will need to demonstrate their commitment to GLL by becoming a Society member where eligible.
**About Us**
GLL is the UK’s largest leisure and cultural services provider and one of the first and largest leisure social enterprises. Our aim is to get more people, more active, more of the time whilst making leisure and community facilities accessible and affordable. We partner with local authorities to run leisure centres, swimming pools, libraries, children’s centres, spas, events spaces and world-class sporting venues such as the Copper Box Arena and London Aquatics Centre on the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park - all under our Better brand. As a not-for-profit organisation, we’re different. Passionate about seeing our communities thrive, we invest back into our facilities, projects and people and are an Investors in People Silver Award employer.
GLL is an equal opportunities employer.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Contract

**Salary**: £26,719.00-£27,979.00 per year

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