Development Officer - Sport
If you have experience of managing programmes or supporting multiple, long term projects these are exciting opportunities to use your expertise to make a difference to the development of young people in the UK. The Youth Sport Trust is all about changing young people’s lives through sport. We are skilled in the use of physical education, physical activity and sport to unlock all young people’s potential. Now you can join the team and help develop our work by supporting our approach to empowering young people as leaders using play and sport.
- Location
- Hybrid – minimum of 2 days per week in the Loughborough Office, LE11 3QF
- Contact Telephone
- 01509 462900
- Contact Email
- jobs@youthsporttrust.org
- Organisation
- Youth Sport Trust
- Salary
- £28,000 per annum
- Hours
- Full Time
- Contract
- Contract/Temporary
- Organisation
- Youth Sport Trust
- Placed On
- Wed 24th April, 2024
- Closes
- 12:00am - Sun 12th May, 2024
About Development Officer - Sport
In this role as Development Officer Sport, you will use insight to help design and implement positive youth sport experiences that enable young people to achieve their personal best at any level of performance. You will support National Governing Bodies of Sport to ensure inequalities that exist for children to access sport are challenged. You will develop and deliver high quality learning environments that are cutting edge, unique and inspire participants. You will also get the opportunity to work with key partners, including corporates, National Governing Bodies of Sport, professional sports teams, schools and others. Important will be the ability to build links internally and with youth forums to ensure our sporting solutions remain relevant and continue to meet the needs of young people.
You will need to be experienced at managing programmes or supporting multiple, long term and complex projects you will have worked within the school landscape and/or the sport system where you will have gained expertise in co-ordinating work with external partners. You will possess excellent communication, planning and interpersonal skills too. Comfortable managing budgets, you will be used to producing stakeholder reporting and co-ordinating work with external partners. You will also be effective at achieving targets and responding quickly and flexibly to changing needs and tight deadlines. Knowledge of management information systems would be an advantage in this role.
As a member of the team, we guarantee you will feel very much part of our mission and will experience fun, challenge and fulfilment in your role. Our values underpin everything we do, and we pride ourselves on a work culture which fosters innovation, creativity and personal passion. Benefits include generous annual leave entitlement, health cash plan, employee assistance programme and volunteering days. In 2022 we were ranked one of the best charities and mid-sized companies to work for in the UK.
If you have the skills to support our work and share our passionate belief in the benefits of sport for young people, we would like to hear from you. To apply please click the apply now button and complete an online application.
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