Sector Careers Focus - Professional Sport and Community Sport

"We need to use our brand and our power….. to change lives"

Tilly Higgs Leicester Tigers Foundation Education Manager

LLR hosts a fantastic range of professional sports clubs from Tigers to Riders and Leicester City FC to the County Cricket Club. All the clubs require support roles that are committed to achieving excellence at the highest possible level. There are many more roles attached to professional clubs than just playing and coaching. Data analysist, medical support and commentary are all part of the wider workforce supporting professional settings.

Community Sport settings use the power of sport to change people's lives. Rolls within community sport range from Wellbeing Officers to those who use sport to address anti-social behaviour, from developing clubs and volunteers to providing opportunities to participate for individuals from diverse communities.

Find out what it is like to work in these incredibly diverse sub-sectors of sport and physical activity:

Available rolls include:

Casual Coaching Roles with Leicester Tigers

Lead Performance Lifestyle Advisor with Leicester City FC Women

Development Officer for Girls Football with the Youth Sport Trust

Find more live local opportunities at: https://www.active-together.org/jobs

CIMSPA, the Chartered Institute for the Management of Sport and Physical Activity, breaks the sector down into the following sub-sectors (the info graphic includes examples of local employing organisations within each sub-sector):

Interested in a specific sub-sector? Then check out the additional films in Section 1 of the web page.

Exercise, Fitness and Leisure Operations

Adventure Sport and Health & Wellbeing

The wider sector – includes national sports organisations based at SportPark Loughborough, as well as inspiration from the Sports Technology Institute.

These films have been created for:

• Individuals new to the world of work, through to people with many years' experience in other sectors.
• Careers advisers, tutors, teachers, employers and employees.
• Parents/carers, supporters and friends of people interested in finding out more.

The films and the wider careers resources can be found on this webpage: https://www.active-together.org/careers

Join us at our next Careers in Sport and Physical Activity Short Update session to find out the very latest information. Book your place now: https://www.active-together.org/events/2023/09/careers-in-sport-and-physical-activity-llr-short-update-session-face-to-face

If you would like to discuss how you can utilise these resources further, please contact Luke Green (Workforce Development Officer) at l.green@active-together.org