Community Sports Officer - Islington, United Kingdom - GLL

GLL

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Islington, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Community Sport Officer (Part Time, 16 hours per week)

Based:

Islington Partnership Salary:

£27, Pro rata)
GLL is looking for a part time Community Sports Officer based in the Islington Partnership. Community is at the heart of everything we do.

Here at GLL, one of our key aims is to make sport and fitness available and accessible to the communities in which we operate.

We are investing in our facilities and need a passionate Community Sports Officer to help us develop community participation in sport.

The main focus of this role will be managing the Islington team at the London Youth Games. The London Youth Games is an annual multi-sport event held in London, England.

The London Youth Games offer competitive opportunities for young people aged 7 to 18 across approximately 30 sports every year.

As Community Sports Officer you will work with local schools, clubs and community organisations to select and mange the squads for a variety of different sports.

This is an interesting role that will use your passion for sport as well as your people skills. The main objective of the role is to interact with the community to encourage and increase participation in sport.

You will be dealing with a range of people so you will need to have excellent communication skills to be able to relate to each type of person.

You will work closely with the Community Sport Manager, General Managers, Partnership Managers and the local authority to assess the sports that you will be promoting as well as your methods and successes.

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

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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._
GLL is an equal opportunities employer._