Active Essex Intern Essex
Job description
Active Essex Intern
Fixed Term, Full Time
Up to £22,361 per annum
Location: Essex
Working Style: Anywhere worker
Closing Date: 2nd July 2023
About Us:
Are you a looking to become a crucial part of a friendly, welcoming and high achieving team? Active Essex Intern could be the opportunity you are looking for!
Active Essex’s work is focused on the delivery of our “Fit for the Future” strategy. As the strategic lead for the sport and physical activity sector we play an important role in the sector, working across our system, with a place-based focus ensuring everyone enjoys the benefits of an active lifestyle.
Public Health Accelerator Bid Programme (PHAB Programme) will fund health improvement and healthcare public health projects in new and innovative ways. The new fund will focus on people and communities in Essex with the worst health outcomes.
In Essex the holiday activity and food programme is called the Essex ActivAte Programme. The Department for Education has now extended its Holiday Activity Fund through to 2025 and every local authority in the country will provide holiday activity clubs to young people who are eligible for benefits based free school meals for 6 weeks over the Easter, summer and Christmas school holidays 2021.
Watch these videos to find out more about Active Essex Projects:
Thurrock Community Skate Jam
Special School Games 2022
Active with Parkinson’s
Active Essex are looking for 3 Interns for the following roles:
1. x1 Active Essex Intern – Active Essex (across the business)
2. x1 Active Essex Intern – Holiday and Food (HAF) programme
3. x1 Active Essex Intern – Public Health Accelerator Bids (PHAB)
Benefits:
- Healthy work life balance; flexible and hybrid working options
- Wide range of learning and development opportunities
- IT equipment and home-working equipment provided
- 26 days annual leave + bank holidays + option to purchase extra
- Generous Local Government Salary related pension scheme
- Access to hundreds of discounts and benefits through Essex Rewards
- Access to our Health & Wellbeing Platform with Lifeworks
- Two paid days for individual volunteering and Two paid days for team volunteering each year
- Disability Confident Leader; we’re committed to interview all disabled applicants who choose to apply under our Job Interview Scheme if they meet the minimum requirements of the job.
- Plus, many more exciting benefits coming soon!
For more information about the wide variety of benefits please visit our Pay and Reward page.
What our previous Interns say:
“The Active Essex internship allowed me a great pathway into the sport and physical activity sector. Being able to support the team at events and with projects also helped me learn more about the ways in which Active Essex supports the community. I also had an interest in marketing, which Active Essex gave me great exposure to, allowing me to progress into the role I am in now within the organisation. Active Essex also has a good team culture in a friendly and welcoming team environment.”
“I thoroughly enjoyed my 12-month internship at Active Essex. The proactive, dynamic, and welcoming working environment allowed me to strengthen pre-existing skills and provided me with constant opportunities to establish new skills too. The Active Essex team guided me throughout the internship giving me the confidence to be a leader and work independently. The variety of projects at the organisation meant I was always trying out something new and growing my knowledge of the sector. Working at Active Essex made me feel like I was making a real difference to people’s lives which was incredibly rewarding.“
The Role:
Within the Active Essex Intern role you will support the Active Essex team across a range of projects providing, administration, finance, project management and event support to tackle physical inactivity across deprived areas of Essex.
Flexibility within the role is key, with the post holder gaining experience of working within a fast-paced health and wellbeing environment. Contributing to delivering a robust project infrastructure, underpinned by reporting and administration processes, to produce work within timelines, the post holder will gain a detailed knowledge of the work of the Active Essex business.
Delivering across the breath of the operation of the Active Essex programme, the role will include supporting communications, marketing, evaluation, and impact workstreams and tasks, along with working supporting overall organisation, administration, recording of meetings and organising programme events.
A key task, working with a project group, with be providing day to day support in the operations and administration.
About You:
- Willingness and aptitude to develop proficiency in the relevant field.
- IT literacy and familiarity with Microsoft Office applications.
- Written communication and interpersonal skills.
- Keen to engage with others and learn from them.
Essential Requirements for the role:
- Ideally educated to RQF level 6 (Bachelor’s degree) or equivalent by experience or be studying towards this and completing your studies this academic year, but applicants educated to A level or equivalent by extensive experience will be considered.
- Be available for Assessment Centre w/c 31st July 2023.
- Be available to commence work in September 2023.
What will you be doing?
- Undertake any jointly agreed beneficial in-house training.
- Undertaking any suitable tasks (dependent on the nature of the service), supervised by an ECC employee who has responsibility for their delivery, in order to observe and support ECC projects.
- Contributing to the work of the team in order to increase skills, knowledge and experience.
- Responsible for proactively keeping up to date with thinking in the service / profession e.g. attending meetings, reading appropriate publications or researching websites.
- Responsible for identifying and discussing learning needs with their mentor/supervisor, and participating in regular reviews.
- Specific individual and shared targets and objectives are defined annually within the performance management framework.
Why Essex?
Essex County Council has a location to be proud of. Our 1,300 square miles stretch from Constable Country to the Thames Estuary, from the dynamic M11 corridor to the traditional seaside resorts of Clacton and Walton. England’s oldest town, Colchester, and two of its newest – Basildon and Harlow – are right here. Along with the City of Chelmsford, the county town, they form our major population centres. It means real choice and makes Essex the ideal place for your career. Read more about us here.
Essex County Council is proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. We’re committed to interview all disabled applicants who choose to apply under our Job Interview Scheme if they meet the minimum requirements of the job. Please speak to our Recruiters if you require any reasonable adjustments during the process.
We’re also committed to interview all veterans and care leavers, who meet the minimum requirements of the role for which they are applying.
To read more about us please visit:
Economy, Investment and Public Health: Economy, Investment and Public Health - Working for Essex
Entry to Work: https://www.workingforessex.com/working-here/entry-to-work
How to apply:
Seize the day! Discover your future as a Active Essex Intern by applying NOW!
- To be considered for this opportunity you must complete the pre-screening questions as part of your application. Applications that are received without this may be rejected.
- Please ensure your CV includes details of how you meet the essential requirements for the role including your Education Level, as we may not be able to consider your application if these details aren’t readily available.
As part of employment with Essex County Council (ECC) should your role require a DBS check you will be required to register with the DBS update service. The DBS update service ensures all registered DBS certificates are kept up to date and allows authorised parties to view the status of your certificate. This is an annual subscription, and you will be responsible for ensuring this is maintained. For further information on the DBS update service please go to https://www.gov.uk/dbs-update-service
Essex County Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all employees and volunteers to share this commitment.
Additional Information:
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