Area Sports Development Manager Remote
Job description
We are Places Leisure, part of the Places for People Group; we are placemakers; our work impacts on the lives of people across the U.K. – providing homes to live in, communities to retire to, spaces to stay active, supported homes for independent living, and student accommodation. Our places work when they work for everyone.
How do we do all this? By surrounding ourselves with supportive people, solution-oriented people and collaborative people. Our people live and breathe our SPIRIT values; we are the place for spirited people.
So, we want you to join us and the 12,000 other colleagues on our journey; colleagues who have helped us create places, maintain 209,000 homes, manage £4.5 billion of assets, deliver £87.9m social value and teach 80,000 children to swim each week.
More about your role
As Area Sport Development manager for our Midlands & North area you will have overall responsible for our centres across this region. You will Engage with the sports teams, ensuring you support all staff in the area who manage and deliver our activities.
You will be working across multiple sites, ensuring their SAS programmes are being run in line with the Places Leisure objectives. You will ensure that SAS activities sessions are operated in accordance with our SAS guidance and other relevant sports pathways.
You will engage with relevant staff within the area to raise awareness of SAS, maximising commercial opportunities, participation growth and social value.
For more information, please download the job description for this role. Please note; although this role is agile you will be required to travel between Places Leisure Centres and offices in the Midlands & North
More about you
To be successful in this role you will have knowledge of the Leisure market and the activities that we offer. You will have previous experience working with managers and developing them. You will be a strong communicator and will be able to work across different departments from Marketing to Swim Managers.
You will have previous experience promoting and marketing Leisure sites and will be able to offer guidance to our centres on best practice.
The benefits
We are a large diverse and ambitious business, which will give you all the challenge you could wish for.
We know that there's always more we can do to make you smile, that's why we offer a comprehensive benefits package with each role, yours will include:
- Real living wage employer
- Company Pension scheme
- Annual Leave Purchase scheme
- Flexible working (including part time working, shift work and more)
- Ongoing training and development
- Health & Fitness membership for you, a nominated adult and up to 4 juniors
- Discounts of up to 50% on activities, centre shop and cafes
- Extra perks including huge discounts and offers from shops, cinemas and much more.
Being a 7 day a week business, with opening hours from dawn ‘til dusk, Places Leisure offers flexible working patterns including shift work, job share and part time working. More than 80% of colleagues at Places Leisure actually work part time.
What's next?
If you meet the criteria and are ready to make the next step in your career then apply following our simple 5 minute application process, upload a CV and a supporting statement which demonstrates how you meet the requirements of the role. If you have any questions please call the recruitment team on 01772 666555.
Please note that we may bring the closing date forward, if we receive a large number of quality applications. If you are interested in this role we would advise applying immediately to avoid disappointment.
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