GLL is looking for a Community Sport Manager to work across the leisure and sport facilities in Gateshead. If you have the skills and ambition to join us in this role, there has never been a more exciting time to become part of our team.
The primary role of a Community Sport Manager is to enable our communities to increase their participation in sport and leisure activities, reducing inequalities and improving both physical health and mental well-being.
This is a unique and exciting role, responsible for developing and delivering a comprehensive Active Communities Annual Plan for our leisure facilities as well as community settings across Gateshead, guided by the following principles:
Participation: GLL aims to widen and deepen participation across all our facilities.
Reinvestment: GLL is a charitable social enterprise that reinvests surplus into our communities.
Access: GLL ensures any barriers to activity in our venues and services are removed.
Empowering Communities: GLL connects and empowers communities to improve their physical, social, and mental well-being.
The post-holder will work with partners, communities, and leisure centre teams to establish pathways of opportunity for individuals and communities to achieve their potential, using physical activity and sport to tackle cross-cutting issues such as health improvement and community development. The role also ensures that leisure centres provide:
Policies and systems that support customers’ and colleagues’ health and well-being while ensuring equality.
A choice of products tailored to meet the needs of all audience types.
Accessible products and services available at the right time, place, and price.
Opportunities for stakeholders and communities to co-design, deliver, and promote services.
Engagement with audiences and stakeholders, reinforcing GLL’s position as the leading charitable social enterprise in the leisure sector.
Investment in our people, local communities, and volunteers to meet local needs.
You will interact with a diverse range of people, including schoolchildren, the elderly, and individuals from various religious and ethnic groups. Excellent communication skills are essential to relate effectively to all types of people. Ideally, candidates will hold a degree and have experience in planning and leading community, health, or sport-based activities and programmes.
While working as part of a wider team, you will be expected to manage your own workload and work independently. You will be comfortable engaging with stakeholders at all levels and confident in delivering presentations. As a creative thinker, you will thrive on devising new initiatives to engage the community and foster participation in leisure activities.
As a charitable social enterprise owned by its staff GLL has a great range of benefits for its employees:
A Values driven organisation
Learning & development to support career development
Good Pension schemes
Discounted gym membership for you and your partner.
A full-time permanent position
Industry leading rates of pay
opportunity to join the GLL Society and have a say in how we are run plus associated social events
Exclusive discounts on our villas in Portugal
Exclusive discounts on our Ski chalets in Bulgaria
Health assurance
Career pathways, professional development are just the start. To ensure you stay at the top of your game, we provide training with practical and theory elements too.
Discounts across thousands of retailers (GLL Extras)
25% off Red Letter Days
25% off Buy A Gift
20% off GLL spa experience treatments and associated products.
Ride to work scheme
Free eye tests and discounted glasses
About GLL:
As the UK’s largest leisure operator and charitable social enterprise, we offer a range of careers for everyone in our local communities. We manage over 400 facilities across England, Wales and Northern Ireland, including public sport and leisure centres, elite sporting venues, libraries and children’s centres.
Our people are from the communities we serve and help us make real changes in their local area.
One of our core values is ‘More than a Job’, because working with us opens up a wide range of possibilities and opportunities for you, starting with how you work with us. To make sure we’re having a positive impact on our people, we also offer some flexible and part-time working options so you can make sure your new job works for you. Subject to vacancies, whether you are after a contractual commitment and a regular work schedule or the freedom of flexible hours, you may be able to choose an arrangement that works best for you and play your part in improving the health and wellbeing of your community.
We offer two different types of work arrangements:
A permanent employment contract - part time and full time
A flexible worker engagement by joining our flexible worker pool
If you are looking for a regular number of hours that you can work and are flexible to meet the needs of a 7 day a week service, then a full-time or part-time permanent contract might be the right choice for you.
So, whether your ambitions lie in sport and leisure, events & catering, health & beauty, corporate support or working with children, you will be able to find your ideal new job at GLL.
Passionate about seeing our communities thrive, we invest back into our facilities, projects and people and are Investors in People Gold Award employer.
However you choose to work with us, you can be sure that you will be a valued member of our team, working with great colleagues, and making a real difference to people’s lives.
We are an inclusive employer. We seek and welcome diversity in our teams.
All pay rates are subject to skills, experience, qualifications, and location