Job Description

Strategic Lead Health and Physical Activity

Location: Fishponds, Bristol

Salary: £32,864 - £35,714 per annum

Contract: Fixed Term (maternity cover) 12 months

Our client is a Registered Charity & Company Limited by Guarantee and fulfils the role of the Active Partnership for the West of England, which covers Bath & North East Somerset, Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire, an area with a population of nearly 1.2 million.

Their vision is to: Inspire active lives, creating the conditions wherever possible to help everyone move more.

The mission is: Establishing the conditions for long-term change, enabling more people to be physically active, inclusive for all.

The Role

Strategic Leadership, Management and Implementation of Health & Physical Activity for the organisation.

The role will involve advocation for the importance of ‘moving more’ across the local health systems 2 x Integrated Care Systems across the West of England, connection to the local community sector and programme development and management.

This role will work closely with and be supported by the Director of Health, as this role will build on existing connections and manage existing programmes to continue the momentum of progress made so far.

Working across the current evolving local Health systems is complex and requires strategic influencing & advocacy to make an impact, so they are looking for someone with partnership development experience as well as knowledge of working with the health sector.

Key Responsibilities

* Develop a detailed understanding of the people, places, and communities across the West of England in order to further the organisation’s work.

* To support the current work taking place across the Health System to embed physical activity.

* Building relationships across both sectors (health and sport & physical activity), along with identifying & connecting opportunities.

* Project management of specific funded programmes within the health system, and lead for the Ageing Well work.

* Understanding the local health landscape across Public Health and the NHS – working at a place-level. This role will have a particular focus on Bath & North-East Somerset as one of the 4 Unitary Authority areas that the organisation covers.

* Understanding of the VCSE Sector and the existing & potential connections into the health system.

Skills and Qualifications

* Experience in building effective working relationships to achieve positive outcomes

* Experience of reporting & presenting to funders, key stakeholders, other interested parties

* A degree or equivalent recognised qualification in a related field or proven ability to demonstrate equivalent knowledge through experience in professional roles

* Knowledge and experience of working within either the health, and/or sport and physical activity sector

* Evidence of supporting successful resource and project management and an understanding of the techniques required through experience of managing, planning, implementing and evaluating projects.

* Experience of cross-sector stakeholder working, developing strong and successful partnerships. Ideally within the health / wellbeing and physical activity sectors.

* Awareness of the inequalities faced by key audiences (in focus communities) to being physically active

* An understanding of Sport England’s place-based focus and whole system approach

* An understanding of sports equity, safeguarding children and adults at risk policies, planning, implementation and evaluation

* Awareness of current issues and legislation regarding to equalities, diversity, equity, and inclusion (EDEI)

* An understanding of the requirements of key partners, agencies and organisations in demonstrating the value of physical activity to the achievement of objectives (local – national organisations)

* Experience in developing working partnerships with other professional organisations and the voluntary sector.

* Proven ability to move initiatives forward

* Ability to manage multiple demands with attention to detail

* Experience of impact measurement and reporting

* Resource management experience

* Experience of working successfully in cross–organisational teams

* Experience of strategic planning and the process of implementing, reviewing and adapting plans

* Knowledge / awareness of national planning processes for sport and the potential opportunities / challenges this can have on an organisation.

* IT literate and a knowledge of the benefits that IT can bring to enhance planning, evaluation, management and communications

Benefits

Workplace Pension Scheme – as part of the organisation’s team, after 3 months you are automatically enrolled into the workplace pension. Their employer contribution rate is between 8-10% dependent on the employee contribution rate (minimum of 4%).

23 days of annual leave (pro rata) plus public holidays.

Cycle to Work scheme

Flexible working arrangements

Small, friendly staff team

Employee Assistance Programme

Free parking at the office

Office electric bike that can be borrowed for going to meetings

Free annual Parks Tennis membership for either the Bristol Parks Tennis or Tennis @ The Park sites

To Apply

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