Place Lead - Active Communities in Weldon

North Northamptonshire Council is seeking an Active Communities - Place Lead to deliver the Sport England Place Based Expansion programme of work for North Northamptonshire. Working closely with Northamptonshire Sport and other partners, this project will be developed over two years and aim to make a real difference to inactivity levels by providing support to communities in three defined priority places within Corby and Wellingborough.

Benefits

• A vibrant working environment.
• A pension scheme, where we pay a significant contribution on top of your contribution, providing life cover and ill-health protection.
• Lots of opportunities to develop your skills, knowledge and potential in a large unitary council.
• Generous leave entitlement (28 days, rising to 33 days) and bank holidays, plus the option to buy up to an extra 10 days.
• Hybrid and flexible working arrangements, where practicable for service needs to help you with a healthy work–life balance.

About the role

The Place Lead will be required to work alongside other partners, build strong relationships with partners and communities to ensure efficient use of resources and a coordinated approach in developing local community and physical activity projects. The post holder will need to ensure that the programme meets all outcomes and that all activity complies with Health and Safety regulations and Safeguarding policies and procedures.

Working with communities, you will build capacity by identifying local volunteers, leaders, and champions; assessing their training and development needs, mentoring and supporting them to become local activators to mobilise communities. Develop and access external funding sources and resources to support the work in the priority places and develop a shared purpose and co‑produce Local Place Action Plans and link in with existing local organisations, initiatives and programmes.

The aims and outcomes will be developed with the funder Sport England / Northamptonshire Sport, and regular reporting and monitoring of programmes of work will be shared with these organisations and other partners. Examples of work already undertaken and work that would need to be developed further include a new Callanetics rig and a new Park Run developed both in Wellingborough; wheelchair basketball funding gained and local sessions started in Corby; further support needed to be given to Deaf Club and Funday to be organised at Lodge Park Sports Centre.

About you

A successful track record of delivering and managing community engagement projects and programmes is essential, along with experience of applying for external funding, developing strong working relationships with statutory and non‑statutory partners and the ability to produce and present high‑standard project monitoring reports to both internal and external partners. The post holder must possess excellent communication, planning and problem‑solving skills, be flexible, positive and enthusiastic in their approach to tasks and be a team player. You may be required to work evenings and weekends on occasion and we offer a flexible approach to working with the opportunity to work from home for some of the working week.

Employment details

Disability Confident Employer - We are a recognised Disability Confident Employer and are committed to providing an inclusive recruitment process and will offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the role.