Contract: 2 years fixed term (with possibility for extension subject to funding). Secondment opportunities from other organisations are welcomed.
Applications close: 17:00 Sunday 9 March 2025
Hours and location: Full time (37.5 hours per week), based at Slades Park Pavilion, Bournemouth with a mix of home and office working. It is expected you'll spend at least 40% of your working week in our main office.
About the role
This is a great opportunity to join Active Dorset, leading our focussed place work in Weymouth and Portland and the wider Dorset and BCP area. It's a really exciting time to join the team, in a new role funded by Sport England's Place-Based work through the Place Universal Offer approach. You will work alongside key organisations and senior leaders to co-create change, working across all layers of the system in order to tackle barriers to inactivity at every level of society. Influencing policy, environmental design, organisation and service design, and the social environment to design-in movement, supporting more people to experience the benefits of living an active life.
You will build open and honest relationships with a range of people and organisations who share the same values, motivations, and desire to affect change to help achieve the goals of Active Dorset and the Our Dorset Movement for Movement strategy.
We are looking for a passionate leader who can connect, collaborate, influence, and create a culture where everyone can be active. You will be skilled at building relationships and have a desire to engage communities, working collaboratively with local people, especially older children and young people, from communities least likely to be active. Building relationships which will support communities with high levels of inactivity and inequalities to find places, people, and resources to make their ideas happen.
Recruitment pack
For more information about us, the role, and the person specification, please take a look at our recruitment pack.
If you wish to receive a hard copy of this content, or in an alternative format, please contact us: info@activedorset.org.
Information about the role, including job description, person specification, and further information on how to apply.
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