Development Officer (Initially 12 Months)

Organisation: Active Together
Salary: £34,350 - £37,950
Location: Leicester
Contract type: Fixed Term (Full time)
Closing date: 13 July 2025
Interview date: 28 July 2025
Job Description: This is an exciting opportunity for a Development Officer, who would like to support us to work with communities, organisations and partners to deliver our Physical Activity Framework and support our vision of Leicestershire, Leicester & Rutland: a place where physical activity is part of daily life, leading to people living healthier and happier lives.

Physical activity isn't a nice to have, it is essential to support people to live healthier and happier lives. Where a person lives and the environment around them has a huge impact on how likely communities are to be physically active.

National guidelines advise that physical activity promotion, healthcare-based interventions and community wide programmes are some of the 'best buys' for getting a population active, As a partnership we want to ensure that we are focusing on improving health (through physical activity) in all our decisions, programmes and policies.

About the Role

This post will lead and focus on increasing opportunities to embed physical activity advice and guidance within the health system, support a dedicated health and physical activity workstream and work with our partners to deliver physical activity interventions and campaigns in local communities.

Examples of projects (although not a definitive list):
- Developing a universal and targeted approach to raise physical activity in low participating groups and settings.
- Raise awareness of the health and wellbeing benefits of physical activity to partners, settings and communities
- Supporting wider sector professionals and groups to embed physical activity into their settings/programmes/policies and have conversations about the benefits of physical activity.
- Support the development and delivery of relevant local and national physical activity campaigns/programmes to reduce inactivity and increase participation.
- Encouraging everyone to embed regular, informal physical activity opportunities into their daily lives.
- Address the equality, diversity and inclusion challenges that are prevalent in physical activity provision.
- Make a positive difference to the physical activity levels in our Places and Communities.

About You

To apply for this post, you must have:
- BTEC Higher/NVQ 4 or degree in a relevant area or substantial experience in the areas below and ongoing continuing professional development.
- Proven experience in physical activity, health, sport and/or community development and managing large scale associated projects, initiatives and programmes.
- Working with under-represented groups / communities to tackle inequalities (both to address participation levels and improve health and wellbeing)
- Working in partnership with a broad range of organisations both within the physical activity sector and non physical activity partners.
- Physical Activity, health (Public Health, Primary / Secondary Care, Integrated Care Systems) and Sport (National, regional and local plans/policies), including - Physical Activity, Sport and health development processes and national direction
- You must also have an understanding of, and commitment to, equality, diversity and inclusion.

In addition, we expect you to share our commitment to our values and will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the interview process.

Reasonable adjustments will be considered for applicants with a disability.
How to apply: To apply to the role apply here: https://www.active-together.org/jobs/10774