Development Officer (Initially 24 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.

We know that within Leicestershire, Leicester & Rutland there are many individual places and communities with their own unique characteristics and challenges. As a partnership, we seek to recognise and respond to the needs of our places, and we work with local places to find local solutions to support communities to be physically active.

About the Role

This post will lead and focus on reducing inactivity within our places, supporting us to work with our communities to understand the barriers that exist, the needs of the community and support change to encourage our residents to move more. The post will also support us to work with our system partners, helping them to consider their role and how they facilitate physical activity in their local places.

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 click here: https://www.active-together.org/jobs/10775