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Swim Club Development Manager

Job details
Posting date: 29 May 2025
Salary: £38,502 per year
Hours: Part time
Closing date: 28 June 2025
Location: Ilford, Essex
Remote working: On-site only
Company: Vision Redbridge Culture and Leisure
Job type: Permanent
Job reference: REQ000175

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Summary

Location: Fullwell Cross Leisure Centre,140 High St, Ilford IG6 2EA

Vision RCL is looking for an inspiring and organised Swim Club Development
Manager to take London Borough Redbridge Swim Club (LBRSC) to the next level.

As part of our Health & Wellbeing team, you will play a key leadership role in growing participation, enhancing performance, and shaping the future of our swimming club. You'll lead a team of coaches and volunteers, manage programme delivery, ensure financial sustainability, and build the club's reputation across all levels of competition.

Job requirements:

Lead the growth and development of LBR Swim Club, increasing swimmer participation and income.
Design and manage high-quality competitive swim programmes across Vision RCL pools in collaboration with Centre Managers and General Managers.
Monitor and report on income and swimmer participation, ensuring consistent tracking of performance.
Manage budgets and staffing costs, ensuring all swim programmes are financially sustainable and efficiently staffed.
Oversee competitive progression, working closely with the Head Coach to support swimmers at all competition levels.
Develop a strong club ethos that motivates athletes and enhances the club's reputation as a centre of excellence.

Essential requirements:

A dynamic leader with proven experience managing swimming programmes.
Minimum Swim England Level 3 Swimming Teacher qualification required.
Strong understanding of competitive swimming and athlete development pathways.
Excellent people management skills with the ability to inspire coaches, volunteers, and swimmers.

Financial and budget management experience.
Effective communicator who can work collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders, including Swim England.

In return, we can offer the successful candidates a company pension scheme, annual performance rewards, generous annual leave, employee assistance programme and GP referral scheme. In addition, we offer our staff free gym, swim and spa membership at all Vision sites; Corporate Health Cash Plan (which provides free access to essential health care and valuable health and wellbeing services); employee recognition scheme; cycle to work and electric leasing car scheme.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

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