Assistant Development Officer
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 13 Mehefin 2025 |
|---|---|
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 13 Gorffennaf 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Leicester, LE3 8RA |
| Cwmni: | Leicestershire County Council |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 5468 |
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Organisation: Leicestershire County Council
Work Location: County Hall, Glenfield, Leicester, LE3 8RA
Worker Category: Hybrid Worker
Salary: £27,717 - £30,066 per annum (Pro rata for part-time)
Working Hours: 37 hours per week
Contract Type: Fixed Term (initially 12 months, with any potential extension subject to securing external funding)
Closing Date: 20th July 2025
Interview Date(s): 31st July 2025
Active Together is a partnership organisation that works to help communities in Leicestershire, Leicester, and Rutland get moving a little more.
This is an exciting opportunity for an Assistant 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. ‘If physical activity were a drug, we would refer to it as a miracle cure due to the many great illnesses it can prevent and treat’.
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 focus on improving health (through physical activity) in all our decisions, programmes, and policies.
About the Role
This post will support the Development Manager/Development Officer in successfully delivering programmes and initiatives as part of a dedicated health and physical activity workstream.
Examples of projects to be supported (although not a definitive list):
- Universal and targeted programmes to raise physical activity in low-participating groups and settings across the life-course
- Programmes to raise the awareness of the health and wellbeing benefits of physical activity to professionals, settings and communities
- Programmes to support professionals and groups to embed physical activity into their settings/programmes/policies
- Local and National Physical Activity Campaigns to reduce inactivity and increase participation
- Programmes to support access to physical activity facilities within communities
- Encouraging people to take responsibility for embedding physical activity 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:
- NVQ 3 Level qualification in a relevant area or equivalent level of experience in the areas below, and ongoing continuing professional development
- Experience in physical activity, health, sport and/or community development and
- Experience in supporting physical activity/health/sport and/or community development projects, initiatives and programmes
- Working in partnership with a broad range of organisations, both within the physical activity sector and non-physical activity partners
- Physical Activity, health and Sport (National, regional, 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 provide evidence when you demonstrate them during the interview process.
Reasonable adjustments will be considered for applicants with a disability.
Interested in Flexible Working?
We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments. Therefore, wherever possible, we will consider working arrangements that suit an individual's personal circumstances whilst still meeting the needs of the Council. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role, please contact the person named below. This may include requests for term-time working, part-time hours, compressed hours, flexible start and finish times, home/remote working, etc.
Every role within the Council has a defined working style, which determines where they can work. The worker category applicable to this post is detailed in the above advert. You can find out more about our worker categories on the Our Working Styles page on our career site.
For more information or an informal discussion, please contact:
Geoff Maltby, Strategic Lead, T: 01 509 467489, Email: g.maltby@active-together.org
Jo Newberry, Strategic Lead, T: 01 509 467493, Email: j.newberry@active-together.org
How to Apply
Leicestershire County Council is an inclusive organisation which is on a journey to embed and celebrate equality, diversity and inclusion at every level. We warmly welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, as having a diverse workforce with different perspectives and ideas is fundamental to our values and enriches the services, we offer our communities. We particularly welcome applicants from Ethnically Diverse and LGBTQ+ communities and people with disabilities to create a balanced workforce and one that reflects the communities we serve. Applicants with a disability who meet the criteria listed in the ‘About You’ section above will be offered an interview under the Disability Confident Employer Scheme.
To apply for this job, please click on the apply button. You will need to upload a supporting statement explaining how you meet the criteria listed in the ‘About You’ section above. For more information, see the How to Apply section on our career site.
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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