Assistant Development Officer (Initially 12 Months)
| Posting date: | 23 June 2025 |
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| Salary: | £27,717 to £30,066 per year |
| Additional salary information: | Pay award pending |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 20 July 2025 |
| Location: | Leicester, Leicestershire |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 4 days per week |
| Company: | Active Together |
| Job type: | Contract |
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Summary
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 was 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 are focusing 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 with the successful delivery of 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 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 evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the interview process.
Reasonable adjustments will be considered for applicants with a disability.
Physical activity isn't a nice to have, it is essential to support people to live healthier and happier lives. 'If physical activity was 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 are focusing 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 with the successful delivery of 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 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 evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the interview process.
Reasonable adjustments will be considered for applicants with a disability.