Sport Development Officer
| Posting date: | 29 September 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £31,236 to £34,610 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 12 October 2025 |
| Location: | Bristol, South West England |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 2 days per week |
| Company: | University West of England |
| Job type: | Temporary |
| Job reference: | R08779 |
Summary
About the role
At UWE Bristol Sport, we’re passionate about creating the best possible sporting and participation opportunities for our students. In partnership with the Students’ Union, we proudly support more than 40 student sports clubs to grow, compete, and thrive.
As our Sport Development Officer, you’ll play a vital role in delivering the Sport Experience strategy – ensuring UWE Bristol students have access to high-quality sport and physical activity opportunities. You’ll lead on recruiting and supporting a team of 70+ qualified coaches, managing facility scheduling across both UWE and external venues, and helping to shape unforgettable sporting experiences.
Your role will also see you drive our Sports Volunteering Programme, manage budgets, and support students in achieving coaching and officiating qualifications. A highlight of the year will be coordinating our annual sports festival, where you’ll introduce more than 200 local schoolchildren to the excitement of university sport.
We’re looking for an experienced, motivated, and enthusiastic individual with outstanding organisational skills and a strong background in sport development to join our team. This is a maternity cover role (up to 12 months) – a fantastic opportunity to make a meaningful impact, inspire participation, and help build a healthier, more active community at UWE Bristol.
About you
You’ll have a solid background in sport development or organisation, paired with a genuine passion for encouraging others to get active and experience the benefits of physical activity and sport.
Highly organised and adaptable, you’ll thrive in a busy environment and feel confident engaging with a wide range of people – from students to staff and external partners – communicating clearly and effectively across different audiences.
Your experience of working within a large, complex organisation will be complemented by excellent IT skills, with the ability to work confidently across a variety of digital platforms and databases.
While experience in the Higher Education sector would be a plus, it isn’t essential. Most important is your enthusiasm, expertise, and commitment to supporting student sport and building an active, thriving community.
Where is this role based?
This post is based at our lively Frenchay campus where we have invested in the latest facilities and resources to give both our staff and students access to everything they need to succeed.
Why UWE Bristol?
We are one of the largest providers of Higher Education in the South West with
38,000 students and 4,000 staff from right across the globe. Based in vibrant Bristol, our ambitions are to make a positive difference to our planet, transforming futures through actions and solving real world challenges.
We offer a wide range of employee benefits including progressive pay rates, very generous annual leave and career average pension schemes as well as retail savings, onsite nursery and opportunities for training and personal development.
Add your individuality to ours
UWE Bristol recognises the power of a truly diverse university community.
We are proud to be part of a dynamic, multicultural city that celebrates diversity, we’re always looking for talented people from all backgrounds to join us. Our people are our strength, and diversity enhances our creativity and leads to better decision-making and problem-solving. Bring your talent and ambition to our stimulating and supportive community where we’ll help you thrive.
We particularly encourage applications from global majority male candidates as we are currently under-represented in this area, however all appointments are made strictly on individual merit.
As a Disability Confident employer we welcome applications from those who identify as having a disability.
Further information
If you would like to speak to us to find out more about this role please contact Tamara Getter on 0117 328 86245 or email: tamara2.getter@uwe.ac.uk.
Interviews are scheduled to take place at our Frenchay Campus on Friday 14th November 2025.
This is a full time, fixed-term post for up to 12 months, working 37 hours per week.
This post is available on a job share basis for applicants wishing to work part time.
UWE Bristol is a campus-based University and it is vital to our success and the delivery of an outstanding experience for our students that our campuses are dynamic and vibrant places to learn and spend time. This role is therefore campus based for at least 60 percent of your time, with the opportunity to work from home on the remaining days.
To ensure fairness and equity all salary offers will be made in line with the University's salary assessment guidelines and will be based on your relevant skills and experience.
This post requires standard DBS clearance.
The University has a legal responsibility to ensure that all employees are eligible to work in the UK. You will therefore be required to provide evidence of this right, please refer to the Home Office Right to Work Checklist for information on which documents are acceptable.
Advice to applicants
We’d love to hear from you - if you are excited about this opportunity please complete our application form as soon as possible.
Tell us how your skills and experience relate to the requirements of this role by describing how you meet each of the essential and desirable criteria listed in the Person Specification section of the Job Description, and include specific examples wherever possible.
Once we have completed shortlisting we will let you know the outcome of your application by email, so please check your inbox for updates.
At UWE Bristol Sport, we’re passionate about creating the best possible sporting and participation opportunities for our students. In partnership with the Students’ Union, we proudly support more than 40 student sports clubs to grow, compete, and thrive.
As our Sport Development Officer, you’ll play a vital role in delivering the Sport Experience strategy – ensuring UWE Bristol students have access to high-quality sport and physical activity opportunities. You’ll lead on recruiting and supporting a team of 70+ qualified coaches, managing facility scheduling across both UWE and external venues, and helping to shape unforgettable sporting experiences.
Your role will also see you drive our Sports Volunteering Programme, manage budgets, and support students in achieving coaching and officiating qualifications. A highlight of the year will be coordinating our annual sports festival, where you’ll introduce more than 200 local schoolchildren to the excitement of university sport.
We’re looking for an experienced, motivated, and enthusiastic individual with outstanding organisational skills and a strong background in sport development to join our team. This is a maternity cover role (up to 12 months) – a fantastic opportunity to make a meaningful impact, inspire participation, and help build a healthier, more active community at UWE Bristol.
About you
You’ll have a solid background in sport development or organisation, paired with a genuine passion for encouraging others to get active and experience the benefits of physical activity and sport.
Highly organised and adaptable, you’ll thrive in a busy environment and feel confident engaging with a wide range of people – from students to staff and external partners – communicating clearly and effectively across different audiences.
Your experience of working within a large, complex organisation will be complemented by excellent IT skills, with the ability to work confidently across a variety of digital platforms and databases.
While experience in the Higher Education sector would be a plus, it isn’t essential. Most important is your enthusiasm, expertise, and commitment to supporting student sport and building an active, thriving community.
Where is this role based?
This post is based at our lively Frenchay campus where we have invested in the latest facilities and resources to give both our staff and students access to everything they need to succeed.
Why UWE Bristol?
We are one of the largest providers of Higher Education in the South West with
38,000 students and 4,000 staff from right across the globe. Based in vibrant Bristol, our ambitions are to make a positive difference to our planet, transforming futures through actions and solving real world challenges.
We offer a wide range of employee benefits including progressive pay rates, very generous annual leave and career average pension schemes as well as retail savings, onsite nursery and opportunities for training and personal development.
Add your individuality to ours
UWE Bristol recognises the power of a truly diverse university community.
We are proud to be part of a dynamic, multicultural city that celebrates diversity, we’re always looking for talented people from all backgrounds to join us. Our people are our strength, and diversity enhances our creativity and leads to better decision-making and problem-solving. Bring your talent and ambition to our stimulating and supportive community where we’ll help you thrive.
We particularly encourage applications from global majority male candidates as we are currently under-represented in this area, however all appointments are made strictly on individual merit.
As a Disability Confident employer we welcome applications from those who identify as having a disability.
Further information
If you would like to speak to us to find out more about this role please contact Tamara Getter on 0117 328 86245 or email: tamara2.getter@uwe.ac.uk.
Interviews are scheduled to take place at our Frenchay Campus on Friday 14th November 2025.
This is a full time, fixed-term post for up to 12 months, working 37 hours per week.
This post is available on a job share basis for applicants wishing to work part time.
UWE Bristol is a campus-based University and it is vital to our success and the delivery of an outstanding experience for our students that our campuses are dynamic and vibrant places to learn and spend time. This role is therefore campus based for at least 60 percent of your time, with the opportunity to work from home on the remaining days.
To ensure fairness and equity all salary offers will be made in line with the University's salary assessment guidelines and will be based on your relevant skills and experience.
This post requires standard DBS clearance.
The University has a legal responsibility to ensure that all employees are eligible to work in the UK. You will therefore be required to provide evidence of this right, please refer to the Home Office Right to Work Checklist for information on which documents are acceptable.
Advice to applicants
We’d love to hear from you - if you are excited about this opportunity please complete our application form as soon as possible.
Tell us how your skills and experience relate to the requirements of this role by describing how you meet each of the essential and desirable criteria listed in the Person Specification section of the Job Description, and include specific examples wherever possible.
Once we have completed shortlisting we will let you know the outcome of your application by email, so please check your inbox for updates.
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A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. For more details please go to Disability Confident.