Children & Families Physical Activity Lead - ANG05909
| Posting date: | 03 December 2025 |
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| Salary: | £38,292.00 to £41,562.00 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 11 January 2026 |
| Location: | UK |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | Angus Council |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | ANG05909 |
Summary
Job Description
Based at Forfar Library, 50-56 West High Street, Forfar
Help us change lives in Angus by inspiring Healthy, Active and Creative lifestyle choices.Our business is everything to do with people and that's why our staff are so important to our success.
As Children and Families Physical Activity Lead, you will develop and deliver exciting, innovative and highly engaging physical activity programmes across Angus.
You will help children and young people to develop physical confidence and competence required to develop a foundation of lifelong participation in physical activity and sport, and improve levels of participation for children, young people and families.
You will also work collaboratively with colleagues across all ANGUSalive service areas and business units to provide the best customer experience for local communities as well as visitors to Angus, deliver innovative services and further our charitable objectives.
To do well in this role you will be able to demonstrate our key behaviours in customer service excellence, continuous improvement, engaged workforce, innovative services and leadership.
A friendly outgoing personality and the ability to use your initiative are essential. You will bring skills, knowledge and experience of implementing sport and physical activity programmes, engaging with community groups to understand local need and the ability to work in partnership with various agencies in collating and gathering data to support the development of sport and physical activity opportunities for customers.
Are you adaptable and resilient, innovative and enthusiastic, ambitious and high performing, customer and results focused, hardworking and willing to learn? This could be the job for you to make a difference to your local community.
You'll find working with our customers, colleagues and partners is interesting and varied as well as providing an exciting opportunity for you to help shape the future of countryside services in Angus.
What's more, ANGUSalive offers our employees an excellent rewards package which includes a generous holiday allowance, 17% employer pension contributions, opportunities to work in facilities with recently re-developed fitness suites and free bACTIVE membership.
If you can commit to working with us for the people of Angus and are interested in joining the team to become an ambassador for ANGUSalive we'd love to hear from you.
Based at ANGUSalive sites and community locations as applicable with your nominated base at Forfar Library, 50-56 West High Street, Forfar, Angus, DD8 1BA.
Our organisation also supports homeworking to provide a flexible working option for employees to work from home and other permitted locations.
You must have the ability to become a member of the PVG Scheme and you may be required to meet the costs.
Please refer to the job outline, person specification and information sheet for further details and requirements for this job.
Please note interviews will be held Week commencing Monday, 26 January 2026 .
Requirements
You must have the ability to become a member of the PVG Scheme.
Please refer to job outline and person specification for further details and requirements for this job.
The Individual
We are happy to discuss flexible working during the recruitment process for this position. This means we are open to a conversation about working patterns and the flexibility that is available for this role whilst managing the workload.
We offer a guaranteed job interview to the following people who meet the essential criteria on application for a job:
Those with disabilities, recognised caring responsibilities and care experienced young people. This also applies to our own employees with caring responsibilities, young people on apprenticeships and placements who meet the essential criteria for the job.
Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme