Sporting Equals Activator Services Sporting Equals Locations: Location East London ( Barking & Dagenham Services: Sporting Equals Activator Grade/Salary Range: Hours: A minimum of 8 hours per week £120 per day inclusive of expenses (outside 6 miles a payment of 0.25p per mile) JOB PURPOSE The Sporting Equals Activator will work in close collaboration with the Sporting Equals central team to provide local engagement and delivery support to the following projects; Spirit 2012 ‘Breaking Boundaries’, LTA Tennis Serves and Equally Active (LMCT) London Marathon Charitable Trust Project. Working with and through local partners the role will help support and co-ordinate day to day local activities working in close collaboration with partner agencies against key KPIs. The Sporting Equals Activators will support the delivery end of the Sporting Equals network in their local area by providing regular and relevant contact on behalf of Sporting Equals in the form of visits, group meetings and phone calls. Using their knowledge and experience to challenge practice, broker relationships, manage volunteers and support local delivery to help projects towards a sustainable outcome. MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES To support local project engagement and delivery working in close collaboration with the Sporting Equals Central team and Youth Sport Trust Programme Manager for the Breaking Boundaries project, 1. To provide brokerage and engagement support against key KPIs for the Breaking Boundaries, LTA Tennis Serves and (LMCT) Equally Active projects. 2. To broker and develop relationships at a local level with ethnically diverse and faith communities ensuring young people and local residents/worshippers are developed as volunteers and integrated into local delivery across key projects. 3. Support the Breaking Boundaries delivery and management groups, Cricket Foundation Trusts and Local Authority leads in delivering against key KPIs and local area delivery plans aligned to the wider city-based cohesion strategy. 4. Support the Breaking Boundaries Community Coordinator against their job description and objectives. 5. Support the development and delivery of Breaking Boundaries annual celebration and leadership events, working in close collaboration with the Regional Manager, Youth Sport Trust and other partners. 6. Work with the Breaking Boundaries Community Coordinator and SE Regional Manager, to lead on the recruitment of community champions and support the coordination of the Champions training ensuring community champions attend each training/development session. 7. Provide a mentoring role for the Breaking Boundaries Community Coordinator ensuring they are integrated into the project and help support local delivery plans and objectives. 8. Work across projects ensuring key baseline data is captured at various points across the project. 9. Lead on the Equally Active (LMCT) project supporting Faith centres with creating delivery plans, M&E requirements, steering group meetings, community engagement and integration. 10. Work with the M&E consultant, Faith centres and steering group ensuring baseline data is captured at various points across the Equally Active (LMCT) project 11. To support the LTA Tennis SERVES programme, ensuring monitoring is returned, centres are supported to sustain tennis activity, creation of new SERVES sites, booking and attending activator training and attending regional meetings. 12. To provide support to community organisations to become SE Associate Members. 13. To provide support across projects to help maximise learning and sharing of best practice. 14. To support the Regional Manager with local insight and collect information at a local level to help understand local markets and audiences. 15. To work closely with the Regional Manager to facilitate focus groups, interviews, collect blogs and case studies to enable key insight to be collected across projects. 16. To support monitoring and evaluation frameworks against quarterly reporting, data capture and reporting cross projects. 17. To raise the profile of Sporting Equals in local communities through building relationship with key regional and local stakeholders. 18. Work with the Regional Manager to coordinate PR, communications and social media activity for all projects. 19. To provide fortnightly telephone updates, monthly update progress reports and updated CRM database and detailed quarterly monitoring reports to the Director of Projects for reporting against KPIs. 20. To make suggestions to contribute to the improvement and development of the programme. General 1. Support the Sporting Equals network by meeting new organisations and identifying how Sporting Equals can help support or integrate them; 2. Provide communication and support to those organisations involved in the Spirit programme, in particular around the planning, funding and reporting elements of the programme. 3. Lead and/or support the Breaking Boundaries Community Champions to help them offer input and support them to integrate with local area plans, events and delivery. 4. Promote to all organisations the range and availability of Sporting Equals programmes and national events to enhance local provision. 5. Support local organisations with the Monitoring & Evaluation process. 6. Maintain a CRM database of key contacts and engagement activities. 7. Develop partnerships and new opportunities that add to the Sporting Equals Network. 8. Share learning and experiences with the SE team to help develop learning and input into new projects as directed by the Director of Projects. 9. Attend regular training and briefings to ensure knowledge of Sporting Equals programmes and learning is shared across the team. 10. Provide updates and reporting as advised by the Director of Projects and Regional Manager. PERSON SPECIFICATION Sporting Equals Job Title: Sporting Equals Activators The Activators are knowledgeable, enthusiastic and passionate about working with young people and local residents, volunteers and community organisations from the most deprived communities. Providing opportunities to take part in cricket, tennis and other physical activities in a style that will engage now and have a lasting sustainable impact on their lives. The Activator will use their time and inter-personal skills to get to know the people, build productive working relationships, lead local delivery and support projects against KPIs as agreed with the Director of Projects. Experience Essential ▪ Strong knowledge and understanding of the issues relating to the low levels of sports participation within ethnic diverse communities, disadvantaged and young people in deprived communities. ▪ Understanding of sports development and how this can be used as a platform for greater integration and cohesion within communities. ▪ Understanding of community engagement and experience of developing partnerships with local communities. ▪ Experience of brokering relationships with partners across the public, private and voluntary sectors. ▪ Some understanding of engagement and support for disabled people. ▪ Knowledge of monitoring and evaluation techniques and understanding of basic research techniques to help data capture. ▪ Experience of action planning /work programme planning and reporting against project targets and activities. ▪ Significant experience in community and/or sports development work in a paid and/or voluntary capacity. ▪ Experience of managing/delivering a successful young volunteer project; ▪ Experience of successful recruiting and retaining participants/volunteers. ▪ Experience of coordinating events, training and providing support to partners to delivery local and regional events. ▪ Experience of setting up partnerships and contributing to networks to help support young people, local residents, volunteers, organisations and the community. ▪ Experience of challenging local delivery models to adapt to change. Desirable o Understanding of the value of sport in developing healthier lifestyles and social cohesion. o Experience of producing reports and information using local insight. o Experience of capacity building within ethnically diverse communities. o Good network of contacts in sport and ethnically diverse communities o Knowledge of sport and young people in its relation to other policy agendas e.g. health, education and anti-social behaviour. o Experience of providing mentoring, training and support to volunteers. o Delivering projects linked to sport and the wider social integration agenda. Skills and Abilities: Essential ▪ Excellent person to person communication skills; presenting ideas and information, providing clear instructions, persuading and negotiating. ▪ Excellent written communication skills with the ability to support the production of written reports, and support materials for local organisations. ▪ Excellent customer care skills with the ability to develop these in others. ▪ Excellent organisational skills, able to manage aspects of a regional programme ▪ Able to use own initiative and work without direct supervision and ability to work in a team setting to achieve individual and collective targets. ▪ Able to prioritise workload effectively and deal with competing and conflicting priorities. ▪ Strong teamwork skills with the ability to lead and play a role within a team, including motivating colleagues and team members. ▪ Able to use Word, Excel and PowerPoint and email effectively. ▪ Ability to present to a variety of audiences. ▪ Experience of working with young people in a community sporting environment and awareness of the challenges of community cohesion. ▪ A flexible approach to work. ▪ A belief in and commitment to achieving equality of opportunity. Desirable o Able to interpret statistical information relating to project targets and include data and analysis in reports to Projects Director. o Good network of contacts in sport and physical activity. o Able to communicate effectively using social media, blogs, case studies and get young people engaged to help promote the project. Work Related Personal Requirements This post will may be subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service check. The postholder must be able to travel and have use of a vehicle for work purposes. The postholder may be expected to stay away for work purposes from time to time (evening and weekend work will be required). NOTE: All work will be recorded and a timesheet, reporting document and CRM database submitted to your line manager before contracted payments are made. Applications should be made by submitted a covering letter stating why you are suitable for the post against the role description and person specification along With your CV. Please email your covering letter and CV to: tmasih@sportingequals.org.uk
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