Job Title: Head of Leadership Development
Salary: £43,000 - £46,000
Additional Benefits: Excellent pension contribution and annual leave allowance.
Location: This is a homeworker based role, but not a remote working one. You will be expected to work flexibly and to present at sessions and meetings across Gloucestershire throughout the week. It is therefore an expectation that you will be Gloucestershire based.
Purpose of this Role
To hold responsibility for the programme which provides opportunities, within a Christian sports-centred setting and framework, for children, young people, and young adults (with a priority on the more disadvantaged) to gain skills, experience, training, and qualifications to increase their self-esteem, confidence, and future employment opportunities.
To work within and in support of the Sportily seven spaces framework that sees:
- Children and young people’s lives, and their communities transformed through sport and physical activity.
- Leadership gifts and vocational calling identified, nurtured, and invested in.
- People of all ages invited to explore and encounter the Christian faith.
- New forms of church established for the younger generations, with sport and physical activity at their core.
Responsibilities
Leadership Development Programme
- Review, clarify, reshape, and agree with the Leadership Team the overall objectives for the programme and the measurable outcomes.
- Further develop the programme using a continual improvement process.
- Lead the delivery of elements of the programme such as sessions, residentials, and gatherings.
- Ensure the programme is integrated and delivered in each zone.
- Monitor and evaluate the impact of the programme.
- Produce reports for stakeholders on the activity and impact of the programme.
Sport and Faith Team
- Equip the Sport and Faith Team for the delivery of the Leadership Development Programme, including designing and delivering training for them.
- Support the team in the delivery of the programme including co-leading sessions, providing resources, and carrying out session observations.
- Work closely with the Sport and Faith Leader with responsibility for female leadership development to ensure that our programme specifically connects with and meets the needs of females.
- Support engagement with local, zone-wide, and network-wide stakeholders.
Partnerships
- Explore, develop, and lead on partnership opportunities that will enhance the programme's development, quality, delivery, funding, and outcomes. This could be across Gloucestershire and nationally.
Other Responsibilities
- Be conversant and comply with all Sportily policies and operating practices.
- Engage with personal training and development opportunities.
- Undertake other duties, or hold other network-wide responsibilities, as can be reasonably requested and expected.
This role carries an occupational requirement that the postholder is a practising Christian within the provisions of the Equality Act 2010. This post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service Check.
Essential Attributes, Desirable Where Noted
General
- Actively investing in growing as a disciple of Jesus Christ and participating, in good standing, in the life of a worshipping community either Anglican or affiliated to either Churches Together in Britain and Ireland or the Evangelical Alliance.
- Strongly supportive of Sportily’s aims and ethos.
- Committed to sharing the Good News of Jesus Christ with others.
- Demonstrable ability to inspire trust and confidence in others.
- Committed to the protection and safeguarding of children, young people, and vulnerable adults.
Qualifications and Training
- Educated to A-level, NVQ Level 3 or equivalent qualification.
- Level 2 Certificate in Coaching (Sport and Physical Activity), or similar qualification, or willingness to undertake this post-appointment.
- Level 3 Award in Education and Training (AET) or similar qualification, or willingness to undertake this post-appointment.
- Youth work, theology or teaching qualification (desirable).
- Full UK Driving Licence.
Knowledge, Experience, Skills and Abilities
Experience of:
- Working with children and young people.
- Developing leaders, ideally sports leaders, who are under 18.
- Writing and delivering a leadership programme.
- Sharing Jesus with those not of a faith background.
- Working with volunteers.
- Building effective working relationships with stakeholders such as churches, schools, leaders, and community organisations.
- Working effectively on own and as part of a team.
- Strong people skills.
- Planning, organising, prioritising, meeting deadlines and reporting effectively on work undertaken.
- Communicating and influencing effectively with a wide variety of audiences.
- Computer literate and conversant with digital communication channels.
Personal Qualities
- Creative, motivated and confident.
- Demonstrates initiative and perseverance – anticipates situations, problems, and opportunities and takes appropriate action.
- Takes personal responsibility for professional and spiritual growth.
- Able to operate as a reflective practitioner and to share learning with others.
- Approachable and helpful, with good interpersonal skills.
- Listens, coaches, and gives clear, honest, and constructive feedback.
- Confidential, trustworthy, respectful, self-aware, considerate, generous, and patient.
A full job pack is available, please email to request a copy.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: £43,000.00-£46,000.00 per year
Application deadline: 28/10/2024
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