Active Travel Lead

What’s in it for me?

As an Active Travel Lead we can offer you:

• Salary: Band 5, £33,604 - £37,812 p.a. (pro-rata for part time hours)
• Hours: 30 hours per week
• Location: Hybrid Working - Rochdale Boroughwide and Home

What will my role be as an Active Travel Lead?

The purpose of the job is to lead a professional, efficient and high quality Active Travel Programme across the Borough and for the Community. This includes being the Lead for the Active Travel Programme, line managing a delivery team of Coaches, Facilitators and Volunteers as well as leading on developing and improving the Active Travel offer across the Borough through linking with Your Trust Teams and community venues, education settings and local authority services to ensure the outcomes of the offer are met.

What do I need to have?

• Educated to degree level or equivalent in a relevant subject such as fitness, sport science or a health or environment related subject or qualified by experience
• Hold Community Sport Leaders Award, Level 2 NGB Coaching qualifications or exercise or fitness qualification
• Hold Community Sport Leaders Award, Level 2 NGB Coaching qualifications or exercise or fitness qualification
• Proven and successful experience of working in an activity programming environment linked to active travel and/or the climate agenda
• Experience of developing and maintaining partnerships with public, private, community or voluntary groups
• Experience of designing, delivering and promoting activity sessions to families, children and young people
• Understanding of the barriers to Active Travel experienced by families, children and young people within a community
• Knowledge of how Active Travel combined with sport and physical activity can impact positively on individuals and local communities
• Proven ability to develop positive relationships with stakeholders, partners and members of the public including effective management of compliments and complaints
• Excellent communication; both oral and written including report writing and excellent interpersonal skills including delivery of presentations
• Excellent time management skills

As an organisation we encourage an environment which is inclusive to all therefore we welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and with all different kinds of life experiences. If you have any interest in/or experience in any of the following: Sports Coach, Community Work, Health & Fitness, Customer Service then we would love to hear from you.

If you have any queries please call 01706 926215.

All applications must be made using the Your Trust Online Application Form as we do not accept CVs.

All positions are subject to a DBS Check appropriate to the role.