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JOB TITLE

Participation and Events Officer

SALARY

£23,000 per annum (starting salary)

TERM

Fixed-Term 3-Year Contract

HOURS OF WORK

40 hours weekly

RESPONSIBLE TO

Operations Director

RESPONSIBLE FOR

N/A

Purpose of Role:

To work on behalf of Adrenaline Alley to increase participation at the facility, particularly amongst the most underrepresented sections of the community and those participating least in sport, physical activity and active recreation. In addition, to increase the number and quality of urban sport and community events and competitions staged at the facility, utilising these as a catalyst to further increase participation.

Key Areas of Responsibility:

• Working with our key partners, and utilising local networks and infrastructure outside of the facility, identify and engage with the sections of the local community currently participating least in sport, physical activity and active recreation, making use of findings extracted from Sport England’s Active People Survey.

• Continue to engage with these identified population segments, exploring ways in which Adrenaline Alley could become more accessible and more conducive to encouraging participation within these communities.

• By overviewing all provision at Adrenaline Alley, both within the key urban sport disciplines and other types of user provision, make recommendations on how to expand our portfolio of activities to better attract identified sections of the community and increase thereby participation.

• Work with the staff team at Adrenaline Alley, both through training sessions and generalised daily business, to increase awareness of the factors affecting participation, additionally working to put into place suitable changes in provision that aim to increase both overall participation, and in particular by those sections of the community identified as underrepresented and currently participating least.

• Using existing data management systems within Adrenaline Alley, monitor and track participation trends, using the outcomes to guide further work in increasing participation at the facility.

• Where appropriate, devise new methods of collecting participation data for Adrenaline Alley, particularly looking towards more qualitative information that will add value to our understanding of how to increase participation in urban sport at Adrenaline Alley.

• Use innovative communication and marketing solutions, both locally and further a field, designed to reach targeted populations and communities.

• Use innovative communication and marketing solutions to increase understanding of and make urban sport more attractive to a wider range of both young people and adults.

• Work up to international level with a multitude of key individuals, companies, organisations and National Governing Bodies to attract appropriate events to Adrenaline Alley, using the scope of our existing international standard facilities.

• Work with appropriate staff members and board directors to source effective sponsorship deals for urban sport events at Adrenaline Alley.

• Utilise Adrenaline Alley’s already well-established partnerships with professional urban sport athletes to both attract events to the facility, and to obtain guidance on operational aspects of urban sport event management.

• Work with the staff team and Board of Directors at Adrenaline Alley to advise and provide expertise on the operational requirements for event attraction, development and staging.

• Support the staff team at Adrenaline Alley in the actual staging of events.

• Use innovative communication and marketing solutions up to an international level to ensure the best success for events at Adrenaline Alley.

JOB TITLE

Participation and Events Officer

Criteria

Essential/Desirable

How Measured

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE

• Educated to a minimum of ‘A’ Level standard or equivalent.

• Relevant experience of event management, preferably but not essentially within a sport, leisure or recreational setting.

• Relevant experience of sports development at the participation level.

• Experience of working in the voluntary sector, with understanding of the climate and specific issues facing charitable organisations.

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KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING

• Knowledge of event management issues within the sport and leisure industry.

• Knowledge and understanding of the factors affecting participation in sport, physical activity and active recreation, and how these differ for various sections of the community.

• Knowledge of participation trends within urban sport disciplines.

• Knowledge and understanding of the importance of data collection to guide development work within sport, physical activity and active recreation.

• Understanding of the voluntary sector, in particular the place of social enterprises and charities within the sports industry.

• Understanding of the how a board operates within voluntary sector organisations.

• Knowledge of standard IT packages.

• Understanding of the complexities surrounding urban sport disciplines and their associated provision.

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PERSONAL SKILLS

• Ability to work within a team, and to provide leadership on key areas of work.

• Ability to work proactively and on own initiative.

• Ability to communicate using a variety of mediums and to a range of customers, visitors, staff, organisation stakeholders and wider partners, etc.

• Ability to work with the organisation’s board of director’s, and to hold a positive relationship with them.

• Committed and passionate individual who will ‘go the extra mile’ to deliver results.

• Ability to use a variety of IT packages.

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OTHER

• Commitment to continuous professional development and willingness to attend any relevant development opportunities of use to either yourself or the organisation.

• Clearance through a Criminal Records Bureau check.

• Ability to work unsociable hours as appropriate.

• Ability to travel around the UK and overseas as appropriate.

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