Sports Co-ordinator (School Games and Children and Young People)

Role Responsibility

Active Kent and Medway’s vision is to ‘change lives through sport and physical activity’, and it works with a wide range of partners to help achieve this.

Active Kent and Medway is seeking to appoint a Sports Co-ordinator to support in the effective co-ordination, delivery, marketing and evaluation of the Kent School Games programme. This post will also assist Active Kent and Medway in tackling inactivity and reducing the inequalities Children and Young People face in sport and physical activity. 

This post provides an excellent opportunity for someone with strong communication and organisational skills and who has an interest in sport and physical activity.

Please note this role does not involve any coaching.

KCC is committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the county’s working residents, encouraging applications from people of all ages, abilities, genders, sexual orientations, ethnic backgrounds and faiths, and aspires to create an inclusive workplace where everyone can be themselves at work.

This post is considered by KCC to be a customer-facing position. The Council therefore has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English/Welsh sufficient for the effective performance of the job requirements. The appropriate standards are set out in the Job Description/Person Specification.

This post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure Application to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Closing Date: Monday 15^th July Interview Date: Friday 26^th July

Additional Information:

To view and download the job description and person specification for this role and to apply please visit the KCC jobs site here or go to https://jobs.kent.gov.uk/ and search for reference REF/TP/28494/10897