Community Sports Hub Co-ordinator

Job Description

Based at Forfar Library, 50-56 West High Street, Forfar.

As part of our growing Community Sport Team, this second Community Sport Hubs Co‑ordinator post will strengthen our ability to inspire healthy, active and creative lifestyle choices across Angus. Our work is all about people, and this role plays a key part in supporting local communities to thrive.

You will work closely with community clubs, groups and partner organisations to develop Community Sport Hubs as a way of improving health and wellbeing, reducing inequalities, and increasing opportunities for people to be active. A central focus of the role is helping clubs and physical activity providers to develop as strong, safe, sustainable and inclusive organisations, ensuring they can offer high‑quality opportunities for everyone.

You will also work collaboratively with colleagues across all ANGUSalive service areas and business units to provide the best customer experience for local communities as well as visitors to Angus, deliver innovative services and further our charitable objectives.

To do well in this role you will be able to demonstrate our key behaviors in customer service excellence, continuous improvement, engaged workforce, innovative services and leadership.

A friendly outgoing personality and the ability to use your initiative are essential. You will bring skills, knowledge and experience of implementing sport and physical activity programmes, engaging with community groups to understand local need and the ability to work in partnership with various agencies in collating and gathering data to support the development of sport and physical activity opportunities for customers of all ages.

Are you adaptable and resilient, innovative and enthusiastic, ambitious and high performing, customer and results focused, hardworking and willing to learn. This could be the job for you to make a difference to your local community.

You'll find working with our customers, colleagues and partners is interesting and varied as well as providing an exciting opportunity for you to help shape the future of countryside services in Angus. What's more, ANGUSalive offers our employees an excellent rewards package which includes a generous holiday allowance and free bACTIVE membership.

If you have any questions about the role or would like an informal discussion, please contact Ross Smith, Community Sport Physical Activity Lead, on 07788 970411 or email ross.smith@angusalive.scot.

This job is temporary until no later than 30th June 2028.

Please note interviews will be held - to be confirmed

Requirements

You must have the ability to become a member of the PVG Scheme.

Please refer to job outline and person specification for further details and requirements for this job.

The Individual

We are happy to discuss flexible working during the recruitment process for this position. This means we are open to a conversation about working patterns and the flexibility that is available for this role whilst managing the workload.

We offer a guaranteed job interview to the following people who meet the essential criteria on application for a job:

Those with disabilities, recognised caring responsibilities and care experienced young people. This also applies to our own employees with caring responsibilities, young people on apprenticeships and placements who meet the essential criteria for the job.