Active Schools Manager

Job Description

The Active Schools Manager provides strategic and operational leadership of the Active Schools Programme across the Stirling Council area, supporting children and young people to be more active, more often, and to establish lifelong healthy habits. The role leads the development and delivery of school based and community based physical activity opportunities aligned to: • Stirling’s Sport, Physical Activity & Wellbeing Strategy. • Stirling Council’s Education Service Strategic Plan. • Stirling Children’s Services Plan (key workstream). • sportscotland’s Corporate Plan. This role is currently fixed term until 31 December 2027. Interviews will most likely take place week commencing Monday 30 November 2026.

Requirements

• Degree-level education or GTCS registration. • Knowledge of the Active Schools Network. • Knowledge of local, regional and national sports policy and structures. • Experience in managing sport and physical activity programmes in education or community. • Experience in communications, PR and social media. • Experience in partnership working. • Strategic and operational awareness. • Experience in data-informed planning. • Experience in primary and secondary schools. • Excellent verbal and written communication, influencing and negotiation skills. • Ability to lead and motivate others. • Ability to plan, prioritise, meet deadlines and work independently under pressure. • Ability to work effectively as part of a team. • Ability to lead and develop a team. • Ability to influence others to improve performance. • Flexible approach to work. • Experience in partnership working. • Resilience and confidence in handling challenges.

Responsibilities

1. Lead Active Stirling’s contribution to Stirling’s Children’s Services Plan 2. Lead the engagement of schools’ work in developing sport and physical activity opportunities for their pupils and contributing to Stirling’s Sport Physical Activity and Health Living Strategy 3. Lead, manage, and continuously develop the Active Schools workforce, fostering a high-performing team capable of delivering impactful sport and physical activity outcomes across Stirling. 4. Lead and manage a portfolio of key partnerships, including all Stirling Council schools, ensuring strong, collaborative relationships that support the delivery of high-quality sport and physical activity opportunities. 5. Provide strategic leadership across key partnerships, building and sustaining effective relationships with stakeholders to maximise impact, alignment, and collaborative delivery of sport and physical activity outcomes. 6. Lead the strategic reporting and evidencing of the impact of Active Schools and SportAbility, ensuring outputs meet the diverse needs of key stakeholders and clearly demonstrate programme value and outcomes.

The Individual

At Active Stirling we are driven by the desire to improve people’s lives through getting more people, more active, more often. We expect our team to live and breathe our brand values: people centred, ambitious, respect, team spirit and integrity to help our customers and colleagues. This means you’ll be a true team player with a positive attitude joining a team of focused and passionate people where you’ll put people at the heart of what you do making sure a consistent quality service is delivered. As such, you will aim to develop your skills and the service of your business area. You’ll get to work at a great place with excellent learning and development opportunities. Benefits include a competitive salary, pension, generous holidays, and free use of our leisure facilities plus free car parking.