Closing Date: Sunday 11th May 2025
Salary Range: FC7 £32,437.03 to £40,358.57
Proposed Interview Date: Monday 19th May 2025
Contract Type: Temporary until 31st March 2026
Supporting Statement
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Job Details
Active Schools aims to provide more and higher quality opportunities to take part in sport and physical activity before school, during lunchtime and after school, and to develop effective pathways between schools and sports clubs in the local community.
Fife Council in partnership with sportscotland are delighted to be recruiting for an enthusiastic person to work as an Active Schools Coordinator within the Fife Active Schools team, Education Directorate. The successful candidate will have responsibility for a school cluster, including a primary and secondary remit.
The Role will include:
- Build a sustainable volunteer network for Active Schools within the schools and wider community.
- Provide opportunities for all children to participate in sport and physical activity and enable creation of pathways from the schools to the wider community.
- Increase participation for vulnerable / disadvantaged children & young people by adopting a targeted approach.
- Ensure the effective integration, planning, management and delivery of Active Schools programme including our core offering.
- Embedding the Fife Active Schools 'Young Leadership Pathway' within the cluster and supporting a wide and diverse range of young people into these roles.
- 'A link to the role profile is included below. You will find more information about the job and the type of person we are looking for'
The Person
You will be educated to degree level in a relevant discipline (and/or General Teaching Council (GTC) registered) and / or possess equivalent experience, working with children in an education, sport, health, leisure and / or recreation environment.
Experience in management of projects in education, sport, health, leisure and / or recreation is essential, demonstrating the ability to lead and develop programmes and projects from conception to implementation.
You will be able to identify good practice and promote the role of physical activity incorporating sport, play and wider health & wellbeing practise as a contributor to community development.
It is essential that you are able to show good organisation, interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to work both individually and part of a wider team.
Before confirming your appointment, you will be required to obtain Protection of Vulnerable Groups (PVG) scheme membership through Disclosure Scotland.