Job Description

An exciting opportunity has become available to become an invaluable part of a new team within Sport and Leisure. The successful candidate will be crucial in delivering against an ambitious Health and Wellbeing Strategy across Ipswich.

If you are passionate about the benefits of sport and physical activity and you like working with people, we would love to hear from you. Through the apprenticeship scheme, you will be able to kick-start your career in the Sport and Leisure industry whilst also making a difference by supporting Ipswich residents to live more active, healthier lives.

Your main duties will include:

• Provide administrative support to the Sport and Leisure team including project support, internal and external communications, social media campaigns, marketing of physical activity and health and wellbeing campaigns and resident and community engagement activities.
• Identify gaps and opportunities that will support and engage Ipswich’s most inactive groups into physical activity. You will be supported to deliver your ideas, set up and deliver sport and physical activity initiatives
• Contribute to the running of day to day activities across sports centres, swimming pools and local community facilities
• Support with connecting residents to sport and physical activities, community groups and information that will help them to be more active. You might do this through telephone or email enquiries or through community engagement activities.

An apprenticeship with us is a great stepping-stone to your career, giving you valuable work experience, a recognised qualification, access to all our employee benefits and your own income.

On top of this, as an apprentice you will take part in the Council’s Apprentice Development Programme, aimed at helping you develop a range of transferable skills including time management, problem solving and decision making. Many of our apprentices go on to get jobs with the Council after their apprenticeship.

We are seeking applicants who are: 

• Able to work as part of a team and have a positive “can do” attitude
• Self-motivated flexible and reliable
• Able to demonstrate good organisational skills and time management
• Willing to learn and undertake training and follow instructions
• Committed to making the most of this apprenticeship opportunity

Hours of work are 37 per week and this role is offered on a fixed term basis.

For more information on this role please contact Bella Colafrancesco via email bella.colafrancesco@ipswich.gov.uk

Please download the Job Description and Person Specification to find out more about this role: Job description and Person specification

As well as a good salary, we offer a career average pension scheme, generous holiday and sick pay entitlements, subsidised parking, public transport discounts, free swimming, cycle purchase scheme, plenty of personal and professional development opportunities, flexible working, hybrid working opportunities, Employee Assistance Programme and the opportunity to work with great colleagues.

The assessment/interview process will be carried out either remotely via Skype for Business or Microsoft Teams or in Person.

Closing date: 12 February 2022