Job Vacancies

• Assistant Competition Manager (Voluntary Post)

This is a significant sports management role and the volunteer will support the Leicester-Shire and Rutland Sport, Senior Competition Manager and the team of competition managers based around the city, county and Rutland. The team coordinates and supports the delivery of inter schools sport across the area.

Your role will involve working alongside the team to support the delivery of School Sport competitions and county finals.

Roles and responsibilities will include admininstrative support, publicity, promotion and marketing, shared documents and website support, monitoring and evaluation, planning formats and structures for schools competitions, liasining with School Sports Coordinators and Primary Link Teachers and supporting the delivery of school sport competitions.

Skills/QualificationsEssential:

Sound working knowledge of Microsoft Office ie. Word, Excel, powerpoint, Outlook etc. Good organisational, planning and communication skills. A good team player but also willing to work on your own intiative.

Desirable:

Knowledge or skills in any of the following areas; marketing, websites, sports management, , planning and delivery of sport, knowledge of current sporting structures both locally and nationally and a keen interest in sport.

Getting thereThe role will be based at the Sportpark in Loughborough University.

For more information contact Geoff Maltby, Senior Competition Manager, g.maltby@lboro.ac.uk, 01509 564862

• Multi Sports Coaches

Team Sports based at Fulhurst community College run sports sessions for young people every evening and weekend. They would like to recruit a volunteer to support their sessions by helping to plan and run activities and coach some of the sessions. This is a great to earn some really valuable coaching experience. No particular qualifications are needed, however a coaching qualification and/or experience of coaching would be really useful. The role will suit somebody who enjoys working with young people and is confident and outgoing in their approach. Hours are flexible as sessions are held every evening and weekend mornings.

Soft Touch Arts delivers a youth programme called MASH UP on Friday nights at Allexton Youth Club, and at other locations in New Parks and Beaumont Leys on Saturday evenings. The programme provides opportunities for young people to get involved in a wide variety of creative activities, to allow them to build new skills, gain confidence and have some fun. Some of the young people who attend have requested physical activities as part of the programme. A volunteer is needed to run some sports sessions with the group; basketball, multi sports, football etc. The idea would be to work with the group and plan activities that they would like to do.

• Parkrun

Volunteers needed for Leicester’s first Parkrun. Parkrun is a brand new running concept, which is being introduced to Leicester this year for the first time. Parkrun is a weekly running event, over a 5k course, which will take place on a marked route at Braunstone Park every Saturday morning. It’s a great concept and provides a running club experience in an informal way for runners of all shapes, sizes, ages and abilities. Each runner‘s time will be recorded electronically and runners can check their times online and track their progress on the Parkrun website.

For further information on these opportunities please contact Niral Popat, niral.p@valonline.org.uk, 0116 2575041