Sport and Physical Activity Welfare Lead Greater Manchester Moving

Location: Manchester with flexible working.

Salary: £34,314 - £39,513 p.a., depending on skills and experience (salary to be at entry-level except in exceptional circumstances).

Hours: 37 hours per week

Closing date: September 28, 2025

Overview

To achieve the mission of active lives for all, Greater Manchester needs a wide and inclusive range of environments and activities that support the wellbeing of people of all ages, backgrounds and identities to enjoy an active life, with positive experiences.

We are seeking to recruit an individual with purpose, passion and integrity to strengthen and champion good welfare and safeguarding standards and practice for clubs, youth and community groups and other organisations delivering all forms of movement, physical activity and sport.

Greater Manchester Moving is the Greater Manchester charity committed to changing lives by inspiring a healthier future in Greater Manchester through moving more, sport and physical activity. We play a strategic leadership role in support of the Greater Manchester wide movement for movement.

Responsibilities

• Play a leading, supporting and connecting role to strengthen and champion good welfare and safeguarding standards and practice for clubs, youth and community groups and other organisations delivering all forms of movement, physical activity and sport. The role forms part of a national network of Sport Welfare Officers.
• Contribute to developing a vision to build and foster relationships with and between people, communities and system partners to enable a whole-system approach to supporting the development of community networks, activities and opportunities to move more and tackle inequality.
• Unite people from diverse backgrounds around a shared vision and work with others to help people connect, support and lead across sectors, organisations and communities to achieve the ten-year GM Moving in Action ambitions.
• Join a high-performing Active Partnership team working with a network committed to making positive change through physical activity, sport and movement.
• Support flexible working arrangements, including potential job shares, secondments and reduced hours as part of organisational policy.

Qualifications and requirements

• Knowledge, skills and experience to play a leading, supporting and connecting role in welfare and safeguarding across clubs, youth and community groups and other organisations delivering movement, physical activity and sport.
• Ability to work with diverse communities and stakeholders and to collaborate across sectors and partners.
• Willingness to work occasional evenings and weekends as required.

Working arrangements

This is a full-time role (37 hours per week), with flexibility to consider job shares, secondments or reduced hours. Working days are predominantly Monday to Friday, with occasional evening/weekend work. Permanent office space is at the National Squash Centre in Manchester, with regular team and co-working days across Greater Manchester and blended homeworking. We trust you to work in a way that suits you and enables productivity and happiness.

Greater Manchester Moving is committed to equal opportunities and promoting diversity. We aspire to have a workforce that reflects and understands the communities we work with, and we particularly welcome applicants from underrepresented groups.

For further information about this post, please contact Holly Grimes, Strategic Lead Sport Partnerships:

Closing date for applications: Sunday 28 September 2025, 5pm

Interview date: Wednesday 8 October 2025 (If you're unavailable on this date, please let us know when submitting your application)

Please return your completed application form and equal opportunities monitoring form by email, with the job title in the subject box, to: