Education & Community Development Manager

Reference Number: XL226

Closing Date: 16th April 2025

Location: Xcel Leisure Centre

Hours: 37.5 hours

Rate of Pay: £35K – £37k

About the role:

CVLife are looking for an enthusiastic and driven Community Development Manager to help achieve our promise to invest in and further develop our work with communities. You will engage with partner organisations and communities to co-design, develop and implement high quality community and education programmes and projects.  You will be responsible for identifying and applying for external funding opportunities, and managing, monitoring and evaluating the associated programmes against annual financial targets.

The successful candidate will have a passion for community engagement and experience in managing budgets, performance and a team who can successfully deliver.  

Skills, Knowledge, and Experience:

• Experience of community development working and project management.
• Experience of budget control and grant programme management.
• Experience of leading and managing performance of a service and a team.
• Highly organised and proficient in Microsoft Office applications.

Flexibility is required to work evenings & weekends as and when required due to needs of the role.

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DBS Clearance will be required for the successful candidate. 
Please click on this link for further details: https://cvlife.co.uk/dbs/ 

Job Description

Reporting to: Head of Community Development

Responsible for: Community Development and Education Team

Scope

Coventry Sports Foundation and Culture Coventry Trust are operating as CV Life, so that the scope of this Job Description as a CV Life document extends to cover the employment contracts held with either Coventry Sports Foundation or Culture Coventry Trust.

Overall purpose and objective of the role

The Education and Community Development Manager will be a pivotal role in helping CV Life to achieve its promise to invest in our work with communities. This role has responsibility to engage with communities to co-design, develop and implement high quality community and education programmes and projects. The role will be responsible for the identification of external funding opportunities and management, monitoring and evaluation of the associated programmes.

This position falls within a shared-services working arrangement agreed between the respective Boards of Directors of Culture Coventry Trust and Coventry Sports Foundation, which allows for the sharing of posts and associated services where appropriate and of benefit to the work of both organisations.

Main duties of the role:

1. The ability to develop and oversee project and programmes strategically based on national, regional, local and organisational insight and strategies.
2. The skill to identify and work effectively with a variety of partners to provide excellent opportunities for local communities and schools.
3. The development and implementation of a framework for the commissioning of partners to deliver targeted activities.
4. To adopt a co-production approach with communities in the development of programmes and activities.
5. To develop, enhance and explore cross-cutting opportunities for existing CV Life education offer
6. To be responsible for high quality provision of across the range of community and education projects and programmes.
7. To work alongside the Head of Community Development on the production of the annual Coventry Sports Foundation Business and associated Action plans.
8. The ability to successfully monitor and demonstrate the success of projects and programmes through feedback, surveys and other assessment tools to ensure that programmes achieve their objectives.
9. The compiling of timely and accurate reports to satisfy the requirement of funders and effectively demonstrate impact.
10. To keep up to date with trends, research and new methods with Community Development and Education.
11. To be responsible for the Line management and professional development of the Community Development and Education team, adapting your style depending on the needs of your team
12. The capability to review teams structures and make recommendations and manage change to achieve better community and education outcomes
13. To actively promote and market all Community Development and Education services, to raise the profile of the department and demonstrate its value to target audiences.
14. To be responsible for recruitment within the Community Development and Education teams , ensuring coordination with Swimming Development manager and the Education team on shared resources where appropriate.
15. To develop a range of relevant key performance indicators and provide monthly and quarterly reports on the performance of community development programmes to the Head of Community Development.
16. To maintain all relevant administrative records and reports and to be responsible for setting up new systems and processes relative to Community and Education programmes.
17. To ensure high standards of customer care at all times, and to respond to all customer enquiries/complaints effectively and efficiently.
18. To lead the planning and development of the annual budget for community development programmes.
19. Responsibly for the financial controls within Community Development and the ongoing monitoring of agreed budgets and reporting on variances.
20. To become a Designated Safeguarding Lead and attend all relevant training and meetings.

This job description is neither exhaustive nor exclusive and may be reviewed and updated depending upon operational requirements and staffing levels.

Responsibilities for all employees

• To embrace and lead by example on the Company’s key values of PRIDE, PASSION and PERFORMANCE or those that might at any time be subsequently re-defined.
• To undertake all duties and fully comply with all of the Company’s general standards and those relating to the specific requirements of the role.
• To carry out tasks at a range of sites that are either operated or managed by the Companies / Trusts or where services are delivered by the Companies / Trusts 
• To be involved in any aspects or opportunities for sharing of good practice, expertise and responsibilities within the Companies / Trusts. To generally help promote the work and public image of the Companies / Trusts, always maintaining high standards of customer service and personal appearance. 
• To attend and fully engage with all internal training and development requirements and opportunities, and maintain such qualifications as required by the demands of the role.
• To interact positively with customers adopting a friendly and professional approach at all times.
• To support the Company’s commitment to providing a safe environment for children, young people ad vulnerable adults, ensuring awareness of the Company’s Safeguarding Policy, Procedures and Practice Guidance, and to be vigilant, reporting any safeguarding concerns without delay. 
• To comply with the General Data Protection Regulations when dealing with, maintaining, sharing and storing information.
• To undertake other duties as specified, which are appropriate to the qualifications, experience and general level of the post.
• To co-operate with managers and colleagues to ensure environmental responsibilities are complied with.

Person Specification

Essential Personal Attributes

• Excellent communicator to various levels of internal and external representation.
• Adaptable and approachable.
• High levels of self-motivation and organisation.
• Enthusiastic and confident.
• Supportive qualities that will encourage staff in their pursuit of personal goals.
• Ability to be positively persuasive and motivate individuals and teams.
• Professional pride.
• Mentoring skills for more junior members of staff.

Essential Knowledge and Experience

• Experience of Community Development working
• Experience of Project Management
• Experience of financial controls
• Experience of monitoring Quality Assurance Systems
• Preferably experience of dealing with safeguarding issues
• Preferably Health & Safety Qualification

Essential Qualifications

• NGB Level 3 qualification required
• First Aid at Work
• Safeguarding
• Community Development / Health and Social Care related field desirable 
• Management qualifications preferable

Essential Special Skills

• Good communication skills that allow you to inform, help and advise.
• Consultative leadership and people management skills.
• Ability to work on own initiative & lead a team of people.
• Ability to encourage and motivate others.
• Ability to work and make decisions in unsupervised settings.
• Organisational, planning and administration skills.
• Good customer care skills.
• Presentation skills.
• Effective report writing skills.
• Ability to meet targets and deadlines.
• High standards of accuracy and attention to detail.

Special Circumstances

• Interest in community and sports development.
• Ability to work unsociable hours/weekends and be on call to attend at short notice.
• Ability to travel between sites.
• Interest in working with underrepresented and disadvantaged community groups/individuals.
• Enhanced DBS Clearance

If you have any enquires, please contact our Human Resources Team by emailing recruitment@cvlife.co.uk