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Active Gloucestershire is a great place to work. Each team member is passionate about their role and is committed to supporting people to live happy and healthy lives. 

Active Gloucestershire is a small team and have a limited number of employment opportunities but when we do, you will find them here.

Our values

At Active Gloucestershire, the way in which we work is as important to us as the outcomes we achieve. Therefore, we would like all our employees to embrace our organisational values and behaviours.

Be Brave, be curious and listen hard, stand shoulder to shoulder, go where the energy is and build relationships of trust. 

Our culture

Our staff are the heart and soul of Active Gloucestershire and they are also our greatest resource, which is why we want to create a workplace where everyone feels valued, supported, inspired and enabled to succeed. Read our People Plan to see how we aim to achieve that. Our culture is all about supporting people’s health and wellbeing. Take a look at our culture handbook to find out more about how we work and how we put our staff first. 

Our latest Vacancies:

Learning, Evaluation and Impact Manager

Hours: 22.5 hours a week

Contract: Fixed term until 31/3/27. Part time (22.5 hours per week). Secondments also welcome. *Further extension subject to funding.

Salary: £35,000 FTE (£21,000 for 22.5 hours per week)

Closing date: Tuesday 8^th July at midday

About the role: Learning, Evaluation and Impact Manager

To support the growth of we can move, Active Gloucestershire are offering the opportunity for an exceptional individual to join our team to drive forward the growth and understanding of the impact of our place-based working and wider change we can move is having across Gloucestershire.

We are seeking a Learning, Evaluation and Impact Manager who thrives on relationship building and understands the diverse and creative approaches needed to understand learning in complex systems. Based within our place team, the role will work with colleagues, local and national organisations to unpick the complexities of working across communities and with specific target audiences, to share what works, what doesn’t, the why and the how, whilst supporting our team to capture learning and demonstrate impact throughout their work.

This role provides significant opportunities to work locally within Gloucestershire and also with national partners, some examples of the opportunities you would have from joining our team are below:

• Be part of a passionate, knowledgeable and collaborative team, where successes are celebrated, and learning is valued as a core way to inform our future work and priorities
• Gain a deeper understanding of the role physical activity can play in wider health and wellbeing outcomes
• Understand how to apply approaches such as behaviour change interventions and whole systems thinking, specifically, how they can lead to long term, sustainable change at a micro and macro scale
• Have the opportunity to work with local and national learning and evaluation specialists, such as Sport England and the National Evaluation and Learning Partnership
• Gain insight into the role of an established infrastructure organisation working locally and nationally, and gain a deeper understanding of we can move’s work across the county

The role, as our Learning, Evaluation and Impact Manager will provide the lead in embedding key learning and evaluation practices across our place-based business area. You will also be a key member of the wider team, supporting our learning and evaluation external partners to embed a framework of learning, evaluation and measurement across the Active Gloucestershire team.

Day to day, you will work within the place-based team and local priority place communities to understand the work that is happening and the impact that is taking place. You will build local relationships of trust, to understand the barriers and enablers to physical activity within areas of Gloucestershire and work alongside regional and national partners to share how the learning from Gloucestershire can contribute towards wider, national or regional priorities.

You will be fundamental in growing our learning and impact capacity and as part of our Sport England place universal partnership you will work with a range of local and national organisations to do this. The role will involve building relationships and partnerships, project management, demonstrating impact and producing recommendations to inform future decision making whilst considering wider systemic barriers and enablers to activity levels and working in a strengths and asset-based way.

Hours and contract term

We are offering the successful candidate the opportunity to join us for an initial fixed term until 31^st March 2027 (which may be extended subject to funding) and to work 22.5 hours per week. We offer flexible working arrangements for colleagues to have individual working patterns, structuring their hours across the week in a way which suits their needs. We are also open to secondment applications for this position.

How to apply

If you are interested in joining our team and working with us, please read our job description and person specification for further information. Upon reading our job description you might not think you tick every box, and that’s okay – if you think this role sounds like a good fit, we’d still love to hear from you.

We adopt an ‘anonymised recruitment’ approach to recruiting new employees, which removes the candidate’s name, age and gender, ensuring that we hire on merit-only basis.

At Active Gloucestershire we don’t just welcome diversity, we champion it. We are committed to promoting equality and challenging discrimination and fully believe that the more diverse our workforce, the richer the perspectives and experiences around the table and ultimately the stronger and better our organisation will be.

We therefore actively encourage applications from all backgrounds, particularly those who are currently underrepresented, including people with disabilities and individuals from ethnically diverse communities

To apply for this role, please send an up to date CV and a supporting statement* which clearly details how your experiences and skills align to our values and meet our person specification to louisesilver@activegloucestershire.org by 12 midday, Tuesday 8^th July. *Alternative application methods are available below**.

Within your supporting statement we would like you to consider the following:

• What attracts you to this role, and why do you think you would be suitable for the role?
• Please share with us some examples of projects that you have supported with learning and evaluation in the past, your role in these and how you shared the impact that they have had?
• How have you managed a range of relationships across various levels of the system before whilst working with them to capture learning?

In addition to this, please also complete the Equal Opportunities Monitoring Form

**We’re committed to inclusive recruitment and want to make sure that applying for this job is easy and straightforward. If this method / the method outlined above, doesn’t work for you, please get in touch. We’d be happy to discuss alternative formats or approaches that suit your needs better.

How to contact us about the position

For an informal conversation about the role please contact Michael Thurlow michaelthurlow@activegloucestershire.org.

Important dates

Closing date: Tuesday 8^th July at midday

Interview date: W/C 14^th July at Active Gloucestershire HQ