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Consultant

Continuum Sport Leisure Ltd
Posted 4 days ago, valid for 17 days
Location

London, Greater London EC3V 3LA, England

Salary

£30,000 per annum

Contract type

Full Time

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  • Continuum is a leading sport and leisure consultancy that seeks a candidate with a minimum of 3 years' experience in the sector.
  • The role involves content production, stakeholder engagement, and strategy development, focusing on enhancing participation in physical activity and sport.
  • Candidates should possess strong communication skills, both verbal and written, and be proficient in ICT, particularly Microsoft Office applications.
  • The successful applicant will earn a competitive salary, although the specific figure is not provided in the job listing.
  • Applications are due by May 12, 2025, and include a CV, application form, and equalities monitoring form.

Continuum is a successful, market leading sport and leisure consultancy company. We provide a wide range of services to all areas of the sport and leisure industry. Our vision is to maximise the social, physical and economic impact of sport and physical activity by strengthening the sector and levering in additional investment. To do this, we are driven, agile, collaborative, inclusive, positive and we always work with integrity.

Established in 2001, we have continued to go from strength to strength. Our work is nationally recognised and we have achieved Sport England Framework Partners status for Grants Management, Strategic Outcomes Planning and Leisure Service Delivery and Needs Assessment (Active Environments). Our service offer includes:

  • High quality programme and project management services.
  • Delivery of national scale programmes on behalf of Sport England and other clients.
  • Content development in the form of guidance notes, toolkits, webpages, blogs, news articles, and supporting the creation of animations and videos.
  • Stakeholder engagement, consultation and relationship management.
  • Strategic planning linked to increasing levels of participation in physical activity and sport, playing pitches, indoor and outdoor sports facilities, and tackling inequalities.
  • Feasibility studies, options appraisals and supporting the development of planning applications.
  • Securing and assessing grant funding.
  • Gathering insight and evaluating the impact of projects, programmes and investments.
  • Interim management.

We have a diverse and ever-expanding Client base from within the public, private and not for profit sectors including; Sport England, National Governing Bodies of sport, Local Authorities, Active Partnerships, national and local charities, leisure operators, educational organisations, sports clubs and groups, and developers.

We are passionate about helping organisations achieve real, lasting results across the sport and leisure sector. If you are too, please read on!

Job Duties

Content production and marketing:

  • Lead on the production and co-production of written content, infographics, reports, numerical analysis and case studies
  • Create and curate content for and manage website content, social media channels, stakeholder communications, and online forums.
  • Lead on the pre and post-production stages of videos and animations.
  • Lead on the development of marketing and communications content and assets.
  • Develop and maintain ongoing relationships with clients communications and marketing teams.

Consultation and Stakeholder Engagement:

  • Develop and maintain trusting, two-way, stakeholder relationships with various stakeholders, clients and other suppliers across the sector.
  • Lead regular engagement activities with key stakeholders to support programme promotion, needs analysis, and the creation of support resources. Develop and lead primary research and consultation exercises via surveys, electronic, face to face, and telephone/video consultation and discussion groups with a range of stakeholders to determine their priorities, needs, views and opinions. Use this to co-design solutions and content. Prepare accurate written notes and follow up actions as relevant.
  • Produce written and numerical analysis of consultation findings for inclusion within client reports, projects and content.
  • Support the preparation and delivery of stakeholders events, communications and online webinars.

Strategy and business planning:

  • Lead and supervise primary and secondary research in relevant subject areas. Use the research as evidence to prepare accurate, high quality written and numerical analysis (for external reporting and evaluation).
  • Lead and support the Consultant team with the production of sport and physical activity strategies, facilities strategies and playing pitch strategies. Prepare action plans to support the successful implementation of strategies and policies.
  • Lead on the production of sports development plans, programmes of use and business plans.
  • Lead on the preparation of applications for capital and revenue projects. Assist with the management of funding programmes including screening and assessing applications, liaison with applicants, preparing decision letters and maintaining accurate records on each application.

Other duties:

  • Manage and assist with the planning and implementation of projects. Support the development and delivery of research methodologies. Manage delivery including input from and relationships with clients, associates, and suppliers.
  • Quality assure client reports and content including publishable documents, guidance notes and videos.
  • Actively review opportunities to improve professionally in the form of training, event attendance and other relevant opportunities.
  • Prepare and deliver presentations.
  • Support the production of tenders, attend interviews if required, and assist in the production of marketing material for company and its clients including: website content, flyers, brochures, videos and social media posts as required.
  • Provide administrative support for other members of the team as and when required.

Person Specification

Qualifications:

  • A minimum of Grade C/5 in GCSE English and Maths or equivalent (essential).
  • A minimum of degree or similar qualification in a subject area that complements our service offer (desirable).

Skills and Experience - Essential:

  • Minimum of 3 years' experience of working in the sport and leisure sector.
  • Experience of working in an advisory capacity on any of the following: content development; stakeholder engagement and consultation; project or programme management; governance; funding applications development, assessment or management; strategy development/implementation; business planning; options analysis; sports development planning; monitoring and evaluation; capacity building or facilities management.
  • Experience of working with, and a sound understanding of, national, regional, and local partners, strategies, policies and plans for sport, physical activity and leisure.
  • Practical knowledge of the wider benefits of sport and physical activity and experience of collating evidence to support the communication of these.
  • Excellent verbal communication skills with the ability to confidently and professionally communicate with people at all levels, conduct face to face and telephone consultations and liaise with organisations and members of the public.
  • Excellent written communication skills with experience of preparing digital communications, written analysis, newsletter style copy, reports and other publishable materials to the highest standards using plain English and referencing relevant evidence.
  • Proficient in the use of ICT and experienced in using Windows packages especially Word, Excel and Powerpoint. The successful candidate will be able to format Word documents and Powerpoint presentations, create and apply formulas in Excel, prepare Excel databases and will be experienced in using search engines to aid research.
  • Strong numeracy skills and experience of analysing numerical datasets.
  • Experience of utilising primary and secondary research tools and techniques for the purposes of consultation and analysis. The successful candidate will have working experience of preparing and analysing questionnaires, conducting interviews, and reviewing historic studies/data sets.
  • Experience of researching and implementing actions linked to tackling equalities, and promoting diversity and inclusion.
  • Excellent listening skills the ability to listen, understand and interpret the needs of clients, partners, colleagues and others.
  • Experience of utilising primary and secondary research tools and techniques for the purposes of consultation, content production and written analysis. The successful candidate will have experience of having prepared and analysed questionnaires, carried out interviews, reviewed historic studies/data sets and produced associated reports.

Skills and Experience - Desirable:

  • Experience of co-designing programmes, projects, solutions, or content with their intended beneficiaries.
  • Experience of marketing/communications (social media / digital content production) in the public, or third sector.
  • Working knowledge of the wider value of sport and an understanding of the various sectors of the leisure industry.
  • Experience supporting the development, maintenance, or content of a website.
  • Experience and skills in leading teams or managing others.
  • Understanding and experience of using Sport Englands planning tools and toolkits.
  • Driver with clean driving licence and access to a car.

Personal Qualities - Essential:

  • Passionate about sport and its ability to improve lives.
  • Passionate about tacking inequalities.
  • Confident communicator.
  • Personable.
  • Well organised and punctual.
  • Dynamic, friendly, team player with the ability to work individually.
  • Hard working and calm under pressure.
  • Analytical with good attention to detail.
  • Loyal and eager to develop within the company.
  • Good telephone manner.
  • Able and willing to work overtime as and where required.

Inclusion:

We pride ourselves on being an open and welcoming organisation. We recognise the value of having a diverse and inclusive workforce. We would especially welcome applications from:

  • People with lived experience of the power of sport and its ability to tackle inequalities and improve lives.
  • People from culturally diverse backgrounds.
  • Members of the LGBTQ+ community.
  • Disabled people.

How to Apply

Please submit:

  • A CV outlining your experience, skills and training/qualifications.
  • A completed Application Form (please email to request).
  • A completed Equalities and Diversity Monitoring and Evaluation Form (please email to request).

Please email the address statedto request the documents and return all completed forms with your CV by the closing date of Monday 12th May 2025. Please note that any applications that do not contain a CV, application form and equalities and diversity monitoring form, cannot not be considered. Applications after this date will not be considered.

All short-listed candidates will be required to undertake a written test and attend an interview in London. Interviews will take place on Tuesday 20th May and Wednesday 21st May 2025.

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