Job Description
Job Title: / Campus Football ActivatorFaculty/Department: / Sports & Fitness Centre
Reporting to: / Sports Development Manager
Duration: / Until 15 May 2015
Job Family: / Administration
Pay Band: / 2
Benchmark Profile: / Administrator Band 2
CRB Disclosure requirement: / N/A
Vacancy Reference: / CA0048
Details Specific to the Post
Background and Context
The Sports and Fitness Centre provides extensive high quality facilities on the Hull Campus catering for the needs of students, staff and community. It has a recently refurbished fitness centre as well as a wide range of indoor and outdoor leisure facilities, including: Sports hall, studio, seminar room, external artificial surfaces, and grass pitches. The Sports Development Team are based within the Sports & Fitness Centre and provide through, a wide sustainable programme and calendar of participation level sports activity. Encouraging and enabling students of the University of Hull at both the Hull and Scarborough Campuses to participate in sport, increasing the level of sports participation while ensuring clear defined exit routes to foster lifelong sporting habits.
Specific Duties and Responsibilities of the post
The University of Hull has been successful in an application to BUCS to fund a Campus Football Activator. Based within the University of Hull Sports Development team the Campus Football Activator will assist the team to develop the Football and Futsal programme at the University of Hull. The role will focus on enhancing the current Intramural Football programme, providing recreational football opportunities and recruiting new volunteers and officials all across both the Hull Campus and Cottingham Halls of residence.
The role holder will be a student of the University. This role will be supervised on a daily basis and the role holder will be provided with a work plan to achieve the desired outcomes.
Learning Outcomes:
· Experience of working in a development role
· Experience of developing partnerships with groups external and internal to the University
· Experience of planning and membership development
· Opportunity to be creative and generate new ideas
· Opportunity to work as part of a team
Benefits:
• Opportunity to gain experience and develop employability skills in a Sports Development environment
• Opportunity to work with the East Riding County Football Association providing an insight to a local County FA and the wider FA National Game Strategy
• Mentor support from Sports Development professionals including employability skills mapping
• Access to the Football Futures development programme
• Access to one FA football qualification
• Full branded kit provided
• Membership to the University of Hull Sports & Fitness Centre.
GENERIC JOB DESCRIPTION
The job duties and responsibilities listed below are intended to describe the general nature of the role. The duties and responsibilities and the balance between the elements in the role may change or vary over time depending on the specific needs at a specific point in time or due to changing needs in the department. Candidates should note that there may not be an immediate requirement to carry out all the activities listed below.
Overall Purpose of the Role
· Roles at this level are involved in work that is prescribed and reactive, performing straightforward tasks within a given set of duties
· The role holder will:
o Work as part of a team to provide administrative support to staff, students and more senior colleagues
o Be aware of basic principles and practice and have an understanding of this type of work gained through on-the-job training
o Under direct supervision within existing established routines and procedures
Main Work Activities
Communication
· Answer the telephone and assist callers with their queries; to take and forward messages as necessary
Teamwork
· Under the guidance of a team leader, where necessary provide day-to-day support to other members of staff and members of staff new to the work area
Service Delivery
· Assist the Sports Development Team to promote and provide football and futsal opportunities at the University of Hull
· Coordinate the Intramural fixtures through an online fixture management tool
· Alongside the Sports Development team to promote through promotion activity the Just Play Football and Futsal on the Campus and at the Halls of residence.
· Help deliver a welcome football festival at the Halls in Semester 1 under guidance of the Sport Development Team. Registering teams and coordinating the event itinerary.
· Help grow the numbers of small sided teams playing in the intramural leagues by recruiting 6 new teams (44 players) through raising awareness of the leagues through appropriate medias as guided by Sports Development.
· The role holder will assist the Sport Development team to:
o Establish an Inter hall football league
o Recruit Mars Just Play coordinators
o Recruit new and existing referees in to the Intramural football leagues
o Explore sponsorship opportunities for the Intramural football programme.
o Consult with female students to develop the female football offer at the University of Hull.
Additionally the post holder will be required to:
· Fulfil the employees’ duties described in the University’s health and safety policies andco-operate with the health and safety arrangements in place within the department. May be required to undertake specific health and safety roles on request e.g. Display screen equipment assessor, departmental safety officer, fire warden
· Show a commitment to diversity, equal opportunities and anti-discriminatory practices This includes undertaking mandatory equality and diversity training
· Comply with University regulations, policies and procedures
COMPETENCY SPECIFICATION
To fulfil your role, you will need certain knowledge, skills and competencies. The following competency specification provides a framework within which your performance will be assessed. The interview assessment may include, for example, testing on IT skills.
. The Competencies set out below are essential and are core requirements needed to perform the role and any candidate who fails the requirement will not be taken forward for further assessment or to interview.
Competency / Identified byKnowledge and Experience
Must be student of the University of Hull
Has knowledge and experience of working in a coaching or sports development environment / Application/Interview
Application/Interview
Can demonstrate knowledge of safeguarding and equity in sport. / Application/Interview
The ability to use social media to communicate with student population / Application/Interview
Enthusiastic about Football and Futsal and have the skill to transfer this to others at the University of Hull / Application/Interview
Evidence of successfully planning and delivering club/society based activities
/ Application/Interview
Can demonstrate IT literacy with an ability to learn new systems and software / Application/Interview
Communication (Oral)
Can demonstrate the ability to exchange basic information promptly and in a courteous and effective manner to students, colleagues, line managers and external contacts. / Application/Interview
Communication (Written)
Can demonstrate the ability to summarise Information accurately, in a well structured, clear and concise form. / Application/Test
Teamwork and Motivation
Can demonstrate the ability to work effectively as part of a team. Is willing to provide cover for colleagues and acts in a supportive manner. / Application/Interview
Service Delivery
Has knowledge and understanding of services available to users of this and related areas of work and ensures that the experience of each customer is positive and satisfactory. / Application/Interview
Generic Job Description Template
Administrator Band 2
Version 2
February 2013