Community Sport Programme Coordinator

ICF; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private Medical Insurance

Dental insurance

25 days annual leave

Pension scheme

Life assurance

Job summary

ICF is seeking a proactive programme coordinator in Birmingham to support the development, commissioning and evaluation of place-based sport and physical activity programmes. You will strengthen governance, coordinate partners, and turn local insights into actionable plans that widen participation and improve health, wellbeing and inclusion.

You will work with schools, local authorities and communities, organise meetings, manage data, and help shape targeted interventions to benefit diverse

Qualifications

• Experience supporting projects or programmes in sport, physical activity, public health, community development or related field.
• Highly organised, with proven experience coordinating multiple workstreams across places, ensuring plans, delivery activity and reporting remain aligned.
• Understanding of the UK sport and physical activity landscape and the role of national governing bodies, local authorities, schools, community groups and delivery partners.
• Practical experience of monitoring, evaluation, finance, grants or contracted delivery.
• Confident communication and partnership-working skills with diverse communities and organisations.
• Graduate-level qualification in a relevant discipline or equivalent substantial experience.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate local action plans and delivery activity across community, education, sport, and voluntary-sector partners.
• Support with capturing and sharing learning from grants including applications, milestones, expenditure checks, performance reviews.
• Maintain governance arrangements, risk logs, delivery trackers and reports for internal and external stakeholders.
• Use local data and insights to identify participation and provision gaps and shape targeted interventions.
• Support school funding bids, partnership proposals and business cases for programmes, facilities or workforce initiatives.
• Organise network and partner meetings, workshops and engagement activity and follow through on decisions and actions.
• Contribute to evaluation, assessments, learning reports and case studies that demonstrate outcomes and inform future delivery.

Skills

Project coordination

Stakeholder engagement

Data analysis

Public health knowledge

Partnership working

Education

Graduate-level qualification in a relevant discipline

Equivalent substantial experience

Job description

ICF is seeking a proactive programme coordinator in Birmingham to support the development, commissioning and evaluation of place-based sport and physical activity programmes. You will strengthen governance, coordinate partners, and turn local insights into actionable plans that widen participation and improve health, wellbeing and inclusion.

You will work with schools, local authorities and communities, organise meetings, manage data, and help shape targeted interventions to benefit diverse