Hybrid Sport & Community Programmes Lead

ICF International; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 28,000 - 42,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working policy

Employee wellbeing hub and support

You Matter recognition program

Job summary

ICF seeks a Programme Coordinator to help develop, commission and evaluate place-based sport and physical activity programmes across communities in the UK. You will work closely with schools, local partners and communities to turn insights into action, broaden participation and support health and inclusion outcomes.

The role requires strong organisational skills, cross-sector collaboration, and experience with grants and monitoring.

Qualifications

• Experience supporting projects in sport, physical activity, public health, community development or related field.
• Highly organised with proven experience coordinating multiple workstreams across places.
• Understanding of the UK sport and physical activity landscape and key stakeholders.
• Practical experience in monitoring, evaluation, finance, grants or contracted delivery.
• Confident communication and partnership-building 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 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 interpretation

Grant management

Public health knowledge

Graduate-level qualification

Education

Graduate degree in public health / related field

Tools

MS Excel

Grant management systems

Job description

ICF seeks a Programme Coordinator to help develop, commission and evaluate place-based sport and physical activity programmes across communities in the UK. You will work closely with schools, local partners and communities to turn insights into action, broaden participation and support health and inclusion outcomes.

The role requires strong organisational skills, cross-sector collaboration, and experience with grants and monitoring.