About the role

Assistant Relationship Manager

Fixed Term, Full Time

Up to £39,104 per annum

Location: Essex

Working Style: Anywhere worker

Closing Date: 25th May 2023

This is an exciting role as part of the Active Essex Relationship Team, suitable for an enthusiastic candidate who is passionate about changing the lives of communities across Mid Essex and contributing to the Sport and Physical Activity strategic priority.

This is a hybrid role, where you will be expected to travel to meet partners, attend events and work from County Hall, Chelmsford regularly. This can be discussed further at interview.

About Active Essex

Active Essex is positioned within Essex County Council’s Public Health function and is the strategic lead for sport and physical activity across Essex, Southend and Thurrock.

In July 2021, Active Essex launched “Fit for the Future” a ground-breaking 10-year vison for physical activity and sport owned by the whole Essex eco-system. This translates into implementation and delivery via a strategic priority and place-based approach way of working.

Active Essex is passionate about transforming lives and communities through physical activity and sport.

We are adventurous and forward-thinking, committed to continuous learning and development. We value a spirit of innovation to inspire the creation of new ideas and new approaches that are shared with our partners.

We believe profoundly that everyone should have the right to benefit from physical activity and sport regardless of age, gender, sexuality, ethnic background, or ability and are committed to working with others to achieve our vision.

Please read our Equality Statement

Please read our Race Equality Commitment

The Role

Active Essex is recruiting an Assistant Relationship Manager to drive the work of the place-based, relationship team in Mid Essex (Chelmsford, Braintree & Maldon) and support the Sport & Physical Activity Sector strategic priority.

Key Responsibilities

Reporting to the Mid Essex Relationship Manager / Strategic Lead for Sport & Physical Activity, the role duties will include:

Place-Based:

• Operational management of projects and programmes outlined in the Delivery Plan for Mid Essex.
• Providing reporting and impact data on the above as requested
• Responsible for establishing strong relationships with key stakeholders across Mid Essex, influencing and making the case for sport and physical activity.
• Responsible for ensuring services are co-designed with local partners, joining up of resources and using customer/community insight and feedback to identify service improvements and future planning.
• Taking an active role in local boards, forum, meetings or events, representing Active Essex.
• Ensure our work strengthens, unifies, and improves community cohesion, breaking down barriers and addressing inequalities.

Strategic Priority:

• Supporting the Sport & Physical Activity Implementation Plan, working across the business with our place-based Relationship Hub Teams to embed the theme of work across Essex.
• Supporting development of our People, Culture, Skills framework and building relationships with key stakeholders across people development and skills landscape.
• Responsible for acting as a strong advocate for equality and diversity in sport and physical activity to ensure that equality is embedded in all Active Essex developments.
• Understand the Sport & Physical Activity landscape and support the local infrastructure in Essex to thrive.

General:

• Actively ensure equality, diversity and inclusion is part of the Active Essex culture
• Committed to your personal learning and development and willing to participate in training, wellbeing, or team initiatives.
• Supporting the wider Active Essex Implementation Plan delivery as and when required

Person Specification:

Experience & Knowledge:

• Experience of managing projects; developing, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating delivery plans and budgets for programmes.
• Demonstrable experience of delivering successful projects with clearly defined outcomes at a County and/or local level with evidence of strong impact.
• Proven experience of building effective working relationships with a wide range of local and national stakeholders.
• Experience in a physical activity or community development field
• An awareness of the social, economic, and political context in which Active Essex operates
• Knowledge of the skills and education landscape and the work of CIMSPA.

Skills & Ability:

• Strong organisational skills with the ability to support and lead on multiple projects simultaneously, prioritise and meet deadlines
• Strong relationship management and communication skills and an ability to negotiate and influence, maintaining partner satisfaction.
• The ability to work under pressure and adopt a flexible approach to working methods
• Understanding of how to apply resources to gain maximum impact towards strategic goals.
• Can demonstrate evidence of continuing professional development and knowledge in relevant professional area
• Understanding of the inequalities that exist and the role that physical activity has in positively changing the lives of communities across Essex.

Personality:

• Be open and willing to embrace change, and the constant shifting demands of operating in public services and health & wellbeing.
• Embrace our core values and understand and exhibit relating behaviours.
• Resilience and a proactive approach in the face of challenges.
• A commitment to transparency at all levels of the organisation, as well as understanding when the upmost discretion is required
• Champion and advocate for Active Essex Vision Mission, Objectives and Values.
• A people advocate who believes in creating positive experiences for all in learning cultures.

This role is an Anywhere Worker, working from home (or another location), attending team meetings in the Chelmsford office as and when required.

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Please note that the job role requires you to be mobile throughout an operational area. Therefore, the post holder will need to have a driving licence and access to a vehicle, or the ability to meet the mobility requirements of the role through other means.

Why Essex?

Essex County Council has a location to be proud of. Our 1,300 square miles stretch from Constable Country to the Thames Estuary, from the dynamic M11 corridor to the traditional seaside resorts of Clacton and Walton. England’s oldest town, Colchester, and two of its newest – Basildon and Harlow – are right here. Along with the City of Chelmsford, the county town, they form our major population centres. It means real choice and makes Essex the ideal place for your career. Read more about us here.

Essex County Council is proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. We’re committed to interview all disabled applicants who choose to apply under our Job Interview Scheme if they meet the minimum requirements of the job. Please speak to our Recruiters if you require any reasonable adjustments during the process.

We’re also committed to interview all veterans and care leavers, who meet the minimum requirements of the role for which they are applying.

What you should do next

If you are interested in finding out more about this role, we would love to hear from you. Please apply via the Working for Essex website.

As part of employment with Essex County Council (ECC) should your role require a DBS check you will be required to register with the DBS update service. The DBS update service ensures all registered DBS certificates are kept up to date and allows authorised parties to view the status of your certificate. This is an annual subscription, and you will be responsible for ensuring this is maintained. For further information on the DBS update service please go to https://www.gov.uk/dbs-update-service

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If you have any queries regarding this role, or require anything further, please contact the Resourcing Team on resourcing.team@essex.gov.uk or Hollie Wood for an informal conversation about the role – hollie.wood@activeessex.org 07738 885121.

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