Performance Sport Coordinator

Sheffield Hallam University is looking for passionate and dedicated sport professionals to join our expanding Physical Activity and Sport Service – ‘Sport Hallam.’ We are recruiting a number of roles across our service to strengthen our sporting offer and the impact we make on our students, staff and local community. These roles span across our Sport Development and Sport Operations teams.

• Our Sport Development Team is responsible for developing a range of sports programmes, activities, and events to help deliver an outstanding student experience, from beginners right through to elite athletes.

• Our Sport Operations Team is responsible for delivering a quality user experience across our sport facility portfolio that includes our Sports Park, Athletics Stadium and two on campus gyms and sports halls.

You’ll join a large and friendly team, where you’ll work with a wide range of people to create and deliver a diverse variety of opportunities, services and facilities to enable our students, staff and local community to positively connect with sport and physical activity, be active and support their wellbeing - with opportunities for development and progression. Sport and fitness | Sheffield Hallam University (shu.ac.uk)
The Role Working as part of the Sport Development Team, you will be responsible for developing and delivering a performance sport programmes, initiatives and support to ensure a high quality service to our talented student athletes looking to balance their sporting endeavours with their academic aspirations. Managing multiple priorities, you will be a confident communicator, with strong interpersonal skills to build positive relationships with stakeholders and colleagues. You will also need to demonstrate creativity and flexibility in your approach to your work along with proactively contributing to a can-do culture to deliver performance sport support to our students and stakeholders. We are looking for an organised, team player who can work collaboratively and efficiently to achieve successful outcomes.

Sheffield Hallam welcomes applications from all candidates irrespective of age, pregnancy and maternity, disability, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, religion or belief, or marital or civil partnership status. For this job we particularly welcome applications from minority ethnic applicants who are underrepresented in this area at Sheffield Hallam. Our benefits We offer a diverse range of benefits and opportunities to pursue a rewarding and fulfilling career in a supportive environment. To find out more, please visit The Hallam Deal: Your Benefits. Follow @sheffhallamjobs on Twitter for job alerts and information about what makes this a great place to work. We welcome applications for job-share, part-time and flexible working arrangements Having trouble with your application? Please see our FAQ’s for more information