Hours: 2 days a week, based on a secondment model involving a collaboration agreement with your host organisation. Working arrangements can be discussed as we appreciate that working arrangements may differ between employing organisations.

Duration: 12 months – December 2025 to end of November 2026. (Potential for an extension exists dependent on future funding and action plans)

Salary: £39,862 to £42,839 pro-rata (Negotiable)

Working Arrangements: 1 day per week agile working, with Thursday (TBC) based in the Preston Place Partnership Office at Fulwood Leisure Centre. The postholder will be required to spend a significant amount of time supporting work with stakeholders and communities across Preston.

Closing Date:  Sunday 30th November 2025 at midnight

Interviews: Friday 12th December 2025

Preston is one of 80 Sport England Place Expansion localities, who will be bringing stakeholders and communities together to look to address the challenges of physical inactivity and support people to move more. As part of the work to date several focus areas have been identified for Preston, these are Children and Young People, Places and Spaces to be Active, Health and Messaging related to physical activity. Over the next twelve months we will collectively be diving deeper into all of these themes to understand how future work needs to be focused, what are the enablers for change and what are the barriers that we need to think about addressing.

To progress this work, we are excited to announce we have an opportunity for an individual to work as one of three Workstream Leads for the Children and Young People area, through a shared role model. The model will see the postholder remain employed by their current employers and work for a fully funded and agreed amount of time as part of the Preston Place Partnership team.

About the Role

The postholder will work closely with the two other Children and Young People’s leads, stakeholders and community to support the shaping of and subsequent delivery of work relating to supporting Children and Young People in Preston to have the opportunity to move more.

Key elements of the role include:

• Working closely with stakeholders and children and young people to support conversations to gain a greater understanding of the barriers, enablers and necessary changes to support children and young people in Preston to move more.
• Supporting children and young people to have a voice throughout this work, ensuring they have the space and time to design, shape and lead some of the work.
• Supporting the collaborative design of an action plan/s relating to children and young people using specific knowledge and insight gained relating to children and young people.
• Supporting alongside the delivery of test and learn activity based on the insight that has been gained.
• Working with the Communications Lead to produce content that is easily digestible and relevant to a range of audiences, including reporting to Sport England.
• Working with the Evaluation and Learning Lead to record key findings and insights.
• Building trusted relationships with stakeholders to lay the foundations for long term change that will increase the profile and prioritisation of movement and physical activity for children and young people and their care givers .
• Working collaboratively with the Place Programme Manager, other Thematic Leads and Strategic Leads from Active Lancashire & Preston City Council to share all relevant insights and opportunities that contribute to the development phase and progress the application to full award.

About the person

The person we are looking for should:

• Have a passion for working with children and young people and supporting them to have a voice in work that relates to them.
• Have the ability to develop trusted relationships with key stakeholders.
• Have the ability to bring together a wide range of people and support them to collaborate and connect. Quietly leading from the sidelines through supporting, facilitating and enabling.
• Be an excellent communicator with the ability to flex their approach to the audience they are working with to ensure things are easily understood.
• Have the ability to interpret learning and insight to support the production of appropriate plans that will support children and young people in Preston to move more.
• Have an understanding of the current physical activity landscape, including policies and national guidelines, along with an understanding of an area relating to children and young people. This could be early years, education or working in community.
• Have experience of working with children and young people.
• Open minded to new ways of working, willingness to adopt alternative approaches and a desire to embed and share new learnings and approaches within their host organisation.

Please note that an enhanced DBS will be required for this role.

If you or someone within your organisation is interested, has the skills we are looking for, and whose employer would support a shared role with the Preston Place Partnership, we’d encourage you to apply.

To apply please submit a copy of your CV with a cover letter that is no more than two pages long, explaining why you feel you could deliver the key elements of the role and meet the skills and capabilities we are looking for from the postholder, to pblythin@activelancashire.org.uk .

If you would like an informal discussion about this role or have any questions, please contact Paul Blythin, Director of Health and Skills at Active Lancashire on pblythin@activelancashire.org.uk or 07549 774563.