Wellington City Council Looking for Play and Active Recreation Project Specialist – 12 Month Fixed Term Opportunity at Wellington Central, Wellington Full Time

• Help support people in the community to be more active
• Bring your experience working with stakeholders and your organisational skills
• One year secondment/fixed term opportunity – Jan to Dec 2023

Kia mahi ngātahi mō Pōneke mō tōna āpōpō | Working together for Wellington’s future.

About the role

The Play and Active Recreation Partnership Specialist works to build partnerships with play, active recreation and community organisations – and deliver projects, programmes and campaigns that grow participation and support people to be more active. You’ll work with organisations to understand barriers to people being more active and how we can support. Primarily, you will be managing the LeisureCard, and all its partnerships, programming and processes. This includes managing 30+ partners, activations such as guided walks, and the LeisureCard newsletter and ongoing communications.

This role and the team are human-centred and purpose driven – the team are passionate about improving community engagement with sport and recreation, using parks, open spaces and facilities.

About you

This role would suit someone with experience engaging with stakeholders and the community, as well as someone with project coordination/management skills. You’ll be passionate about advocacy and understanding minority groups and vulnerable people in the community, especially disabled people. You might have a background in recreation, community events or social services. You will be both highly empathetic and delivery focused, with excellent planning, organisation and time management skills.

About us

Wellington City Council’s Parks, Sport and Recreation Business Unit (PSR) is a high performing, multifunctional unit responsible for a wide range of business outputs. We provide indoor and outdoor sport, recreation and play opportunities, protect and enhance our natural environment and work in partnership with our sporting, recreation and environmental communities to contribute to Wellington’s reputation as an active, healthy and attractive place to live, work, play and visit.

This role is part of the Community Partnerships team in PSR. We work with internal and external partners to develop new products, programmes and services that promote parks and open spaces and get more people engaged in sport & recreation, using parks, open spaces and facilities.

This is a one year fixed term/secondment opportunity to start in January 2023.

Please note you will need a full, clean drivers licence for this role to enable you to visit partners.

For more information about the role, please review the position description or contact Alexi Trenouth, Play & Active Recreation Partnership Lead – [email protected] – if you have any questions.

Applications close 13 November 2022 – all applications must be submitted online.