Place Programme Project Officer

Role Responsibility

Are you passionate about making a real difference? Can you help us create a healthier, happier, more active future for everyone? Active Kent & Medway is looking for a proactive, organised, and collaborative Project Officer to effectively support the coordination, administration, marketing and reporting of our Place Programme.

Active Kent & Medway is one of 43 Active Partnerships in England. We are hosted by Kent County Council and funded by Sport England to tackle inactivity, which is driven by inequalities. We believe in the power of getting ‘more people, more active, more often’ for physical and mental health, as well as individual, social, community and economic development. 

We know that where you live plays a huge part in how active you are. Nationally, Sport England has committed to £250 million over five years into it’s place partnership work. This role will work alongside colleagues, partners and local communities to support the co-ordination and delivery of our Place Expansion Programme work.

You will be responsible for co-ordinating the day-to-day delivery of programme activities, organise development opportunities, monitor and report on deliverables and work with a range of local partners to promote and support programme implementation.

This role will sit within our Strategy, Insight and Marketing team, providing project support to our Place Programme Managers and Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Team. 

This post is considered by KCC to be a customer-facing position. The Council therefore has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English/Welsh sufficient for the effective performance of the job requirements. The appropriate standards are set out in the Job Description/Person Specification.

This post is subject to a Basic Disclosure Application to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Starting salary: £27,852             Contract: Fixed Term Full Time 

Number of Hours: 37 hours per week Contract Ends: March 2027

Location(s): Active Kent & Medway, Worrall House, Kings Hill, West Malling, Kent, (travel required throughout Kent) NB: Hybrid working re: office and home working.

Interview Date: 05/11/2025

Contact Details

For any other queries about this role please contact: 

Andrea Murphy Email: andrea.murphy@kent.gov.uk Phone: 03000 414454

About the Company

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KCC is committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the county's working residents, encouraging applications from people of all ages, abilities, genders, sexual orientations, ethnic backgrounds, faiths and those with caring responsibilities, and aspires to create an inclusive workplace where everyone can be themselves at work.

Please note - if you are interested, please apply soon as possible as the closing date for this advert may be earlier than stated should a number of suitably qualified candidates apply.