🚀 Engagement and Community Lead - This Girl Can

Job Title: Engagement and Community Lead - This Girl Can Salary: £29, 808 Fixed Term Contract end Date 27/11/2026 Responsible to: Project Manager - Communities and Partnerships Location: Hybrid - pattern to be agreed ( 9 Day Fortnight ) Hours of Work: Full time 36.5hours The Active Wellbeing Society (TAWS) is a community benefit society and cooperative working to develop healthy, happy communities living active and connected lives. Our vision is for a society where people have the autonomy, capacity, resources and skills to become the architects of their own destiny; where our individual wellbeing is recognised as being bound up in our collective responsibility to and dependency on each other; and where all of us feel empowered as agents of social change to make a difference – whether at an individual level or more widely. By working collaboratively with communities we aim to bring about sustainable change at a social, environmental and economic level; to do the social knitting required to create stronger and more resilient communities and to support communities to identify, mitigate and remove the barriers that prevent them from living active and connected lives. In 2023, This Girl Can moved into a new phase of its mission to inspire more women and girls to take part in sport and physical activity – ‘This Girl Can - With You’. The new phase will focus on breaking down the enjoyment gap that exists between men and women participating in physical activity. The Active Wellbeing Society (TAWS) are one of Sport England’s official delivery partners for This Girl Can, leading work on activating the campaign in Birmingham working alongside system partners. We are looking for a Woman and Girls Lead to deliver the ‘This Girl Can - With You’ project across Birmingham. The role includes peer relationships internally within TAWS but to also hold relationships with Sport England, place-based strategic partners (Birmingham City Council , Sport Birmingham) and IWG World Conference on Women & Sport attendees In Unity, United by 2022 Legacy Charity and Saheli Hub . With the aspiration of the role aligning to the IWG Women and Sport programme, IWG World Conference on Women & Sport and European Athletic Championships hosted by Birmingham 2026. In this role of Woman and Girls Lead you will be pivotal in ensuring that the organisation’s contractual obligations and goals are achieved by collaborating with communities and partner organisations in the design and delivery of interventions. You will build connections and co-produce with local communities and key partners , creating activities based on identified need to increase opportunities that are more social, suitable, self-affirming and safe for women and girls. The role will support to connect and share learning across the system and use existing insight to help inform priorities/areas of need. The role will report to the Midlands Regional Lead for Partnerships and New Business Development and be supported and guided by a Steering Group of wider partners, working closely with TAWS West Midlands Delivery Manager and Research and Performance team. We offer our team members a comprehensive staff benefits offering to include: Annual Leave – 38 days! 25 days AL (increasing to 29 days with service) plus 5 wellbeing days and 8 bank holidays. (Pro rata for part time hours) Flexible working, home working and remote working options available Nest Pension – 8% employer contribution - 3% employee contribution. Heath Cash Plan – giving you discounts on everyday healthcare such as dental, optical, physio, prescriptions & more. Employee Assistance Programme (counselling and DRs on call 24hrs a day). Fantastic volunteering opportunities within The Active Wellbeing Society every month.41bf1e1f-b16b-4260-a40a-17c77a06fd15