Derby Place Partnership Neighbourhood Lead

Derby Place Partnership Neighbourhood Lead

Purpose of the role

This role will be based in Derby initially but may change subject to the needs of the role.

This role has two main purposes

Place - work in Derby, in communities and neighbourhoods experiencing the greatest inequalities. This is to facilitate an understanding of the people who live there, the organisations that work there, and how being active does or doesn't fit it. Then use this insight and learn to work with organisations and residents to develop new or support existing activities and behaviours to encourage people in these communities to move more. This will include working out how, with residents and community partners, national and local programmes can support the needs in the place.

Theme - support a key area of work across the whole organisation, working with colleagues and partners to agree approaches, plans and make new relationships. Examples of themed work areas include environment, health, Children & Young People inequalities and investment, etc. Neighbourhood Leads need to understand our communities and neighbourhoods, connect with people, and enable change.

To find out more about the Derby Place Partnership work, click here Derby Place Partnership

Derby Place Partnership Neighbourhood Lead will have the following areas of responsibility

Grow our understanding of people and communities

Build and maintain relationships with community and public sector organisations working in the places where people experiencing the greatest inequalities live and find and attend the relevant networks and groups to do this. Through these relationships, deepen our understanding about what supports or stops people who live in these communities and neighbourhood from moving more. Listen to their lived experience, motivations and barriers.

Capture and share what you are seeing and hearing. This might be through regular internal reports, through conversations with your colleagues and with other organisations, locally, regionally, and nationally.

Identify stories about people and communities' lived experience of everyday movement. Work with our marketing team to creatively capture and share this.

Support community organisations and partners to understand and follow an insight-led approach that uses learning to make future decisions in their work.

Support and develop people and organisations

Identify and support the leaders within communities who can influence others to move more. Identify what support/training would help them to do more and help them access this. Share this insight with local partners to inform decision making and practice.

Encourage and enable people and community organisations to be involved in designing opportunities and services that are right for them. Open doors for them to join in or share their insight and voice in the meetings you attend.

Bring people and community organisations together to discuss how they could collaborate to encourage people in their neighbourhood to move more. Support them to work out what role they can play and what help they may need.

Create opportunities for community organisations to share and evaluate their experiences and learn together. Support them to capture this to help improve and/or adapt their services and activities.

Support the Geographic Lead working in your places to deliver the Sport England-funded place work and other ongoing work with partners in the districts.

Target and align investment

Support new and existing community organisations to use their resources where insight shows the need is greatest.

Support new and existing community organisations to apply for new funding (from Sport England and other funders) to meet the identified needs in our places, working alongside APT’s Funding Lead.

Reduce duplication, help join up local health and physical activity work, and initiatives in communities experiencing the greatest inequalities.

Organisational delivery

Provide vision, leadership and commitment in safeguarding, equity and diversity matters, with internal and external colleagues and stakeholders.

Be accountable for the achievement of identified actions in the annual operational plan and regularly record change on APT systems.

Support the management of external contracts e.g. with external consultants, for programme delivery, adhering to organisational financial policies and procedures.

Provide vision, leadership and commitment in safeguarding, equity and diversity matters, with colleagues, community partners and stakeholders.