GLL is looking for a Regional Aquatics Manager to work across various locations, including Bedford, Enfield, North Kesteven, Barnet, Rugby, Hillingdon, East Cambridge, Cambridge, Welwyn and Hatfield. This Regional Aquatics Manager role will oversee all aquatic related work streams for multiple partnerships, reporting into the National Aquatics Manager.
As Regional Aquatics Manager, you will lead a team of Area Swim School Leads to manage the Hub Swim School business. The Regional Aquatics Manager will have overall responsibility for the swim school workforce, business and customer KPIs for your Hub. This is a varied Regional Aquatics Manager role, working in the office and in our Leisure Centres. This Regional Aquatics Manager role requires you to work in London at times and the role will involve UK wide travel. Regional Aquatics Managers track their areas’ income, expenditure and sales in order to ensure our product is profitable and running to a high standard.
What you’ll do.
1. Provide opportunities and access to enable more people to go swimming and enjoy being more active.
2. Oversee Better Swim School in your region, which delivers swimming lessons every week to over 130,000 children across the UK.
3. Manage the workforce development and aquatic strategy in line with Better Swim School
4. Manage relationships effectively and have first rate team management skills.
5. Provide management support to the Areas Swim School Leads, swimming teachers and centre teams ensuring ongoing reviews swim school and establish further ways to expand the programme.
6. Complete various work stream reports, poolside observations of teachers and respond to emails which can be anything from a swimming teacher applicant to queries from Areas Swim School leads.
What do you need?
7. You must have a Level 2 Certificate in teaching swimming,
8. A STA Tutor Qualification and / or Level 3 Award in Education and Training are desirable.
9. Be able to understand the reality of teaching the sport and have the technical knowledge.
10. An understanding and/or experience of working with the STA / Swim England would be beneficial.
As a charitable social enterprise and cooperative owned by our staff, GLL is a unique organisation for you to have a career with!
The basics:
11. This is a Full time permanent position.
12. Hours of work will be negotiated with you in line with the needs of the service, flexible working may be possible, working from home is not possible in this role.
13. We are an accredited Living Wage employer with industry leading rates of pay.
14. We can offer a career, not just a job with extensive Learning & development support available.
15. GLL is Values Driven, not Profit Driven.
16. We work hard to benefit the communities we operate in.
17. As a staff owned organisation you will be given the opportunity to join the Society and have a stake in your business
Additionally GLL offers employees a range of employment benefits:
18. Access to a pension scheme.
19. Health Assurance and access to Counselling services
20. Access to the tax efficient Ride to Work bicycle purchase scheme.
21. Free annual eye tests
22. Discounted nationwide (over 200 centres) inclusive leisure centre membership for you and your partner. This includes GLL Extras!
GLL Society benefits (if you choose to join the Society after your probation period) include:
23. The right to stand for the Society board and to vote for board members to represent you
24. Access to team building and fun events such as Treks, Concerts outings etc
25. Access to a range of benefits exclusive to our people – ask your line manager for details or check out the Intranet