Organisation Skateboard GB Salary 65,000 Location Nationwide Contract type Permanent (Full time) Closing date 1 December 2025 Interview date 10 December 2025 Job Description Key Responsibilities
1.Lead the Community Department within SBGB
2. Build and maintain relationships with external stakeholders in community sport who want to engage with skateboarding, ensuring that the culture of the sport is central to any delivery or participation activations.
3. Work with key partners (such as Active Partnerships, Youth Sport Trust and others) to identify opportunities for growth and increase the level of participation, including developing and planning engagement initiatives.
4. Manage team members as relevant, supporting their development and contribution, and ensuring adherence to all SBGB policies and procedures.
5. Lead on equality, diversity and inclusion, ensuring EDI is integrated into SBGB strategy and practice.
6. Oversee and lead on SBGB’s Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan and Diversity and Inclusion Action Group
7. Lead on developing an Adaptive Skateboarding strategic plan.
8. Lead on developing Skateboard GB’s strategic plan for engaging with education including schools, colleges and higher education.
9. Work with colleagues and key stakeholders across all areas of SBGB to ensure EDI initiatives are embedded across the whole of the organisation and best practice is widely shared and communicated.
10. Manage the budget for all Community Department activities
11. Take an active role in the strategic management of the organisation as a member of the Senior Leadership Team (SLT), leading by example in delivering our values.
12. Support and lead on other tasks as required by the business and in consideration of your skills, knowledge, and experience.
Key relationships / interfaces
* The CEO and the Senior Leadership Team
* Three direct reports
* Active Partnerships
* Youth Sport Trust
* Sport England
* Sport Wales
* sportscotland
* StreetGames
* Other key players in the community sport world
Person Specification
Required skills and experience
1. Strategic planning, delivery, monitoring, evaluation and reporting
2. Senior leadership skills
3. Ability to think and act corporately as well as departmentally
4. Effective line management
5. Relationship building, stakeholder management and partnership working
6. Budget management
Required knowledge
7. Detailed knowledge of the sport and physical activity landscape in the UK including Sport England strategies and initiatives
8. Knowledge of EDI programmes, issues and best practice within community sport
9. High level knowledge of skateboarding spaces and places
10. An understanding of the culture of skateboarding and / or other action sports
Other personal characteristics
11. A passion for the development of community sport and activity
12. A passion for and commitment to EDI
13. Personable
14. Persuasive
15. Resilient
16. Tenacious
A full driving licence is preferable for this post.
This Job Description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of duties. It outlines the main purpose of the role and its key responsibilities. It is expected that these, and the duties, will develop in time.
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