We are hiring - Sports Welfare Managers
Rise is recruiting two new posts to support organisations and associations with keeping children and adults safe in sport.
We’re looking for two Sport Welfare Managers to lead Rise’s safeguarding work across the area, predominantly supporting NGBs, Sports Club Welfare Officers and local community organisations with improving their safeguarding policies and practices.
The Whyte Review, published in July 2022, questioned the level of safeguarding responsibility delegated to volunteers at a regional/local level.
Sport England’ s policy response, published with UK Sport in January 2023, committed to fund a professional, national network of Sport Welfare Officers across England, with at least one in each county/sub-region.
For the Northumberland and Tyne & Wear region, these two Sport Welfare Officers will be employed by Rise, the active partnership for the area.
One of the roles will cover the North of Tyne area (Northumberland, Newcastle-upon-Tyne and North Tyneside) and the other will operate in the South of Tyne area (Gateshead, Sunderland, and South Tyneside).
The roles will lead Rise’s safeguarding work across the area, predominantly supporting NGBs, Sports Club Welfare Officers and local community organisations with improving their safeguarding policies and practices, understanding all aspects of welfare (including, inter alia, the impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and trauma informed practice) and supporting cultural change to create safer and more open and welcoming environments.
These vacancies close on 30 November 2023.