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Head of Insight
London Sport
To achieve a happier and healthier city, we work in partnership with London’s local authorities and other organisations to provide opportunities for less active adults to be active and for young people to develop a positive physical activity habit for life.
Job Posted- 30 Sep 2024
Status- Full Time
Location- England
Closing date- 13 Oct 2024
Do you believe that being active can change people’s lives?
Do you want to work on projects that will shape the future of London for the better?
Could you help us improve Londoners’ health and happiness by making the capital a more physically active city?
This is an exciting time to be joining London Sport as we launch of our new 2024-27 strategy. Our strategy is underpinned by data, insight and evidence and our work is applied from grass roots through to influencing and advocacy at policy level.
As Head of Insight you are central to driving this vision internally and to present our work and work with stakeholders externally. London Sport provides insight and best practice to support the community sport sector to address inactivity, we also advocate for funding and system change to address the inequalities experienced by minority and disadvantaged groups across the capital.
You are a pro-active, talented, and confident person within the London Sport team leading our Insight work. The overarching purpose of the role is to produce actionable insight that supports that addresses inequality and helps Londoners to lead longer, healthier and happier lives through physical activity. With a team of four, you will develop and implement insight projects and help advance London Sport’s insight led approach. The role is an exciting blend of organisational insight work, commissioning partners and helping London Sport develop thought leadership and build our influencing and advocacy work.
The Head of Insight leads works across the organisation, working closely with our Heads of digital, technology and innovation as well as impact and data.
London Sport champions equality and is an inclusive organisation that strives to reflect London’s diversity in our appointments. We particularly welcome applications from:
- People from ethnically diverse communities
- Deaf and disabled people
- Women
- Members of the LGBTQ+ community
- People with lived experience of London’s many and varied communities
About You:..
- Lead the production of robust, high-quality accessible and actionable insight that enables London Sport and its partners to increase physical activity levels across London’s population.
- Lead research and insight projects. Including: coordinating others, methodology design, directly carrying out secondary and primary research, analysing and synthesising data, producing and communicating the research output. This involves commissioning work as well as developing teams internally.
- Support the Director and CEO to identify London Sport’s insight needs and to embed insight led practice, processes and the associated culture across London Sport. This will include supporting colleagues to develop their own insight capabilities.
- Manage projects from inception to delivery, ensuring they are delivered within budget and on time. This includes creating and communicating project plans, scopes and schedules; assigning tasks and deadlines and the quality assurance of project deliverables.
- Working with colleagues, secure investment and funds that support the effective delivery of our work.
- Provide thought leadership pieces, white papers and or thought pieces to engage and raise awareness around London Sports areas of focus and issues.
- Provide leadership and management to colleagues.
- Act as the key contact for stakeholders both internal and external.
- Working with colleagues to set appropriate project success metrics, analyse and report this data at appropriate frequencies.
Download the recruitment pack here.
If you have any questions regarding the application process, please email [email protected]