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:..
- Excellent understanding of qualitative and quantitative research techniques. An understanding of behaviour change work and other methodologies are also desirable.
- Extensive experience and a proven track record of directly undertaking successful research / insight projects using both qualitative and quantitative approaches.
- Experience of delivering insight to influence decision makers and policy makers.
- A proven ability to translate organisational knowledge needs into practical and actionable insight projects using appropriate methodologies.
- Good understanding of how to lead and motivate a team to deliver objectives and personal development goals. Supporting colleagues to grow through their work.
- Experience of working with agile project management methodologies and in creating and managing project documentation.
- Excellent communication skills and adept at building effective relationships with stakeholders and a confident public speaker able to present complex information in a simple way to audiences.
- Capable of owning multiple tasks and seeing them through to their conclusion, meeting deadlines and prioritising work.
- You are positive, proactive and enjoy working as part of a team
Download the recruitment pack here.
If you have any questions regarding the application process, please email [email protected]
