Sports Facilities Coordinator

Job Title:                Sports Facilities Coordinator
Location:                Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire
Compensation:      £30,486.00
Role Type:              Full time / Permanent
Role ID:                  SF54643

At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Sports Facilities Coordinator at our RAF Halton site.

The role

As a Sports Facilities Coordinator, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. The primary role of RAF Halton is to train military and civilian personnel to perform to the highest standard for military operations. This sees the station deliver the Basic Recruit Training Course which has a throughput of approximately 2300 personnel graduating annually, as well as the delivery of command, leadership, and management training as part of their continuing professional development. The station is also the nominated ‘home’ venue for 16 RAF sports associations.

Day to day, As the Sports Facilities Co-Ord you will be responsible for:
 

• Coordination of various facilities – including but not limited to a sports pavilion with meeting rooms, several buildings with changing rooms, several grass football and rugby pitches, and an astroturf pitch. Implement first aid, fire safety and health and safety regulations. Maintaining key authorisation registers and reporting faults.
• Diary management - for the RAF sports associations and other users wishing to book the facilities and maintain a diary of those events. Provide a health and safety brief to the activity sponsors.
• Liaising with other sections – Arranging for pitches to be cut and marked for matches. Booking gyms for indoor activities. Working closely with the commercial team who arrange for spare capacity of the facilities to be rented out to civilian organisations.
• Preparing for events – setting up conference rooms, pitches, marking cross country courses, arranging the gym for events such as table tennis tournaments.
• Equipment records – reconcile the inventory of all government funded equipment held. Arrange for the request, replacement and/or return of equipment as required.

 
This role is full time and based onsite at Halton.

Essential experience of the Sports Facilities Coordinator:

• Excellent communication skills and the ability to adapt style to engage and influence people from all backgrounds and at all levels.
• Problem Solving 
• Planning and organisation skills, to deadlines. 
• Customer Focussed

Qualifications for the Sports Facilities Coordinator:

• We value difference and we don’t have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you.

The successful candidate must be able to achieve BPSS/SC security clearance for this role.

Our Benefits

• Generous holiday allowance 
• Matched contribution pension scheme up to 4.5% of salary, with life assurance
• Employee share scheme 
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of Professional Fees
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave 
• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
• ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity

Babcock International 
For over a century Babcock International have helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal. 
If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please let us know. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working - please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

Closing date: 07/12/2023