Vacancy: Bike Club Development Officer – Cardiff area 13/01/2010
Posted by Clive Andrews in Cardiff, Vacancies.Tags: Cardiff, jobs, Vacancies, Wales
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(Cymraeg)
Bike Club Development Officer – Cardiff area
Full time (job share considered for exceptional candidates).
Circa £24,000 per annum
Bike Club is expanding around the UK and we have a vacancy for a Bike Club Development Officer to work in the Cardiff area.
Bike Club is an innovative project to create new cycling clubs and activities for children and young people. Funded by the Asda Foundation, we aim to provide opportunities to learn new skills and have rewarding experiences through cycling-related activities.
Bike Club is delivered by a partnership of CTC -the national cyclists’ organisation, Youth Cymru and ContinYou Cymru. (In England, CTC is partnering with UK Youth and ContinYou)
We are looking for a Bike Club Development Officer to be responsible for delivering the project in the Cardiff area, working closely with existing networks of staff and volunteers in formal and informal learning settings
If you can demonstrate your empathy for the needs of young people; your experience of promoting cycling, physical activity or other community programmes within community focused schools and youth settings; and you have developed supporting learning and training materials then we want to hear from you.
There is more detailed information on this downloadable job description document.
An enhanced CRB check will be required on appointment.
Send a CV and covering letter to Sue Cherry, CTC, Parklands, Railton Road, Guildford. GU2 9JX. Email sue.cherry@ctc.org.uk. Closing date: 25 January 2010, assessment day 9th February and second interviews on 16th February.
CTC Charitable Trust is an equal opportunities employer. Registered Charity Number 1104324.
hello, can you tell me what would be an average day for a Bike Club Development Officer?
Yesterday I aranged to meet a sports development worker about a school based Bike Club. I did some (overdue) office paperwork then went to a girls cycling skincare session and came away with some bloke’s moisturiser: http://bit.ly/5kYizi Met some people about bike recycling with young offenders and costed up some training that a new Bike Club might need with our colleagues at http://www.promtb.net Couple of phone calls about UKYouth’s centenary and that was about it. Oh and the vegan food thing for our team meeting. That’s too “in house…”
Yesterday, I went to carlisle in a very heavy snow shower to meet with a Community volunteer to talk about setting up a bike club in her village including an accredited maintenance course. I then ent on to meet an officer from a housing association who is looking to set up a bike recycling scheme and to convert a disused BMX track into a bike skills area as well as setting up a cycling festival at Easter. After these two meetings I went back to the Office to do some research on the Duke of Edinburgh Award, a project I’m working on with a colleague. Then cycled home from Lancaster…..just recovering from hypothermia now.
Hi,
I found the advertisement for a Development Officer quite intriguing. I currently have 5 months left on my current contract, so my question is when are you expecting to appoint someone and how flexible are you on the start date?
Thank you,
Paul.
Hi Paul
Glad you find this of interest.
The closing date for these applications will be 25 January, with interviews happening during February. If that’s too early for your plans, bear in mind that more Bike Club jobs will be advertised later this year – it all depends how flexible you can be with location.
Keep watching this site, or our RSS feed, or our Twitter feed, and you’ll know about jobs as soon as they appear.
Hi Clive
I live in Cardiff and I’m going to submit my application shortly. However I was wondering how flexible the hours are in terms of continuing to meet my current family responsibilities, like collecting the kids from school etc. and if working from home on occasions would be a possibility.
Thanks
Hi Nic
It’s hard for me to say, really. That’s probably a matter for Sue (who’s handling applications) and/or Sarah – the Bike Club manager.
You might want to drop Sarah an email at sarah.troke@bikeclub.org.uk or mention your question in a covering letter with a CV sent to Sue.
Clive