Careers

About Us

Access Sport is a national charity with a vision that no one should be 
excluded from the transformational benefits of community sport. We 
are on a mission to make inclusion the norm in community sport by 
tackling the access barriers faced by disadvantaged and disabled young 
people. 
We do this by training, equipping, and supporting community sports 
clubs, organisations, and volunteers to provide inclusive programmes, 
unleashing their potential to transform the lives of underserved young 
people in their local communities

This work is either place based, Changing Places, or sport focussed, 
Changing Sports. All the clubs we support are invited to join our Inclusive 
Club Network. We then use the expertise gained through this work to 
effect System Change.

In 2023/24 Access Sport engaged over 20,000 disadvantaged and 
disabled young people, with a strong representation from ethnically 
diverse communities, girls, and previously inactive young people. 
A copy of our 2022-2027 growth strategy, Stand for Inclusion, which 
provides further details about our work and future development plans 
can be found here on our website.

Films showcasing our work can be found on our YouTube channel. These 
include a recent film about Access Sport, our multi-sport festival in 
Bristol and our 20th Anniversary film

About The Role

Access Sport is looking to appoint a Community Coach for our Changing 
Sports Cycling Programme in Greater Manchester. 

We believe every young person should have:
• Access to a bike.
• The skills and confidence to use it.
• Somewhere local, safe and exciting to enjoy riding.
We work across 3 areas:
• Facilities: We build exciting, accessible, and inclusive places to ride 
that are accessible to underserved communities and are free to 
use, with equipment on-site.
• Community Outreach: We deliver specialist cycle training to 
inactive, disadvantaged and disabled young people in local schools.
• Clubs: We empower local people to create cycling communities by 
developing regular and inclusive access to equipment and training

The role will deliver across our outreach and club workstreams, 
delivering accessible and inclusive cycling sessions using BMX as a tool to 
engage and build confidence amongst inactive, underserved and 
disabled young people. The post holder will deliver outreach to local 
schools and groups at sites where we are developing a community club.
Building on our partnership with Trafford Council, this role will support 
the development and activation of the new BMX pump track at 
Partington Sports Village. This investment comes as a result of the 
council’s award from the government’s Levelling Up Fund.
The role will also support the delivery at the Little Hulton pump track in 
Salford, which Access Sport built in 2021.

The role will have opportunities to support the Cycling Delivery Manager
to aid the development, growth and sustainability of community cycling 
clubs in and around Greater Manchester

Further Information

Equal opportunities

We welcome and encourage applications from people of all 
backgrounds. Access Sport is committed to creating an inclusive culture, 
through fostering a diverse workforce where everyone feels like they 
belong, differences are valued, and everyone can reach their potential. 
We are actively seeking to diversify and to create a workplace that is 
welcoming for all, ensuring that our workforce is representative of wider 
society and the communities we support. If you need any adjustments to 
the recruitment process, at either application or interview stage, please 
contact us (details in section 6).
We offer disabled applicants the option of requesting that their 
application is considered under the terms of our Guaranteed Interview 
Scheme (GIS). If you wish to apply under our GIS, please indicate this in 
your cover email. For more information, please visit our Join the Team
page.

Background checks
As this role may, at times, involve working in a regulated environment 
with young people, any offer will be conditional to satisfactory 
background checks which includes a criminal record check with the 
Disclosure and Barring Service and two references

The closing date for applications is Sunday 1 December 2024.
To apply, please complete the application form on the Access Sport 
website here: Community Coach, Cycling, Manchester Application Form
Once you have submitted your online application, please email your CV 
and Equal Opportunities Monitoring form to
Careers@AccessSport.org.uk with your full name and role applied for in 
the subject line. Our Equal Opportunities Monitoring Form can be found 
here: www.AccessSport.org.uk/join-the-team

Candidates who have been shortlisted for interview will be notified by
Friday 6 December. First interviews are currently due to take place w/c 9
December.
If you have any questions or would like to have an informal discussion 
about the role, please email Sue.Wheeler@AccessSport.org.uk or call
020 7993 9883.
Data protection 
Access Sport CIO will only process and store your personal information 
(this means any information that identifies or could identify you) for the 
purposes of recruitment, after which it will be securely disposed

Apply for role

Closing date: 1st December 2024