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About Us

London Sport is a not-for-profit organisation helping all Londoners live longer, healthier and happier lives through being active.

Part of a national network, we champion physical activity in London’s most deprived communities, sharing insights, influencing decision makers and allocating funding to effect change.

In some parts of the capital, people live 12 years longer in good health than others. With physical inactivity one of the leading risk factors for preventable ill health, we want to help more people find their way to move more.

Those in our most deprived communities face the greatest inequalities and barriers to leading an active life. If we can help people be active, we can improve mental health, tackle obesity, boost children’s academic performance, reduce pressure on the NHS, and unlock an estimated £10 billion in economic and social value for the city.

By collaborating with like-minded organisations, we aim to create fairer access to sport and physical activity across the capital.

Our work is 100% focused on London. By concentrating on the capital’s most deprived communities, we’ve built relationships and insight that no other organisation can match. This depth of understanding allows us to provide evidence that policymakers and funders can trust to shape decisions and drive meaningful change

About The Role

The Director of Place, Programmes and Delivery provides strategic leadership and operational oversight of the charity’s programmes and projects, including our Place Expansion work, ensuring they are high-quality, impactful, and aligned with the organisation’s mission and values. The role is responsible for translating strategic objectives into effective delivery, embedding learning and improvement, and ensuring programmes are sustainable, inclusive, and responsive to the needs of funders.

You will have a strong understanding of risk management, developing senior relationships with key partner agencies, able to take decisive and proactive actions to ensure smooth execution of programmes.

You will be purposeful and collaborative with the ability to manage multiple complex programmes at one time. The current programmes you will be responsible for include: Safeguarding and Welfare, Playzones, and Place Expansion. You will also be responsible for all of our Project work.

Being the senior leader responsible for our Place Expansion work will be a substantial part of this role.  Place-based working in this sector is still emerging and operates within complex local systems, requiring the ability to navigate, influence and align a wide range of partners, often with different priorities, accountabilities and constraints.

You will also be the lead senior officer responsible for Safeguarding.

As a member of the senior leadership team, the Director of Programmes, Delivery and Place contributes to organisational strategy, resource planning, and organisational culture. You will also regularly attend Board meetings and Sub-Committee meetings as required.

Who you are:

• Significant senior-level experience in programme or service delivery within the charity, public, or related sectors.
• Experience of managing and influencing complex relationships with external senior stakeholders at a strategic level and brokering solutions in environments where relationships can be both collaborative and contested.
• Proven experience of leading complex programmes and teams.
• Strong understanding of programme design, delivery and impact measurement.
• Experience of project management tools, resource planning and budget management.
• Excellent leadership, communication, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Strong commitment to, and knowledge of, safeguarding, equity, diversity, and inclusion.
• Alignment with the values and mission of the organisation.
• You are able to demonstrate an understanding of, and commitment to, equality, diversity and inclusion in relation to London.
• You have lived experience of day-to-day life in London. 

Further Information

Find out more about this role at our online candidate information webinar on 8^th June at 3pm.  Join the session using this link or watch the recording of the session on our YouTube Channel.

Please see the recruitment pack on our website for full details.

Key Details:

Full-time (35 hours per week).  We are open to discussing flexible working options.

Salary: £75,000 per annum if full-time

Permanent contract

Flexible working: we use a model of 2 plus days per week in our central London office at House of Sport or a partner organization and working from home, with travel required throughout London

Timeline:

Deadline for applications: EoD on Tuesday 16^th June

Apply for role

Closing date: 16th June 2026