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About Us

The Sport and Recreation Alliance is the voice of the grassroots sport and recreation sector. Since 1935, the Alliance (formerly known as the Central Council of Physical Recreation) has protected and promoted the interests of our vital sector and membership to government, policy makers and the media. We strongly believe in the transformational power of sport and recreation to positively shape lives and help drive societal and economic growth.

Throughout our new strategy cycle, our unwavering focus will be to deliver with and for our members, particularly our National Governing Body members, who play a foundational role in engaging and keeping people in sport and recreation. As a result of our membership review, we have made several changes to the way in which we are structured and how we operate.

We have evolved our membership structures and services to better support our members and strengthen our role as the independent voice for sport and recreation, bringing together sport and National Governing Bodies to reflect and elevate their systemic role in delivering sport.

We are being smarter in the way we work together with our members, collaborating more effectively to identify key priorities and focusing our resources on delivering against these. We are enhancing our communications and engagement with members to increase awareness of and support for the work we and our members are doing. Using our independent voice, we will protect members’ interests with key decision makers and be bold and ambitious in promoting the benefits of sport and recreation and the impact our members have.

We are seeking an NGB Executive Lead to help shape and drive our new strategy, in relation to NGBs. This is a new opportunity that has been driven by the recent development of our 2025-30 strategy, A United Voice for Sport and Recreation, and implementation of revised membership structures to provide greater focus towards supporting NGBs.

About The Role

View the role information by downloading the recruitment pack.

Further Information

For the team employed at the Alliance, it is more than just a job. The team all want to make a difference. The Alliance may be small, but the work and the impact is far-reaching. Whilst we are focused on meeting targets and delivering outcomes, we know that it is important that people maintain a healthy life-work balance and feel they are looked after.

If you want to know more before applying, then reach out for a confidential chat by emailing recruitment@sportandrecreation.org.uk.

If you are ready to apply now, please send a CV with a covering letter outlining why you want the role and how you meet the role specification. Your covering letter should be 2 sides of A4 maximum. Please send your CV and covering letter to recruitment@sportandrecreation.org.uk.

Closing date: 5pm on Monday 19^th January 2026        

Interview dates: To be arranged

Diversity is valued within our team. More than just encouraging your application, we're committed to conscious inclusion that (we hope) cultivates an ethos of belonging, connection and shared purpose. Our recruitment process anonymises your application at shortlisting stage.

It would really help us if you were able to complete our equality and diversity monitoring survey here. This is anonymous and does not form part of the recruitment process.

Our privacy policy and privacy notice for job applicants can be found on our website here.

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Closing date: 19th January 2026