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New collaboration to support jobseekers to build a great career in the sport and physical activity sector

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The Chartered Institute for the Management of Sport and Physical Activity (CIMSPA) is delighted to be collaborating with the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to help more people build great careers within the sport and physical activity sector.



Through this new collaboration, CIMSPA is creating resources and training on careers in the sector which will help Job Centre Work Coaches and DWP Employer Engagement Officers across the country to support job seekers to explore the wide range of roles available in sport and physical activity.


This will also strengthen the links between local DWP leads and CIMSPA’s local skills delivery team to further enhance skills development and work opportunities in each locality, supporting place-based initiatives that deliver on local priorities.


As part of this collaborative work, CIMSPA will also be working to support over 130 DWP School Advisers, who are working across over a thousand schools, with access to career guidance on opportunities available to inspire young people to consider a career in the sport and physical activity sector.


Longer-term, CIMSPA will be working with DWP colleagues to make training opportunities available to DWP customers who want to start a career in the sport and physical activity sector.


Tara Dillon, CEO of CIMSPA said,

"We’re delighted to be working with DWP colleagues to help more people discover how they can find and build an amazing career in our sector.

The sports and physical activity sector has some huge benefits for someone looking for a fulfilling role that is flexible and offers great development opportunities. By building a career in our sector you really can change lives, helping people to be healthier and happier through being more active.


There are some perceptions of what it’s like to work in our sector and the type of person that you need to be to be part of it. We want to bust those myths and make more people aware that often the practitioners that have the most impact are the ones that reflect the communities that they work with. As policy is being developed and implemented to support economically inactive people, this is particularly important. We know that often economic inactivity is linked to physical inactivity, and by helping people to improve their active wellbeing we can increase their confidence to undertake a more active life, including working or volunteering. The key to this is having a workforce that understands the challenges that people face and who can engage those who are inactive.


Equally being a trainer, coaching and delivering physical activity is just one part of the sector. There are many more roles outside of that in areas such as customer service, marketing, IT, facilities management and many more which the sector is looking for people to fill.


Our sector employs close to 600,000 people and right across the sector, we’re seeing demand for people to fill vacant roles. For example, towards the end of last year, we saw over 22,000 unique job posts across two months.


We see this collaboration, and crucially our alignment on the importance of place-based working to support local people and communities, as integral to supporting more great people to become part of our talented, dedicated workforce.”


This collaboration with DWP is being facilitated alongside the Local Skills Project which is managed by CIMSPA and funded by Sport England. This project brings together stakeholders across a locality to ensure that skills provision matches local employer needs and aligns with local health, economic and social priorities.


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