Community Walking Officer - Active Adults - ACS00211

Community Walking Officer - Active Adults - ACS00211

To support the Active Stirling Walk Leaders and Volunteers who deliver our weekly walks. Working across the Stirling area, you will contribute to the delivery of a high-quality, person-centred walking programme, assisting the walk leaders and volunteers and continue to allow more people to benefit from living an active, healthy lifestyle.

This post is fixed term for 10 months in line with funding.

Requirements

• Walking Scotland Walk Leader (although training can be delivered if you don’t already have this)


• Experience of working with the public and providing a high level of customer service, particularly older adults


• Ability to work effectively as a team member and forge strong links with partners


• Familiar with health and safety procedures, safe operating practices, including first aid.


• Full UK Driving licence.


• Enjoy walking outdoors.

Responsibilities

You will:

• visit our current walks, help lead our weekly walks when required, help recruit and train new volunteers and help start up new walk in Stirlingshire


• process weekly registers


• Keep our walking emails up to date and answer any queries.

The Individual

At Active Stirling we are driven by the desire to improve people’s lives through getting more people, more active, more often. We expect our team to live and breathe our brand values: people centred, ambitious, respect, team spirit and integrity to help our customers and colleagues. This means you’ll be a true team player with a positive attitude joining a team of focused and passionate people where you’ll put people at the heart of what you do making sure a consistent quality service is delivered. As such, you will aim to develop your skills and the service of your business area. You’ll get to work at a great place with excellent learning and development opportunities. Benefits include a competitive salary, pension, generous holidays, and free use of our leisure facilities plus free car parking.