Activities Coordinator - Wokingham, Berkshire

We are Places Leisure, a Real Living Wage Employer, part of the Places for People Group; we are placemakers; our work impacts on the lives of people across the U.K. – providing homes to live in, communities to retire to, spaces to stay active, supported homes for independent living, and student accommodation. Our places work when they work for everyone.

How do we do all this? By surrounding ourselves with active people, supportive people and customer focused people. Our people live and breathe our SPIRIT values; we are the place for spirited people.

So, we want you to join us and the 12,000 other colleagues on our journey; colleagues who have helped us create places, maintain 209,000 homes, manage £4.5 billion of assets, deliver £87.9m in social value and teach 80,000 children to swim each week.  

More about your role

Your role with us will be to co-ordinate all of the leisure centre activities. These will include preparing and setting up junior & adult swimming courses, setting up party bookings and taking payments and organising all holiday activities that the leisure centre holds. Your role will include building external relationships with local schools and clubs and you will work alongside the marketing manager to produce brochures that include all details of future activities to be circulated to all of our customers.

For more information please download our job profile available on our website.

More about you

You will be a strong communicator, with a high level of organisation skills as this position will be fast paced and you will need to prioritise your own workload. Ideally you will possess a background in leisure, alternatively we would welcome applications from candidates from a hospitality background.

Benefits

We are a large, diverse and ambitious business, which will give you all the challenge you could wish for.

We know that there's always more we can do to make you smile, that's why we offer a comprehensive benefits package with each role, yours will include:

• We align with the Real Living Wage foundation
• Full Health & Fitness membership for you, a nominated adult and up to 4 juniors
• Flexible working (including part time working, shift work and more)
• An opportunity to purchase additional annual leave
• Lots of opportunity to access ongoing personal learning and development
• Access to our Company Pension scheme
• Cashback plan for healthcare costs – up to £500 saving per year
• Discounts of up to 50% on activities, centre shop and cafes
• Extra perks including huge discounts and offers from shops, cinemas and much more.

What's next?

If you meet the criteria and are ready to make the next step in your career then click apply. You will be redirected to our careers site where you can discover more about the role, read a full job description and apply directly to us.