SOUTH LONDON CHARITY IS HIRING A MANAGER TO DEVELOP AN EXCITING NEW SPORTS FACILITY IN DULWICH FOCUSED ON WIDENING ACCESS TO SPORT London Youth Sports Trust (LYST) is seeking a general manager to develop and operate sports and community activities at the Griffin Sports Ground** in Dulwich, south London, including drawing up and implementing a sustainable business plan. LYST is a new charity that in March 2022 signed a 30 year lease for this charming sports ground that has fallen into some disrepair and was running at a substantial loss. We are looking for someone interested in taking on the challenge of turning the facility into a successful community hub and who has a vision for how to use it to address unequal access to sporting opportunities. The charity was founded by top youth football club Lambeth Tigers FC and Dulwich Cricket Club’s women and girls’ teams to make the Griffin a home for their own teams, and to develop it as a top-quality hub for advancing social, racial and gender inclusion in football and cricket. Our mission is to create a sports hub that offers outstanding and affordable facilities to young people who would not otherwise have access to them – principally the less privileged and racially diverse communities of south London, and women and girls. Lambeth Tigers have a proud record of developing outstanding footballers from a very broad range of social and ethnic backgrounds, and Dulwich Cricket Club has tripled girls’ participation in junior cricket over the past three years. Other users already welcomed at the Griffin include Carnegie Cricket Club, a club with a West Indian heritage that in its decades of operation has not had a home. We are supported by Sport England, the England and Wales Cricket Board, Surrey County Cricket Club, the Football Foundation and other public bodies and sponsors The General Manager's role will be to support the inclusive sporting mission of the charity and its partner clubs, by developing and implementing a successful business strategy that maximises income, controls costs, and thus allows the charity to operate sustainably. This will be centred on running a programme of use and events, as well as.management of all staff and volunteers, and overseeing the care and upkeep of the facility. This is a wide-ranging job requiring a variety of skills and LYST is committed to providing training and professional support to the manager to fill any gaps they may have in their knowledge or experience. (**Full address: 12 Dulwich Village, London, SE21 7AL.) SALARY: NEGOTIABLE TERMS: FULL TIME - willingness to work some weekend hours; TWO YEAR CONTRACT For further details please write to
[email protected] enclosing your CV.
