Active Lifestyles Officer

About this role

At UWE Bristol Sport, we’re passionate about helping our staff and students feel their best, in mind and body. Our Active Wellbeing offer is at the heart of this, and we’re looking for someone who can bring energy, expertise, and fresh ideas to make it even better.

As our Active Lifestyles Officer, you’ll play a key role in delivering our Sport Experience strategy – inspiring and supporting the UWE Bristol community through engaging health, fitness, and wellbeing programmes, initiatives, and resources.

We’re looking for a motivated, proactive, and enthusiastic individual with a background in health, fitness, or wellbeing to join our team. This is a maternity cover role (up to 12 months) and a fantastic opportunity to make a real impact, bring your creativity to life, and support a healthier, happier community at UWE Bristol.

About you

You’ll bring a strong background in health and wellbeing promotion or development, with a genuine passion for helping others get active and enjoy the benefits that physical activity brings.

Highly organised and adaptable, you’ll be confident working with a wide range of people and able to communicate effectively across different audiences. With proven experience in a large, complex organisation, you’ll also have excellent IT skills and be comfortable using a variety of digital platforms and databases.

Experience within the Higher Education sector would be an advantage. What matters most is your enthusiasm, expertise, and commitment to supporting the wellbeing of our community.

Where is this role based?

This post is based at our lively Frenchay campus where we have invested in the latest facilities and resources to give both our staff and students access to everything they need to succeed.

Why UWE Bristol?

We are one of the largest providers of Higher Education in the South West with 38,000 students and 4,000 staff from right across the globe. Based in vibrant Bristol, our ambitions are to make a positive difference to our planet, transforming futures through actions and solving real world challenges.

We offer a wide range of employee benefits including progressive pay rates, very generous annual leave and career average pension schemes as well as retail savings, onsite nursery and opportunities for training and personal development.

Add your individuality to ours

UWE Bristol recognises the power of a truly diverse university community.

We particularly encourage applications from global majority male candidates and as a Disability Confident employer we welcome applications from those who identify as having a disability.

Further information

If you would like to speak to us to find out more about this role please contact Tamara Getter 0117 328 86245 or email: tamara2.getter@uwe.ac.uk

Interviews are scheduled to take place at our Frenchay Campus 4th  November 2025.

This is a part-time, fixed-term post for up to 12 months, working 18.5 hours per week.

UWE Bristol is a campus-based University, this role is therefore campus based for at least 50 percent of your time, with the opportunity to work from home on the remaining days.

This post requires standard DBS clearance.

The University has a legal responsibility to ensure that all employees are eligible to work in the UK. You will therefore be required to provide evidence of this right, please refer to the Home Office Right to Work Checklist for information on which documents are acceptable.

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