Salary: up to £36,520 pro rata per annum (dependent on experience), plus benefits
Contract: Fixed Term Contract Secondment for 2.5 days per week (until end of June 2022)
How to apply: Please email a CV and cover letter explaining why you are the right candidate for the role by 5pm (GMT) 4th October 2021 to recruitment@theodi.org
The Open Data Institute is looking to appoint an Engagement Consultant for the OpenActive initiative, in partnership with Sport England. You will be responsible for supporting a cutting-edge programme of work and your responsibilities will involve; proactively scoping out strategic partners to engage with; collaborating with both new and established members of the OpenActive community to identify programme needs and opportunities; and assessing how we can best empower the OpenActive community.
About OpenActive
The goal of OpenActive is to tackle inactivity in England by making it as easy to book a badminton court, as it is to book a hotel room! This exciting programme brings together a growing community of activity providers, technology suppliers and data users. By setting common data standards, and helping organisations to openly publish their timetables and opportunities as open data, we are making it easier for people to get physically active. The ODI, with funding from Sport England, will continue to steward this initiative until 30th June 2022. During this period we aim to:
● Capture value for activity providers and consumers, demonstrating that publishing open data can help activity providers reach new customers and/ or operate more efficiently.
● Increase the coverage, diversity and quality of data.
● Strengthen capability. We need to help activity providers, platform providers and data users understand what they need to do and how to do it, independently of the ODI.
● Ensure that OpenActive is sustained beyond June 2022. We need to ensure that the momentum and the infrastructure we have been building continue beyond the current funding period of the initiative.
Responsibilities
● Build relationships with physical activity providers, working with them to open their data
● Build relationships with system providers, encouraging new providers to get involved with the initiative and build additional functionality to support it
● Build relationships with membership bodies in sport, such as National Governing
Bodies, encouraging them to promote OpenActive to their members and wider
networks, and support them using open data
● Build relationships with open data users and brokers, working with them to use open data
● Work with and coordinate the OpenActive community to engage activity providers around use cases and physical activity campaigns, such as ‘National Fitness Day’ and ‘This Girl Can’
● Manage and prioritise a pipeline of potential publishers and data users
● Identify and propose ways in which the team can improve its approach or messaging to target specific audiences, and empower them to take action
● Communicate progress internally and externally, through reporting, targeted meetings and workshops
● Manage the OpenActive webinar programme, organising webinars targeted at both the wider physical activity sector and specific audiences within it
● Network and present in meetings with senior stakeholders
● Support the delivery of the engagement strategy
As a member of the ODI team, your responsibilities include:
● Embracing and reflecting ODI’s values and culture in the way you work
● Taking time for professionally required CPD, coaching and mentoring, both
individually and as a team
● Engaging in and contributing to the ODI’s work on Diversity and Inclusion
About you
● Ability to work independently and prioritise effectively under pressure and to short deadlines
● A good communicator with excellent written and verbal skills that can easily be adapted to suit different gatherings and circumstances
● Ability to take something complex and explain it to non-technical audiences
● A familiarity and understanding of startup ecosystems and/or the physical activity sector and/or open data
● Strong IT, research, and analytical skills
● A strong problem-solving and strategic planning ability
● A team player who is comfortable working across multiple projects with a variety of stakeholders and interests represented
● Organised, with excellent attention to detail
● Ability to work proactively to identify and initiate new engagement opportunities for the OpenActive initiative.
● Educated to degree level, or equivalent professional experience
About the ODI values Expert
We are good at what we do. We use our expertise to achieve our mission. We are open and generous with our expertise and experience and share it outside and inside ODI. We can get better at what we do. We recognise the limits of our expertise and respect that of others. We are open to and seek advice, opinions and support to develop our expertise, within and outside ODI. We reflect on what works and what doesn’t to consciously learn, improve and grow.
Enabling
We succeed when others flourish. We support and challenge others to do their best work. We open up opportunities for other people and organisations and empower them to take them. We are as open as possible about what we are doing and what we have learnt. We encourage others to refine and build on our work. We empathise with others so we can help them. We find out what people and organisations really need. We have empathy with their motivations and the constraints they operate under. We communicate in terms they understand.
Fearless
We are trusted because we are honest and responsible. We are open with our opinion, open to hearing what others say, open to being wrong and open to changing our mind. We are not afraid to speak our mind when it is useful or important and take responsibility for the results of doing so. We actively and curiously listen to others and take responsibility for our responses to them. We can do more than we might think. We are bold, creative and open to failure. We know what we do won’t be perfect at first but that doesn’t stop us. We start small and quickly, and iterate to improve.
Benefits
● 5% contributory pension
● 30 days’ annual holiday (prorated)
● Life Assurance cover
● Long-term disability cover
● Critical illness cover
● Flexible working
● Coaching and mentoring for skills and personal development
● £750 annual training budget toward your professional development (prorated)
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Salary Up to £36,520 pro rata per annum (dependent on experience), plus benefits
