Job Description

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 - but it's not essential. 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 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.
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 , 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 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 .
We are proud to be part of a dynamic, multicultural city that celebrates diversity, we're always looking for talented people from all backgrounds to join us. Our people are our strength, and diversity enhances our creativity and leads to better decision-making and problem-solving. Bring your talent and ambition to our stimulating and supportive community where we'll help you thrive.
We particularly encourage applications from global majority male candidates as we are currently under-represented in this area, however all appointments are made strictly on individual merit.
As a 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:
Interviews are scheduled to take place at our Frenchay Campus on Tuesday 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 and it is vital to our success and the delivery of an outstanding experience for our students that our campuses are dynamic and vibrant places to learn and spend time. 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.
To ensure fairness and equity all salary offers will be made in line with the University's salary assessment guidelines and will be based on your relevant skills and experience.
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 for information on which documents are acceptable.
Advice to applicants
We'd love to hear from you - if you are excited about this opportunity please complete our application form as soon as possible.
Tell us how your skills and experience relate to the requirements of this role by describing how you meet each of the essential and desirable criteria listed in the Person Specification section of the , and include specific examples wherever possible.
Once we have completed shortlisting we will let you know the outcome of your application by email, so please check your inbox for updates.

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