Head of Sport & Wellness

King's College London is one of the top 10 UK universities in the world (2020 QS World University Rankings) and among the oldest in England. Since its foundation in 1829 King's has defined itself in terms of its service to society, and it now has some 30,000 students and more than 8,000 staff members. King's Strategic Vision 2029, a strategy which will take the university to its 200th birthday, has pledged that its staff and students will continue to help make the world a better place.

Since 2012, the department has been known as King's Sport, growing from a single gym at Waterloo, to now operating 5 gyms across London, 2 Sports Grounds, sectoring leading Performance Programme, and with Physical and Digital Activity programmes across all campuses and residences. Culminating in connecting with 15,000 members of our community annually, with a turnover more than £2.4m and income generating activities of £1.6m.

Over the past few years, King's Sport & Wellness have continued to strengthen their strategic collaboration across the university and demonstrate our impact against the Vision 2029. Building from our ambition to adopt a whole university approach to wellbeing and supporting our staff and students as important stakeholders of a King's community. Focused on enhancing experience and enriching our culture - through developing holistic, integrated services, proactive interventions and partnerships. Improving our 'community of communities' mental, social and physical wellness, to strengthen our support at Level One of the King's Mental Health and Wellbeing Strategy, to enable greater self-care and self-efficiency through our established Ways to Wellbeing.

This is a key leadership role putting the students at the heart of the decision making. You will lead a talented and ambitious team to deliver a service with commercial principles that contributes to the wider university learning experience through the interaction with our sports facilities and wellness programmes.

The post-holder will assume responsibility for the operational budgets, including full P+L accountability for various departments, providing good value for money whilst delivering financial expectations. You will lead a team that provides outstanding levels of customer service to various stakeholders. Ideally, the candidate will come from an industry focused on the sport or leisure sector in some guise inclusive of the fitness, higher education or wider sporting sectors.The competitive benefits package includes 27 days annual leave + 4 closure days (Christmas) + bank holidays. The USS pension scheme has generous employer contributions. For a confidential discussion please contact our advisor James Gregory or Hayley Mintern of The Management Recruitment Group.Closing date for applications is Tuesday 3rd January 2023 with interviews on Monday 9th and Wednesday 11th January 2023.

The Management Recruitment Group has been exclusively retained for this campaign. All direct and third-party applications will be forwarded to them