Sports Development Officer Resume Example
Pitch layout: a playing-field mark, participation and funding metrics and a programme-reach table for community sports development officers.
Use this example Template: Sports Development Officer
Ciara Murray
Sports Development Officer — Community Participation, Clubs & Funding
ciara.murray@example.com+44 7700 555 418Glasgow, UK, United Kingdomlinkedin.com/in/ciaramurray-sport
12Years in sport
14,000Participants / year
£2.3mFunding secured
480Coaches trained
Summary
Sports development officer with 12 years in local authority and national governing body roles. I design community programmes that get inactive people moving, build club capacity, train coaches and volunteers, and write funding bids. My programmes reach 14,000 participants a year, 46% of them from the most deprived areas, and I have secured £2.3m in external funding for facilities and activity.
Experience
Senior Sports Development Officer
Glasgow Life · Glasgow, UK
Mar 2020 – Present
14,000Participants / year
46%From deprived areas
£2.3mFunding secured
- Lead the city's community sport plan across 23 neighbourhoods with schools, health and housing partners
- Launched a walking-football and women's-only swim programme that brought 3,100 inactive adults into regular activity
- Wrote funding bids to sportscotland and the National Lottery worth £2.3m for pitches, kit and coaching
- Measure outcomes with participation data and wellbeing surveys and report to councillors each quarter
Club Development Officer
Scottish Football Association · Glasgow, UK
Aug 2016 – Feb 2020
62Clubs accredited
- Took 62 grassroots clubs through Quality Mark accreditation on governance, safeguarding and coaching
- Trained 480 volunteer coaches and grew girls' football registrations in the region by 58%
- Set up 9 school-to-club pathways with local primary and secondary schools
Active Schools Coordinator
Active Schools, Renfrewshire Council · Glasgow, UK
Sep 2014 – Jul 2016
- Ran after-school sport across 14 schools with 60 volunteer leaders
- Raised pupil participation in extra-curricular sport from 38% to 61%
Programme reach (current year)
| Programme | Participants | Retention |
|---|---|---|
| Walking football | 1,200 | 78% |
| Women-only swim | 1,900 | 71% |
| Holiday sport camps | 5,400 | — |
| Girls' football | 2,300 | 82% |
| Disability multi-sport | 640 | 85% |
Summary example
Sports development officer with [N] years in local authority and national governing body roles. I design community programmes that get inactive people moving, build club capacity, train coaches and volunteers, and write funding bids. My programmes reach [N] participants a year, [X%] of them from the most deprived areas, and I have secured [$X] in external funding for facilities and activity.
Example bullet points for a Sports Development Officer
- Lead the city's community sport plan across [N] neighbourhoods with schools, health and housing partners
- Launched a walking-football and women's-only swim programme that brought [N] inactive adults into regular activity
- Wrote funding bids to sportscotland and the National Lottery worth [$X] for pitches, kit and coaching
- Measure outcomes with participation data and wellbeing surveys and report to councillors each quarter
- Took [N] grassroots clubs through Quality Mark accreditation on governance, safeguarding and coaching
- Trained [N] volunteer coaches and grew girls' football registrations in the region by [X%]
- Set up [N] school-to-club pathways with local primary and secondary schools
- Ran after-school sport across [N] schools with [N] volunteer leaders
Replace the [brackets] with your own numbers and facts. Never claim results you didn't achieve.
Skills to include
- Community programme design
- Funding bids
- Club & volunteer development
- Safeguarding
- Upshot
- Power BI
- Excel
- Canva
- Mailchimp
Tips for a Sports Development Officer resume
- Put the hard requirements recruiters screen for in the top third: Community programme design, Funding bids, Club & volunteer development.
- List current credentials with the issuing body, e.g. UEFA C Licence, Child Wellbeing & Protection in Sport.
- Give every recent role at least one measured result — for example participants / year.
- Match the job title in your headline to the posting where it is honest to do so.
- Run the built-in resume checker and paste the job description into the keyword match before you download.
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