The Role

This is an exciting time to be joining London Sport as we launch of our new 2024-27 strategy. Our strategy is underpinned by data, insight and evidence and our work is applied from grass roots through to influencing and advocacy at policy level.

 As Head of Insight you are central to driving this vision internally and to present our work and work with stakeholders externally. London Sport provides insight and best practice to support the community sport sector to address inactivity, we also advocate for funding and system change to address the inequalities experienced by minority and disadvantaged groups across the capital. 

You are a pro-active, talented, and confident person within the London Sport team leading our Insight work. The overarching purpose of the role is to produce actionable insight that supports that addresses inequality and helps Londoners to lead longer, healthier and happier lives through physical activity. With a team of four, you will develop and implement insight projects and help advance London Sport’s insight led approach. The role is an exciting blend of organisational insight work, commissioning partners and helping London Sport develop thought leadership and build our influencing and advocacy work.  

The Head of Insight leads works across the organization, working closely with our Heads of digital, technology and innovation as well as impact and data. 

What you’ll do:

• Lead the production of robust, high-quality accessible and actionable insight that enables London Sport and its partners to increase physical activity levels across London’s population. 

• Lead research and insight projects. Including: coordinating others, methodology design, directly carrying out secondary and primary research, analysing and synthesising data, producing and communicating the research output. This involves commissioning work as well as developing teams internally.  

• Support the Director and CEO to identify London Sport’s insight needs and to embed insight led practice, processes and the associated culture across London Sport. This will include supporting colleagues to develop their own insight capabilities. 

• Manage projects from inception to delivery, ensuring they are delivered within budget and on time. This includes creating and communicating project plans, scopes and schedules; assigning tasks and deadlines and the quality assurance of project deliverables. 

• Working with colleagues, secure investment and funds that support the effective delivery of our work.  

• Provide thought leadership pieces, white papers and or thought pieces to engage and raise awareness around London Sports areas of focus and issues. 

• Provide leadership and management to colleagues. 

• Act as the key contact for stakeholders both internal and external. 

• Working with colleagues to set appropriate project success metrics, analyse and report this data at appropriate frequencies. 

Who you are:

• Excellent understanding of qualitative and quantitative research techniques. An understanding of behaviour change work and other methodologies are also desirable.  

• Extensive experience and a proven track record of directly undertaking successful research / insight projects using both qualitative and quantitative approaches. 

•  Experience of delivering insight to influence decision makers and policy makers.  

• A proven ability to translate organisational knowledge needs into practical and actionable insight projects using appropriate methodologies. 

• Good understanding of how to lead and motivate a team to deliver objectives and personal development goals. Supporting colleagues to grow through their work.  

• Experience of working with agile project management methodologies and in creating and managing project documentation. 

• Excellent communication skills and adept at building effective relationships with stakeholders and a confident public speaker able to present complex information in a simple way to audiences.  

• Capable of owning multiple tasks and seeing them through to their conclusion, meeting deadlines and prioritising work. 

• You are positive, proactive and enjoy working as part of a team. 

Key Details:

• Full-time permanent contract. We are open to discussing part-time and compressed working patterns.

• Salary: £52,500 pro rata

• Offering 28 days’ holiday + 8 public holidays + 5 volunteer days + Christmas Closure

• Competitive Pension scheme 

• Life Assurance and Health Cash Plan

• Flexible working: we use a model of 2 plus days in our central London office at House of Sport and working from home, with travel required throughout London

• By applying for the role, you are stating that you are eligible to work in the UK. London Sport is unable to apply for a Certificate of Sponsorship for this role.

Please see our website for the full recruitment pack.