VACANCIES - Black Country Place Lead & Monitoring Lead

Help shape a healthier, more active Black Country

Changing how active our communities are means changing how we work together. At Active Black Country, we're building the partnerships, connections and shared learning needed to make change possible.

The Black Country has secured significant investment through Sport England's Place Expansion programme, marking an exciting new chapter in our ambition to create a healthier, more active region.

Across Dudley, Sandwell, Walsall and Wolverhampton, this investment gives us an important opportunity to build on the relationships, local insight and partnerships already developed, strengthening how we connect people, places and organisations, share learning and turn collective ambition into lasting change.

We're looking for two people who want to help us make that happen.

Black Country Place Lead
Salary: £48,500 pa
Contract: Full time, fixed term, 18 months

This is a pivotal role in connecting and coordinating our work across the four Black Country places, helping ensure that local priorities, strategic ambitions and opportunities for collective action are brought together.

Working closely with local Place Leads, Active Black Country colleagues and wider partners, you'll help maintain momentum, strengthen collaboration and ensure activity across the Black Country is connected, aligned and making progress.

You'll play a key role in bringing together insight and experience from across the four places, identifying shared challenges and opportunities, and helping senior leaders and partners understand what is needed at a Black Country level to support lasting change.

We're looking for someone with strong experience of coordinating complex partnerships, programmes or place-based approaches. You'll bring excellent relationship-building, strategic planning and project management skills, alongside the confidence to engage with and influence senior stakeholders across different organisations and sectors.

You'll be comfortable navigating complexity, balancing different priorities and working across strategic and operational environments and someone who builds trust, creates clarity and helps turn collective ambition into meaningful progress.

Monitoring Lead
Salary: £33,500 pa
Contract: Full time, fixed term, 18 months

This person will play an important role in strengthening how we capture, organise, analyse and report on progress across our four places.

Reporting to our Strategic Impact Lead, you’ll develop consistent, practical and proportionate monitoring approaches that provide reliable evidence of what's happening, what's changing and where further attention may be needed.

You'll work closely with our established learning function to ensure monitoring information connects effectively with wider reflection, evaluation and learning activity, while retaining a clear focus on the quality, consistency and usefulness of monitoring and reporting.

We're looking for someone with experience of monitoring, performance or evaluation approaches, who can bring together qualitative and quantitative information, develop effective systems and processes, and communicate findings clearly to different audiences.

You'll understand that monitoring isn't just about collecting data. It's about providing meaningful information that helps partners understand progress and supports informed development.

Why Active Black Country?

We’re a committed, values-led organisation with a strong track record of bringing people and partners together to make a positive difference across the region.

As a committed team with big ambitions we work collaboratively, think creatively and aren't afraid to challenge traditional ways of working to achieve better outcomes for our places. Joining us means becoming part of a supportive team where your ideas, experience and contribution matter. You'll have the opportunity to shape how we work and contribute to lasting change across the Black Country.

If you're motivated by making a difference we'd love to hear from you.

To apply:

1. Please submit an up-to-date CV and an expression of interest explaining why you are interested in this role, detailing how you are a good candidate for the post and how you fulfil the person specification – we recommend that this is no longer than two pages.

2. The declaration form – but completion of the equalities section is not mandatory, this is requested for monitoring purposes in line with our commitment to equality and diversity.

3. Please submit your expression to enquiries@Activeblackcountry.co.uk

Closing date for applications: 6th December 2026

Supporting documents

Black Country Place Lead Job Description

Monitoring Lead Job Description

Equality and Diversity Monitoring Form

Active Black Country is committed to achieving the highest standards of employment practice. Equality of opportunity for all sections of the workforce is an integral part of this commitment and we will not tolerate less favourable treatment for anyone. We monitor our recruitment and selection practices to fulfil our statutory duty relevant to equality in employment and to ensure our practices are fair, equitable and consistent with the aim of appointing the best person, based on merit, for any role.