CIMSPA LAUNCHES NEW CAREERS GUIDE

The new guide will help sport and physical activity professionals realise their potential, says Colin Huffen

There are currently more than 585,000 people working in the UK’s sport and physical activity sector. Large, diverse and vibrant, the industry offers a wide variety of career and professional development opportunities with more launching all the time.

To help professionals navigate the fantastic opportunities available, at CIMSPA we have launched our new Careers Guide for the Sport and Physical Activity Sector.

This is something our stakeholders, education and employer partners and members of the workforce have been asking for, for some time. People want to know about the careers available and the training they need to access them. Until now, the sector hasn’t had a clear reference point outlining the career opportunities available we can all point to. By launching the guide and supporting it with the sector’s jobs board, we have made a start in providing the information they’re looking for and helping them to realise their full potential.

Developed in conjunction with

Careermap, which has produced similar guides for other sectors, the new guide breaks down the different industries and occupations that exist within sport and physical activity, including frontline practitioner, management and senior leadership positions.

The guide goes into detail on what the different roles entail, the professional recognition needed for each of them and advice on how to access the right training and qualifications. It also includes information about likely salary and benefits, case studies from people already working in industry roles as well as how CIMSPA can support professionals to fulfil their career goals.

Suitable for all levels of sport and physical activity professional, the guide has been designed to be generic and meets the needs of a broad audience, from those thinking about a career in the sector to those looking for their next opportunity or progression route by giving information and signposting to where they can find out more.

The guide has been made possible thanks to the considerable groundwork we’ve done with our partners over the last four to five years in developing professional standards and agreed industry definitions. Without that work, we wouldn’t have been able to provide such meaningful and realistic careers advice and guidance.

But this is just the start. In the next 12-18 months we’ll be spending lots of time and investment developing and improving careers advice and guidance for the workforce and our partners. We are developing a careers hub which will include this guide and our jobs board as well as more detailed advice, guidance, and resources to support the sector.

If you have ideas about what you would like from the careers hub, please contact us at info@cimspa.co.uk