Area Children's Activities Manager - Full Time - Woking

Join the Energy at Freedom Leisure – Do Good Feel Good!

At Freedom Leisure, we’re all about positive vibes, great people, and making a real impact. Yes, we run leisure and cultural facilities, gyms, and swimming pools—but at the heart of it all, it’s our people who make the difference.

As one of the UK’s leading charitable leisure trusts, we’re proud of our mission of Improving Lives Through Leisure.  We’re here to help communities live healthier, happier lives by making our centres welcoming, inclusive, and accessible to everyone - because everyone deserves to feel good.  We’re all about delivering amazing customer service with a smile—every single day. We create spaces where people feel at home, supported, and inspired.

If you’re passionate about helping others and love creating great experiences, you’ll feel right at home with us.  You don’t need to be an expert to get started - we’ll give you all the training and support you need. With over 130 centres across England and Wales, there’s loads of room to grow.  Many of our team have built amazing careers doing what they love, helping customers day-to-day and making people feel good.

We’re proud to be a workplace where everyone is welcome, valued, and supported to thrive—because when our team reflects the communities we serve, we all grow stronger together.

We’re looking for an energetic and organised Area Children’s Activity Manager to lead a fun, safe, and educational programme for children and families across the Woking contract. You’ll design and run engaging activities, manage bookings and customer data and lead a team of assistants and supervisors. Building strong relationships with parents, schools and local partners is key, as is ensuring full compliance with OFSTED and Early Years Foundation Stage standards. You’ll also drive the success of holiday camps, parties, soft play and swimming sessions, while maintaining high standards across the centre.

If you’re passionate about children’s development and ready to make a real impact, we’d love to hear from you.

In the event that a high volume of suitable applications are received, the post may close prior to the specified closing date. Please apply as soon as possible if interested.

Hours: 37 hours per week, Monday - Sunday (rota basis)

• Experience of managing a varied workload.
• Clerical and administrative experience.
• The skill to establish key relationships swiftly and appropriately.
• Well developed interpersonal skills, able to negotiate and persuade people both internally and externally.
• Team orientated approach, able to work across organisation boundaries and demonstrate interest and be supportive of the work of colleagues.
• Able to work in a team as well on your own.
• Mobility to travel across sites in Woking.
• Highly organised with a good attention to detail.
• Flexible and adaptable.
• Enhanced DBS Check to be carried out.

Desirable

• A minimum of a Level 3 qualification in childcare, early years, playwork or education.
• A minimum of 5 years experience working with Children.
• An ability to feed into and translate into action the centre’s strategy and objectives.
• An ability to analyse problems, situations and information, think laterally and present workable solutions.

We want you to love coming to work, feeling healthy, happy and valued. That's why we've developed a benefits package with you in mind, so what can we offer you?

• My Staff Shop, our very own staff benefit scheme, gives employees access to a great range of benefits. Get discounts on cinema tickets, travel bookings, high street e-vouchers, gift cards, days out, leisure activities and your day to day spending.
• Discounted Staff membership (including family members).
• Incremental holidays.
• Employee Assistance Programme - 24/7 confidential, independent and professional counselling.
• Company pension.
• Various insurance and saving schemes.
• Financial advice.
• Cycle-to-work and Car Leasing tax-efficient schemes (salaried staff only).
• All this as well as fully funded training and career progression opportunities in a team working environment.

Closing date: 12th September 2025

Salary: up to £26,043 per annum