Community Physical Activity Project Co-ordinator Scotland

Position: Community Physical Activity Project Co-ordinator (MS Warrior Alumni Club)

Hours: Part-time, 14 hours a week

Contract: Fixed term until 31 March 2027

Location: Home-based, Scotland

Salary: £26,912 per annum FTE (£10,764.80 per annum for 14 hours per week) plus excellent benefits

Salary Band and Job Family: Band 1, Charity

About the Employer 

This charity makes sure that people living with MS are at the centre of everything they do. And it’s this commitment that unites them across the UK. 

Their strategy is based on what people affected by MS have told them is important to them. It gives the organisation a clear and determined focus.

Their work is based on the hopes and aspirations of the MS community. Together they campaign at all levels, fund ground-breaking research and provide award winning support and information.

This organisation's people are their greatest asset and the key to their success. They offer a vibrant, progressive working environment where you'll be able to make a difference. 

About this job

Can you inspire people, build partnerships and create communities that help people living with MS thrive?

This charity is looking for someone who believes that peer support, movement and community can transform lives.

Thanks to funding from the Movement for Health Grant Scheme, they are creating an exciting new fixed-term role to develop the MS Warrior Alumni Club. Building on the success of the 12-week MS Warrior programme, you'll help create opportunities for people to remain active, connected and supported long after the programme ends through local activities, online communities and volunteer-led peer support.

Working alongside volunteers, people living with MS, healthcare professionals and community partners, you'll create opportunities that encourage ongoing physical activity, wellbeing and peer support across Scotland.

A key part of the role will be recruiting, supporting and developing a network of MS Warrior Alumni Champions. Using their own lived experience, these volunteers will encourage others to build confidence, overcome barriers to physical activity and become part of a supportive, community-led network.

You'll also develop partnerships with leisure providers, community organisations and healthcare professionals, creating more inclusive opportunities for people living with MS to be active in their local communities.

This is an opportunity to shape an innovative model that has the potential to influence how community-based physical activity and peer support are delivered for people living with MS across Scotland.

No two days will be the same. One day you might be facilitating a community conversation with people living with MS, the next you'll be supporting volunteers, developing new partnerships or helping launch a local wellbeing activity.

If you're passionate about community development, partnership working and helping people live well with MS, this charity wouldd love to hear from you.

Please note this is a part-time 14 hrs per week fixed term contract until 31 March 2027

Closing date for applications: 12:00 noon on 30 August 2026

Anticipated interview date: 10 September 2026

Interested?

Please click 'Apply' and follow the job board process. You will receive an email from CHM Recruit containing further information on how to apply for the role. 

Please note that although you may be asked by the job board to upload a CV, you are not applying at this stage.

Equal Opportunities

This employer particularly welcomes applications from people with disabilities and or from ethnic minority backgrounds.

Disability Confident Employer 

Our client is a Disability Confident Employer and they are committed to promoting equality and diversity. 

You will be able to ask for reasonable adjustments as part of both their recruitment and new starter on-boarding processes. 

If you need any help or adjustments to apply for this role, you will be able to contact the employer to discuss this. You can also ask for the application materials to be sent to you in a different format. Such as for them to be sent to you by email or in a larger word format. 

More about their employee benefits: 

This employer has a wide range of employee benefits including (but not limited to): 

Encouraging work life balance

• 38 days paid annual leave (including bank holidays), pro-rata for part-time


• More annual leave entitlement, based on length of employment


• Smart working options (with the opportunity to work remotely and find a smart working pattern that suits both you and them)


• Flexible working options  

Caring for you and your family

• Generous sick pay entitlement


• More sick pay entitlement, based on length of employment


• Opportunity to buy and sell annual leave in each calendar year


• Free access to a GP virtually 24 hours a day/7 days a week allowing you unlimited advice, reassurance and where appropriate diagnosis


• Enhanced leave for new parents


• Free access to a confidential 24 hours a day/7 days a week helpline service for both you and your family with a specialist range of support and information


• Special leave options (such as up to 5 days paid leave for domestic or personal emergencies a year)


• 10 days paid disability leave a year, pro-rata for part-time


• 10 days paid carers’ leave a year, pro-rata for part-time


• Cycle to work scheme


• Death in service scheme


• New family-friendly benefits, including paid leave:
  
  
  
  • in the event of miscarriage or still birth
  
  
  • to support fertility treatments
  
  
  • for antenatal appointments for both parents
  
  
  
  

Thinking about your finances

• Enhanced salary sacrifice pension scheme


• Discounted season ticket loan and interest-free emergency loans


• Give as you earn to support other charities of your choice before tax 


• New employee portal including lifestyle savings vouchers and personal wellbeing 

Enriching your life at work

• Personalised development plans with a wide range of training courses and opportunities to source additional training options with your line manager


• Yearly internal apprenticeship opportunities 


• New, modern offices that embrace working together both in-person and remotely


• Various opportunities to influence how this organisation internally operates (including surveys, and focus and committee groups)


• Active and supportive internal employee networking groups for collaboration and peer support


• 2 days paid leave a year for volunteering for the charity's activities during normal working hours (such as fundraising events, or campaigning in the local community)


• 2 days paid leave a year for volunteering with other charities during normal working hours  

Safeguarding

This employer is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of everyone who uses their services and they come into contact with.

This is regardless of: Gender, race, disability, sexual orientation, religion or belief, pregnancy, gender reassignment.

They recognise their particular responsibility to make sure vulnerable adults and children are protected.

They have measures in place to protect everyone they come into contact with from abuse and maltreatment of all kinds.

Your right to work in the UK 

You must have the right to work in the UK to work in paid employment with this organisation. You’ll need to share documents showing you’re eligible to work in the UK if they offer you employment.

You can find the UK visas and permits granting you the right to work in the UK on the UK Government website. They currently don’t have a Sponsor Licence agreement with the Home Office and aren’t able to support you with your visa applications.  

No agencies please.