Fitness Coach

About the Department

Queen Mary University of London Students’ Union (the Students’ Union) is a representative and campaigning organization providing high quality services, activities, and opportunities for Queen Mary University of London students. The Students’ Union’s mission is ‘Together, we improve students’ lives’ and works towards objectives such as improving the community on campus, providing better representation, and supporting and developing students.

QMSU Services Limited is the wholly-owned subsidiary of the charity (QMSU –the Students’ Union). Carrying on the business as a commercial social purpose company, the services are provided principally for students, staff, and guests of the University.

Qmotion is the Students’ Union run Sport & Fitness Centre, located on the Mile End campus, and provides students, staff and the wider community with diverse and inclusive fitness facilities and services to enable an active lifestyle.

About the Role

We are seeking a highly motivated fitness coach to support the successful operations of the Sport & Fitness Centre.

You will be responsible for providing guidance and assistance to users of the fitness areas, ensuring all areas of the facility are clean and free from hazards, and improving member experience through the proactive promotion and delivery of our fitness services including inductions, group exercise classes, personal training, and events.

This role will incorporate the working of unsociable hours including early mornings, late nights, weekends, and bank holidays.

About you

The successful applicant will be expected to support the development of our group exercise programme through the regular delivery of group exercise classes in a professional and friendly manner. To excel in this role, it is essential that you have experience in delivering a diverse range of group exercise classes to a broad range of clientele.

There may be the opportunity to support the development of our performance programme through the delivery of strength and conditioning services for our student athletes. For this opportunity candidates must be able to demonstrate experience delivering strength & conditioning services to teams or individual athletes.  

About Queen Mary

At Queen Mary University of London, we believe that a diversity of ideas helps us achieve the previously unthinkable.

We continue to embrace diversity of thought and opinion in everything we do, in the belief that when views collide, disciplines interact, and perspectives intersect, truly original thought takes form.

Benefits

We offer competitive salaries, access to a generous pension scheme, 30 days’ leave per annum (pro-rata for part-time/fixed-term), a season ticket loan scheme and access to a comprehensive range of personal and professional development opportunities. In addition, we offer a range of work life balance and family friendly, inclusive employment policies, campus facilities and flexible working arrangements.

Queen Mary’s commitment to our diverse and inclusive community is embedded in our appointments processes. Reasonable adjustments will be made at each stage of the recruitment process for any candidate with a disability. We are open to considering applications from candidates wishing to work flexibly.

Valuing Diversity & Committed to Equality

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