Project Support Officer - Physical Activity

Job Introduction

Our Story:

Halton is a vibrant local authority with a rich history and heritage, featuring two iconic bridges that connect communities across the River Mersey. Located in Cheshire, Halton boasts excellent transport links between Liverpool and Manchester, as well as close proximity to both Liverpool John Lennon and Manchester Airports.

Our progressive community strategy aims to bring about meaningful, long-term improvements that enhance lives. It’s an exciting time to join us as we develop new policies and transform the way people access services.

We are immensely proud that when asked what’s great about working for Halton, the most popular response from our workforce has been ‘our colleagues’. 

Our Team:

Halton has been chosen by Sports England as a place-based expansion area to develop a system model to support our population to improve more through collaboration and cross system working. This role will support the implementation and delivery of that approach across the borough.

This role will work as part of a busy Public Health team providing high level project and administrative support to Senior Management and the wider team.

The role will specifically support the Principle Manager for Physical Activity in planning and organising meetings, events, development work and projects aimed at improving Physical Activity uptake in Halton.

Hours: 37 per week

This is a fixed term contract role, funded until 31/03/2028.

Your Contributions:

• Responsible for supporting with delivery of various Placed Based Physical Activity Projects, ensuring applications are processed within project guidelines and an effective recording and monitoring system is maintained.
• Support Senior Management to gather evidence and intelligence that underpins project development and delivery and produce papers/ reports/ statistical information as required by the team.
• Support the delivery of engagement workshops to gain insights and the delivery of evaluation and learning within the project. 
• Manage and organise the diary of senior managers in the Public Health Team and arrange internal and external meetings preparing necessary documents.
• Have knowledge of project management processes, project administration and the use of specialised IT systems.
• Assist in the administration of financial transactions in Public Health  including placing orders, raising external invoices, paying invoices from providers, goods receipting and dealing with queries. 
• Applicant should have a good level of English and IT skills to feel comfortable presenting information in a structured, formal style. 

Our Offer:

Aside from working with a great team, our employees have access to a fantastic range of benefits, including:

• A generous annual holiday allowance starting at 34 days per year (including bank holidays), increasing with long service
• Membership of our defined benefit, salary-linked Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) with generous employer contributions
• 3 x Salary Life Cover via Local Government Pension Scheme
• Investment in your personal development 
• Essential car user allowance
• Free Car Parking at HBC sites 
• Flexible working arrangements 
• Extensive employee benefits platform including discounted shopping, car leasing, gym memberships, wellbeing hub and Employee Assistance Programme.

 If you have previously applied for this role, please do not submit another application. 

Next Steps:

At Halton Borough Council, we want all of our candidates to feel well-informed so if you would like to have an informal chat about this role, please contact Stephen Purcell stephen.purcell@halton.gov.uk   

Interviews will take place on w/c 27 April 2026.

At Halton Borough Council we want to ensure that our communities are represented across our workforce and a vital part of this is to encourage diversity in all respects. We are committed to making our recruitment practices barrier-free and tailored to best suit the needs and strength of the individual. This includes making adjustments for people with a disability, neurodiversity or with long-term health conditions. If you require accommodations, please reach out during the recruitment process so that we can make this the best possible experience for you – resourcing@halton.gov.uk

Please refer to the attached Job Profile for further information about the role and our values.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy earlier than the specified date should we receive sufficient applications. If you’re interested, please complete your application as early as possible.

We look forward to receiving your application!