Job Title: Sports Facilities Coordinator
Location: Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire
Compensation: £32,500 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF69640
Play a key role in supporting RAF sporting events and ensuring world-class facilities are ready for action.
At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Sports Facilities Coordinator at RAF Halton, near Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire.
The role
As a Sports Facilities Coordinator, you’ll be at the heart of delivering first-class support for Royal Air Force sporting events. This is a hands-on role where you’ll make a real difference by ensuring facilities are safe, well maintained, and ready for use. Your work will help keep RAF personnel active and engaged, while giving you the chance to develop your organisational and problem-solving skills in a dynamic environment.
Day-to-day you’ll be required to:
- Implement first aid, fire safety, and health and safety regulations
- Maintain key authorisation registers and report faults
- Manage diaries for RAF sports associations and facility bookings
- Provide health and safety briefs to activity sponsors
- Liaise with teams to prepare pitches, gyms, and event spaces
The role is based onsite at RAF Halton, and the set working times are Monday–Thursday 08:00–17:00 and Friday 08:00–16:00, totalling 39 hours per week.
Essential experience of the Sports Facilities Coordinator:
- Excellent communication skills and ability to engage with people at all levels
- Strong problem-solving skills and sound judgement
- Brilliant planning and organisation skills to manage multiple priorities
- Pragmatic approach to finding solutions
Qualifications for the Sports Facilities Coordinator:
We value difference and don’t have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and/or willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you. However, the role will appeal to someone with an interest in sport and physical activity.
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) security clearance for this role.
Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).
What we offer
- Generous holiday allowance
- Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
- Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
- Employee share scheme
- Employee shopping savings portal
- Payment of Professional Fees
- Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
- Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
- ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
- Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.
Babcock International
For over a century Babcock has helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal.
We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email careers@babcockinternational.com with the subject header ‘Reasonable adjustments requirement’. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.
Closing date: 21/11/2025