Mark Stokes Email & Phone Number

Aylesbury

I am the strategic lead for the Children and Young People in Bucks and MK and is responsibly for delivering the county partnership’s targets for primary and secondary school sport. I work closely with key partners and stakeholders to ensure a clear pathway is produced to develop young people’s progress through their education years and beyond.Management and Coordination • Maintaining up-to-date knowledge of national CYP agenda, priorities, products, needs and insight and applying these to a local context. • To take a leading role in the strategic development of community sport and physical activity for children and young people in Bucks & Milton Keynes, also representing as required on key strategic bodies for children and young people.Leadership• To develop strong collaborative relationships with key partners and stakeholders (involved in CYP work); this would include sport’s National Governing Bodies, Bucks Learning Trust, Youth Sport Trust, AfPE, private sports providers, School Games Organisers and Head Teachers networks.Delivery• Deploying the resources of the County Sport Partnership and other investors to ensure CYP opportunities are developed, and funding targets are achieved, ultimately widening participation in sport for children and young people. • Responsibility for delivering the outcomes of the CYP school funding from Sport England in relation to primary schools and overseeing the achievement of targets for secondary school investment.

Luton, United Kingdom

Summary: I worked for a Country Sport Partnership to develop a coaching plan, coordinate its implementation, and monitor performance across the county to aim at defined objectives relating to increasing participation of young adults (14-25) in sport, part of a national strategy established by Sport England.Duties: Management and Coordination:•Develop and implement a County Coach Development Plan to comply with the requirements of National Governing Bodies (NGBs) and the UK Coaching Framework.•Actively engage and support coaches at the local and community level by providing training, providing advice and support on funding opportunities in response to Governing Body Whole Sport Plans (WSPs) and their interventions to increase adult participation. •Manage the recruitment process of active and qualified coaches and support them to register on-line with the County Sport Partnership (CSP) utilising the online coaching portal (coachWeb).•Manage the data management system element of the portal in line with national recommendations to ensure the recording of contact and qualification details; provide appropriate communication with coaches and support CPD requirements. •Support an increase in the number of qualified coaches based on the workforce development needs of NGBs by providing a mechanism by which they can receive local support to help facilitate the deployment of their paid/voluntary coaches in a range of settings including schools, local authority and national programmes (Get Back Into; Sportivate; Active Universities and Active Women). •Embed nationally endorsed minimum standards for Deployment in coaching within the coaching network, particularly within school, local authority and national programme setting. •Manage and coordinate the CSP casual coach agency and support coaches who seek to increase their coaching hrs by promoting the availability of local coaching opportunities.

Windermere, Cumbria

Duties:Stakeholder Management•Developed and implemented a PE and Sport Strategy for Young People, working in partnership with key stakeholders (Cumbria County Sports Partnership, Local Authority, Local Strategic Partnerships, NGB’s and other providers in the area).Supervision•Directly managed one Competition Manager, nine QTS (Qualified Teacher Status), 43 part-time primary teachers, three community coaches and one administrative assistant.•Implemented a defined employee performance management system which involved establishing professional and personal development objectives and reviewing the progress of my staff in achieving these objectives.Budget / Funding Source Management•Actively managed and controlled a direct budget of £300,000 pounds annually and allocating funds within the partnership to support my staff in delivering the objectives and targets set out by the government. •Successfully bid for a grant of £152,000 in 2006 though Big Lottery funding that was to deliver 12 projects throughout my partnership over a three year period.Project Management•Applied for funding from the DCMS in 2008 to deliver the School Coaching Programme, Sports Unlimited, Top-up-swim, Bikeability Change for Life programme over a three year period. •Achieved participation targets. The partnership started operating in Sept 2005 and had a PSA (public service agreement) target to achieve in June 2006.An audit was done in Sept 2005 on participation levels and they were shown to be at 56%. By June 2006 the partnership achieved participation Levels of 79% passing the PSA target of 75%.In 2010 another PSA target was set for 85% and the partnership again surpassed that and achieved a level of 89%.Governance•Represented Cumbria on the steering group for the EFDS (English Federation for Disabled Sport) North West.•Assisted in planning and policy delivery. •Disseminated steering group direction / policy back to county (Cumbria).

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