The Wales Workforce Professional Development Board (Wales WPDB) has been established to ensure CIMSPA meets the needs of the Welsh sport and physical activity sector and puts its people at the centre of the picture.
The Sport and Physical Activity Sector Wales Workforce Professional Development Board has been established to ensure that CIMSPA meets the needs of the Welsh sport and physical activity sector and puts its people at the centre of the picture.
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The Sport and Physical Activity Sector Wales Workforce Professional Development Board (WPDB) works alongside the UK WPDB to ensure that the UK strategy is applied appropriately in Wales. The board consists of a diverse range of members from senior leadership positions across the sector including Sport Wales, employers, educational institutions, training providers, national governing bodies, Welsh sporting organisations, specialist in diversity and experts in health and Welsh policy.
The board’s role
The role of the Sport and Physical Activity Sector Wales Workforce Professional Development Board is to:
- align its aims and ambitions with ‘The Vision for Sport’ by working to diversify and support a more inclusive workforce
- highlight the importance of the sport and physical activity sector on the health and wellbeing of Wales and the people behind its impact
- develop comprehensive resources of data and insight to inform decision making at a local and national level
- embed quality and clear pathways in an education system fit for purpose throughout an individual’s career
- change the way that members of the sector workforce in Wales see themselves and their job roles
- encourage local sport and physical activity ecosystems to collaborate through local skills accountability boards.
Board members
Chris Emsley (Chair)
Focus: Developing the workforce and giving the sector a way to connect with one another
Rob Baynham (Vice Chair)
Focus: Promoting continual learning throughout ones career and ensuring further education institutes across Wales are part of the solution.
Catrin Davis
Focus: Ensure work-based learning and education become readily available to the sport and physical activity sector.
Chloe Jordan
Focus: Advocating for more youth voice in decision making roles in sport and physical activity
Clare Jeffries
Focus: Work in partnership with wider stakeholders to ensure fit for purpose, high quality and engaging professional development programmes
Felicitie Walls
Wales Council for Voluntary Action (WCVA)
Focus: Advocate for the volunteer workforce in Wales and advise to create robust systems to support volunteers in sport and physical activity in Wales
Eleanor Ower
Focus: Diversifying the workforce in Wales
Dr Gareth Downey
Focus: Supporting the sector to access suitable qualifications that meet the needs of learners, employers and providers in Wales
Lee Jones
Focus: Acting as a voice for leisure employers across the sector to ensure people are inspired to work in leisure, health and wellbeing
Mark Jones
Focus: Ensure that the outdoor sector has an equal representation and recognition as the rest of the sporting sector
Mike Parry
Focus: Evolve skills development at a local level to harness the sectors potential.
Nic Beggs
Focus: Acting as a voice for leisure employers across the sector to ensure people can enjoy lifelong careers, with ample opportunity progression, and how stakeholders play a role in this.
Dr Rachael Newport
Focus: Ensuring there is disability representation, and the sector is accessible
Rhian Pearce
Focus: Assessing the skills and the workforce of the sector whilst highlighting the impact to the health sector
Robyn Lock
Focus: To professionally recognise the workforce and help them realise their impact on the population in Wales
Sian Rees
Focus: Supporting CIMSPA to ensure what is being offered is fit for purpose for performance sport organisation and high-performance workforce in Wales
Steph Makuvise
Focus: Ensuring that the sector is representative of the ethnic diversity that exists in Wales.
Steve Osborne FCIMSPA (Chartered)
Cardiff Metropolitan University
Focus: Enabling data informed decision making across the sector
Steve Woodfine
Focus: To support CIMSPA in aligning to Welsh Government legislation and interpreting sport and physical activity policies and articles specific to Wales
Tom Sharp
Focus: Giving WSA members a voice in workforce development whilst developing resilience across the sector
Victoria Waters
Focus: To highlight how CIMSPA can support the strategic vision for developing the aquatic workforce across Wales
The Vision for the Welsh Sport and Physical Activity Workforce
The Welsh Professional Development board is ambitious and wants to see workforce planning, development and management at the heart of the Welsh sport and physical activity. The Vision for Welsh S&PA Workforce underpinned the work of the board.
