The Australian Sports Commission is embarking on the Green and Gold decade. An exciting time filled with international sporting competitions on home soil, including the Men’s and Women’s Rugby World Cup, and culminating in the Brisbane 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games. We have an ambitious new Strategic Vision and we need the best players on our team to help us deliver real results for the sporting sector and all Australians.

Are you up for the challenge?

About the team - The Sport Wellbeing and Engagement Branch’s leads the high performance systems’ approach to the wellbeing through the delivery of targeted programs, services and partnerships that enables the system to win well. The Branch prioritises the development and delivery of integrated, holistic services and programs that are designed to improve an athletes’ ability to effectively navigate their high performance pathway and to enable them to achieve sustained success as a person and in their athletic pursuits

About the role - In this role you will apply your expert knowledge and understanding of Australia's high performance system and the bespoke wellbeing needs of para-athletes to identify, develop or advise on system-wide opportunities and solutions to enhance the wellbeing experience of para-athletes. You will work closely with staff across the Sport Wellbeing and Engagement Branch and other internal and externals partners to collaborate on the implementation of priorities under the HP2032+ Win Well Strategy, including the Para Uplift.

About you - We are looking for a compassionate, adaptable, strategic thinker and collaborator who has extensive contemporary knowledge of para sport, social welfare issues impacting para-athletes and the high performance pathways for para-athlete within the Australian high-performance system.

The successful candidate will have:

• Tertiary qualifications and/or demonstrated experience in areas such as: project and program management; strategy development; education; advocacy or related field.
• Demonstrated experience in successfully designing, implementing and evaluating professional development programs to increase technical knowledge and capability.
• Demonstrated understanding of Australia’s high performance sport system.
• Demonstrated contemporary knowledge of wellbeing, including social welfare issues, specific to para athletes within Australia’s high performance system.
• Demonstrated understanding of Classification and its role in Paralympic sport and specifically how this relates to wellbeing outcomes is preferable.
• Demonstrated success in engaging and managing relationships and working collaboratively with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders to achieve outcomes for targeted population groups.
• Demonstrated high level organisation skills.
• High level of written and communication skills.

This position is offered as an ONGOING role. 

Why work with us?

We have offices located in Canberra, Melbourne and Sydney.  Across all locations, we offer:

• Options for flexible working arrangements.
• Annual allowances towards training based on individualised career goals.
• Access to a customised ASC L&D calendar for ongoing professional and career development.
• Generous superannuation scheme with up to 15.4% employer contributions.
• Corporate discount on AIS Shop merchandise.
• Access to Clearinghouse for Sport, an information sharing platform for Sporting professionals.

Additionally, our Canberra campus offers:

• Free onsite parking
• Onsite facilities including café, dining hall, gym, and swimming pool.
• Priority placement for your children to access the award winning, onsite AIS Caretaker’s Cottage Childcare Centre.

Acknowledgement of Country

The Australian Sports Commission (ASC) acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of the lands where its offices are located, the Ngunnawal people and recognises any other people or families with connection to the lands of the ACT and region, the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung people of the Kulin Nation, the people of the Yugambeh Nation and the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation. The ASC extends this acknowledgment to all the Traditional Custodians of the lands and First Nations peoples throughout Australia and would like to pay respects to all Elders past and present. The ASC recognises the outstanding contribution that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples make to society and sport in Australia and celebrates the power of sport to promote reconciliation and reduce inequality.