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 - Delivering the ASC’s flagship Sporting Schools program, the Sporting Schools team also drives broader school sport initiatives across Australia. Beyond program delivery, the focus is on strengthening physical literacy, connecting schools with community sport, and supporting lifelong participation. Working closely with national sporting organisations and education partners, the team helps ensure sport in schools is accessible, engaging and relevant.

About the role - As Director of Sporting Schools you will guide a high-performing team to deliver and evolve the program beyond its current footprint, strengthening connections between schools and community sport while embedding quality, inclusion and engagement at the centre of every experience.

You will foster a collaborative, forward-thinking culture within your team, empowering people to innovate, challenge the status quo and continuously improve. If you are energised by the opportunity to influence system-wide change and create meaningful experiences for the next generation, this role offers both scale and purpose in equal measure.

About you - You are a strategic leader who can translate vision into action, with experience delivering large-scale programs that create meaningful impact. You bring strong stakeholder engagement skills, building trusted partnerships across government, education and the sport sector, and have a proven ability to lead and empower high-performing teams within a positive, collaborative and outcomes-focused culture. You are comfortable operating in complexity, balancing competing priorities while maintaining clear direction and focus on outcomes. You are passionate about participation, inclusion and improving the quality of sport experiences for children and young people, and you combine big-picture thinking with practical delivery to ensure ideas are both compelling and achievable at scale.

To be able to effectively perform this role, the successful candidate will have the following essential skills:

• Relevant senior leadership capability, with accountability for delivering large-scale programs or initiatives
• Demonstrated capability leading and managing high-performing teams, including building a positive, inclusive and outcomes-focused culture
• Demonstrated ability to develop and maintain strategic partnerships with varied and diverse stakeholders.
• Relevant experience demonstrating the ability to work as part of an executive or management team.
• Demonstrated capacity to provide clear, timely and influential advice to senior executives to support decision-making
• Strong financial, risk and operational management experience, including business planning, resource allocation and performance monitoring
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to operate effectively across diverse groups and interests
• Relevant tertiary qualifications in Business, Sport Management, Public Policy, Education or a related field (or equivalent experience)

The following skills are desirable:

• Strong track record in delivering and/or overseeing major grant programs (Commonwealth or State), including governance, compliance and stakeholder accountability
• Experience working within or closely with the education sector, particularly school-based sport or physical activity programs
• Experience within a national sporting organisation or similar system-level sport environment
• Understanding of physical literacy, participation strategies and/or national sport policy (particularly alignment with Play Well or similar frameworks)
• Experience in digital product development, program innovation or platform-based delivery models (especially relevant to evolving Sporting Schools)
• Demonstrated experience in co-design approaches with stakeholders, including states/territories, local government and community organisations
• Experience contributing to or leading system-wide reform or transformation initiatives
• Familiarity with data, evaluation and impact measurement approaches to inform program design and improvement
• Experience working in or with government funding environments, including policy alignment and investment frameworks

This position is offered as an ONGOING position.

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.