About Sport Climbing Australia
Sport Climbing Australia (SCA) is the governing national sport organisation for sport climbing in Australia and the Australian representative of the International Federation of Sport Climbing (IFSC).
Sport climbing made its debut appearance on the Tokyo Olympic Games programme which involved competing across three sport climbing disciplines - speed, bouldering and lead.
Excitingly, Sport Climbing participation is rapidly growing in Australia and SCA is working to leverage current sport development opportunities to implement athlete development pathways, conduct technical workforce development activities, bid for and host world class sport climbing events, develop participation programming that brings new people to our sport and support industry development.
Sport Climbing Australia (SCA) is embarking on an ambitious and exciting new strategy within high performance. As a result, we are currently seeking to recruit our inaugural Performance Pathway Manager, to support our performance objectives leading into Paris 2024, LA 2028 and Brisbane 2032.
*Please note - This is a 12-month fixed-term contract with hopes of extension.
About the role
As the Performance Pathways Manager, you will be responsible for establishing and implementing SCA Performance Pathway strategy to support the identification and development of talented athletes towards future Olympic Games and World Championship events.
Working closely with and reporting directly to the Board your core responsibilities will include:
- Developing, implementing and maintaining a valid and reliable profiling tool for selecting and progressing athletes that aligns with the ‘What It Takes To Win’ Model
- Ensure athletes on the SCA Performance Pathway have the required training spaces, coaching and support services in their daily training environment.
- With support from the Coaching Team, work to implement the first stages of the SCA National Climbing Coach Accreditation Framework.
- Lead and monitor the development of individual athlete performance plans for emerging, developing and podium potential athletes.
- Lead and facilitate closer links and alignment of underpinning talent programs (state, club, or school).
About you
If you are someone with experience in high performance sport programs and have strong knowledge and understanding of athlete and coach development methodologies within the high-performance landscape and looking to be part of an emerging world sport then we would love to hear from you.
The successful person will be self-motivated with the proven ability to lead and inspire a diverse team of volunteers from a remote location.
- As an individual we are looking for someone who strives for excellence, is highly ambitious, operates with integrity and has a proven ability to impact an organisation, athletes, and coaches positively.
- Demonstrated experience in strategy development, strategy execution and stakeholder engagement.
- You will have great people skills and the ability to build and maintain relationships with a broad range of individuals.
- Experience identifying and confirming talent (talent selection and/or talent transfer) within a sports environment.
- Relevant Tertiary qualifications &/or experience.
- Demonstrated ability to analyse the effectiveness of the performance pathway and identify system and technical interventions to increase the progression of athletes within it.
Next steps:
Click the ‘apply’ button, review the position description, follow the prompts, and submit your CV.
Applications close 11:59pm Sunday 6 August 2023.
This is a newly created position and a great opportunity to positively impact a growing organisation.
Apply today.