The Queensland Academy of Sport’s mission is to inspire extraordinary sporting success. We recently brought this mission to life when 191 Queensland athletes proudly wore green and gold while representing Australia at the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Paris 2024 will go down in history as Australia’s best ever Games, setting the bar high for the next Olympic and Paralympic cycle.  The QAS is now on a mission to deliver more medals across more sports at the Los Angeles 2028 Games, in anticipation of hosting Australia’s most successful Games in Queensland in 2032.

The QAS supports more than 500 elite athletes on their sporting journey from talented juniors to Olympians, Paralympians and World Champions. Our expert staff support athletes through in-house programs, partnerships with State and National Sporting Organisations, and individualised support for athletes on medal-winning trajectories to help them perform when it matters most.

Our ambitious high-performance strategy for the 2032 Games is to create more medal-winning moments for Queensland athletes that inspire their state and nation. While this strategy defines our goals, our organisation’s culture is what will help us achieve them. Therefore, the QAS is looking for highly talented and motivated individuals whose values and behaviours align with ours, to join our QAS Team.

Reporting to the Senior High Performance Manager, we're seeking a High Performance Manager - Athletics.

The roles and responsibilities include:

• Create a collaborative environment and facilitate open, consistent, and honest communication between Athletics Australia (AA), Athletics Queensland (AQ), wider QAS and system partners in relation to progress and achievement of stated objectives.
• Facilitate strong, deliberate and productive relationships with athletes, coaches and performance support team to support and enable them to develop robust and effective athlete plans that are aligned to the ‘What It Takes To Win’ (WITTW) framework to increase the likelihood of medal outcomes.
• Assisting in the identification and development of network coaches by contributing to their development plans, performance reviews and professional development.
• Working with the personal coach, monitor and evaluate progress against athlete plans and proactively assist in the development of solutions to complex, high performance problems.
• Effectively collaborating with the Athletics Australia and QAS data teams to ensure quality data insights are used to inform evidenced based decision making.  
• Assisting in the management of internal sport operational budgets, travel plans and yearly plans.
• In collaboration with, and support of the personal coaches, provide leadership and management to the QAS Performance Support staff to ensure athletes are optimally supported and high performance outcomes are achieved, including:
  • Facilitating performance team meetings and athlete tracker meetings to review athlete progress, maximise training availability, identify actionable insights and ensure resources are being appropriately invested to maximise impact.
  • Managing the Performance Teams to leverage collective expertise and ensure purposeful collaboration towards the agreed performance outcome

When submitting your application, ensure you attach copies of all mandatory and desirable qualifications and accreditations.

The Queensland Academy of Sport (QAS) is committed to the safety and wellbeing of our athletes.

We are committed to an environment where athletes from any background are heard, treated fairly and free from abuse.

If you're interested in learning more, please have a look at the role description and give our team a call to discuss the role.

Applications to remain current for 12 months.