Opportunity to join SA’s premier high performance sport institute.
Work across a broad range of Paralympic sports and disciplines.
Based at SASI’s new state-of-the-art high performance sport facility.
The Para-Sport Hub Lead is a new position which will establish and lead a team of up to five coaches and performance support professionals with the collective goal of recruiting and developing talented South Australian para-sport athletes. The outcome will be an increase in the number of categorised para-athletes in South Australia to enable greater representation and medal success at the LA 2028 and Brisbane 2032 Paralympic Games.
A key priority of the role is leadership and management of the team to enable effective:
Talent identification and talent transfer initiatives.
Sport selection for eligible athletes.
Para-sport pathway identification in South Australia, para-sport classification.
Athlete development.
Performance support delivery.
Health, wellbeing and risk mitigation within the sport environment.
Inclusion of para-sports and para-athletes within SASI and partner organisations.
The role involves extensive external stakeholder relationships with Paralympics Australia, National and State Sporting Organisations and the Australian Institute of Sport. As a new role in the national sport system, there will be a high degree of sharing, collaborating and learning, in line with the National 2032 Win Well High Performance Sport Strategy.
