National High Performance Director
Role: National High Performance Director
Brand: Surfing Australia
Location: Gold Coast, QLD
Purpose: Support our Australian athletes to become the world’s best surfers & people.
Success: To be successful in this role you will need to be a dynamic and engaging leader with an ability to swiftly build relationships and credibility with international level surfers, coaches, staff and a variety of other stakeholders.
The position has five key areas of responsibility:
- Create the strategy, structure, ways of working & culture to achieve sustainable success for our athletes and coaches at an elite level, ensuring alignment, engagement, and commitment by all surfers across the national network.
- Deliver meaningful performance gains for each prioritised surfer annually & are responsible for SA HP Program meeting annual targets
- Have the world’s best coaches for our athletes. Ensure the development of a critical mass of SA coaches capable of driving performance on the international stage.
- Through a deep understanding of surfing, competitors, equipment, event locations, wave types, surfing manoeuvres, research & innovation deliver our surfers a competitive edge for major events
- Cultivate strong & trusting key stakeholder relationships with the AIS/ASC, AOC, SIS/SAS, Universities, Surf Industry, ISA, WSL, sponsors, inclusive of grant submissions, tracking, reporting and other requirements outlined to ensure the success of our surfers, coaches & HP program.
