Chief Executive Officer - Netball ACT
- Lead and grow an evolving State Sport Organisation
- Strategic operational leadership and commercialisation focus
- Lyneham (Canberra) location
Netball ACT (NACT) is the peak body for Netball in the Australian Capital Territory with the purpose to inspire and grow the sport of netball. NACT is made up of six Member Associations across Canberra. Celebrating its Golden Jubilee in 2025, and with a new Strategic Plan in development, now is an exciting time to join NACT as it leverages the 2027 World Cup being held in Sydney. To ensure NACT continues to deliver on its strategic priorities, the organisation will focus on growing participation and customer engagement, while working to realise the untapped value in its asset portfolio.
Reporting to the Board of Directors, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) is responsible for the strategic direction and day to day management of the organisation. This includes leading staff to drive and deliver against the strategic plan to achieve success across the key areas of Play, Inspire, Grow and Lead.
To be considered for this role you will have experience in strategic leadership, business management and financial acumen plus the ability to drive NACT to be a sustainable and high performing sporting body. You will have a proven track record of securing and maintaining commercial partnerships and be comfortable operating within a results driven environment.
The role requires an influential and collaborative leader, with a proven track record of working with a Board and successfully managing business tasks and operations whilst maintaining a focus on medium-long term strategic priorities. With strong analytical, critical thinking and problem-solving ability paired with a passion for continual improvement, you will be skilled at identifying opportunities to streamline systems and processes and manage operational and cultural changes that promote business efficiencies and raise the standard of member service.
The ability to engage and develop lasting, positive relationships with the stakeholder family (including Netball Australia, Government, members, staff, volunteers and commercial partners) is key to success in this role.
While prior experience in a comparable CEO role will be highly regarded, candidates ready to apply experiences gained from a similarly scaled leadership role will also be considered. Experience from within a sport or not-for-profit member based organisation would be an advantage.
This is a unique opportunity to lead the growth of an evolving state sport organisation. A background in netball is not required; however you must be committed to driving the growth of all levels of netball throughout the ACT.
How to Apply
Please note Sportspeople Recruitment will commence screening and interviewing for this role immediately. If you are intending to apply, please do so now.
Applications close: 5pm Wednesday 5 November, 2025 - we reserve the right to close the role early if sufficient merit applications are received.
Application Format: Candidates must complete and submit the COMPULSORY Sportspeople Recruitment Application Form (attached to this advertisement) at the time of applying. The Form contains questions against which we require your specific response prior to considering your application. Sportspeople Recruitment prefers a 2 page letter of introduction and a CV of no more than 6 pages, merged into the Application Form as one MS Word file.
The Chief Executive Officer, Netball ACT search and recruitment process is being managed exclusively by Sportspeople Recruitment - our 277th CEO search.
In the first instance general enquiries should be directed to Scott Oakhill on 0408 258 337 or FREECALL AU 1800 634 388 or +61 2 9555 5000.
