Closing date: 19th January 2014

Cricket Victoria in conjunction with the Australian Cricketers’ Association (ACA) and Cricket Australia are seeking a highly motivated Player Development Manager to implement individualised best practice health and wellbeing, career development, education and professional development programs to CV male and female players through effective relationship management.

Cricket Victoria is one of Australia's leading sporting organisations and carries the responsibility of developing cricket throughout the State. From grassroots cricket, to the State’s elite teams - the Commonwealth Bank Bushrangers and VicSpirit - we nurture, promote and grow the sport.

Reporting to the ACA National Player Development & Wellbeing Manager and the General Manager – Cricket, Cricket Victoria, you will be completing and executing comprehensive career assessments on all players. You will be identifying education skills gaps and providing formal advice about education opportunities that will assist players in achieving career plans.

A case management approach will allow you to provide appropriate first incident response to players who present with professional or personal issues. Managing the delivery of all wellbeing programs will be successfully achieved through the building of trusted relationships with players, coaches, cricket operations staff and Cricket Australia.

To succeed in this position, you will have recognised qualifications in psychology, counselling, elite athlete mentoring or at least five years’ experience working in an elite athlete development environment.

You must be able to demonstrate the ability to build relationships across a diverse group of stakeholders and demonstrate an in depth understanding of the on and off field requirements of elite cricketers.

If you are driven, passionate and motivated with a strong desire to succeed apply now!

Applications close 19th January 2014

Applications for this position will be reviewed the week commencing 20th January 2014.