Job Description

As the Area Manager, you'll lead a team responsible for supporting local clubs and leagues, ensuring community rugby league is delivered safely, effectively and continues to grow. You'll work closely with a wide range of stakeholders, driving participation, strengthening capability and making sure the game runs smoothly across your area. You'll be hands‑on in delivering programmes, supporting volunteers and building strong relationships, all while ensuring compliance and governance standards are met.

Responsibilities:

- Drive the delivery of local and statewide participation programs, with a focus on growth, retention and accessibility across your area.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with clubs, leagues, schools, government and other key stakeholders to support the ongoing development of the game.
- Support the recruitment, development and retention of volunteers, ensuring clubs have the capability to operate effectively.
- Ensure competitions and operations run smoothly, identifying risks and working proactively to resolve issues.
- Monitor and drive compliance with QRL and NRL policies, legislation and governance requirements.
- Use data and insights, including Club Health Checks, to identify opportunities and improve performance across your area.
- Support facility planning and audits to ensure infrastructure supports future participation growth.
- Promote inclusive participation opportunities, including programmes supporting women, Indigenous and remote communities.
- Represent QRL in your region, promoting rugby league and identifying opportunities for partnerships and funding.
- Lead and support your team to deliver on key priorities, providing coaching, direction and day‑to‑day guidance to ensure outcomes are achieved.

This is a full‑time position based in either Townsville or Cairns. QRL remunerates based on the position to ensure gender pay equity in sport, with a salary of $92,000 plus superannuation and a car.





Benefits include five weeks annual leave each year, an allocation of funds for professional development and other attractive benefits.

About the Candidate

A genuine passion for sport and an understanding of the important role it plays in bringing communities together. You'll be confident working with a wide range of stakeholders and able to lead a remote team to deliver strong outcomes in a fast‑paced environment.

Qualifications and experience:

- Experience in a leadership or area‑based role, ideally within sport or a not‑for‑profit environment.
- Robust relationship‑building skills, with the ability to work effectively with volunteers, clubs, boards and government stakeholders.
- Proven ability to deliver programmes or projects within set timeframes.
- A solid understanding of governance, compliance and operating within structured frameworks.
- Excellent organisational and time‑management skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities.
- Confidence navigating challenges and resolving complex stakeholder issues.
- Flexibility to travel and work hours that reflect the realities of community sport as this is not your normal 9:00 am–5:00 pm gig.

We adhere to the highest standards of child safeguarding. All applicants must be eligible to obtain a Working with Children Check (Blue Card). In addition, as part of the recruitment process applicants must be willing to undergo all relevant probity checks, which may include reference checks, employment history verification, identity confirmation, criminal history checks and other assessments as required.

We are committed to creating an inclusive environment that is representative of everyone in our Rugby League community. We encourage applications from people of all genders and ages, First Nations peoples, individuals with disabilities, LGBTQ+ individuals and people from multicultural communities. Please let us know if there are any reasonable adjustments we can make to the recruitment process to assist your application.

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