This is an opportunity to lead one of Australia's fastest growing sports in the state with the largest participation base.

This is an opportunity to lead one of Australia's fastest growing sports in the state with the largest participation base. As the peak body for baseball in NSW, Baseball NSW leads, manages, promotes, advances and encourages the growth of baseball in NSW.

Baseball NSW plays a key role in strengthening the game by driving participation growth across all aspects and functions necessary to conduct the sport and the growth, development and encouragement of members to reach their full potential no matter their ability.

The organisation oversees a range of competitions, events, activities, game and player development programs. Through its membership, Baseball NSW represents over 150 clubs and associations encompassing more than 16,000 players, participants, officials and volunteers.

Positioned to deliver a comprehensive change agenda with the recent release of our Playball NSW Strategic Plan, BNSW is seeking a high calibre individual to deliver on the promise of the strategy and lead the organization as Chief Executive Officer through a period of growth, driving stakeholder engagement and improving participation and baseball experiences across NSW.

The Role

Reporting to the Board of Directors, you will be responsible for advancing the delivery of the organisations’ strategic and commercial imperatives by leading a dedicated cross-functional team to provide a range of existing and proposed services to members. Other key mandates include supporting or directly administering broad and inclusive participation programs,



delivering best-in-class high performance player development programs and securing new and adjacent funding streams to re-investment back into our community.

You are a dynamic, motivated and commercially astute leader, with experience engaging and developing positive relationships with a diverse range of stakeholders. You are an innovative thinker capable of identifying and capitalizing on opportunities and delivering them in a timely manner.

You possess demonstrable experience driving positive cultural change, navigating and prioritizing complex issues, managing and delivering key initiatives. Ideally, you will have experience working with Local Council, State and Federal Government, and exhibit a successful track record managing a member-based organisation and working with volunteers.

Qualifications and Experience

- Leading a team or organisation through cultural change - demonstrate key successes achieved
- Effective relationship building and stakeholder management
- Key spokesperson for an organisation - demonstrated ability to represent the organisation and deliver messages clearly and with confidence
- Well-developed strategic planning and implementation skills
- Leading a team promoting diversity, inclusiveness and equality
- Brand development and delivery
- Tertiary qualifications in a relevant area

Professional Skills and Attributes





In addition to demonstrating relevant experiences across the core functional areas of responsibility identified, candidates applying for the CEO role will require a range of personal and professional skills, including:

- An understanding of the workings and demands of a sport and/or membership-based organisation
- An ability to lead and manage multiple stakeholders
- Outstanding presentation and communication skills with the experience to be a respected spokesperson and relationship builder
- Ability to lead a peak sporting body which operates within a strategic membership support framework
- A proven record of managing the financial operations, compliance and risk management of an organisation in a transparent, efficient and professional manner
- Highly developed interpersonal skills including advanced negotiation and communication skills
- Excellent coalition-building skills, an engaging interpersonal style with the ability to communicate and work effectively with a variety of internal and external stakeholders
- Experience in working within a sporting and/or volunteer organisation is desirable
- A successful track‑record in business development and strategic planning
- Ability to work effectively with a Board of Directors and to cultivate existing board member relationships
- An understanding of baseball is highly desirable but not essential.

Personal and Behavioural Attributes:

- Highly developed work ethic and energy level
- Action-oriented, adaptable, and innovative approach to business planning and execution
- Creative, with an ability to encourage innovation and to champion recent initiatives
- A keen sense of a member as the primary customer, and an unwave

📌 Chief Executive Officer (Sydney)
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