Australian Sports Commission - Canberra ACT

Applications close at 11:30pm AEST Wednesday 25 November 2026 (late applications will not be accepted).

The Australian Sports Commission is embarking on the Green and Gold decade. An exciting time filled with international sporting competitions on home soil, including the Mens and Womens Rugby World Cup, and culminating in the Brisbane 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games. We have an ambitious new Strategic Vision and we need the best players on our team to help us deliver real results for the sporting sector and all Australians.

Are you up for the challenge?

About the team

The Australian Institute of Sport in Canberra is the premiere high- performance sporting facility in the country.The Site Operations team keeps the AIS campus and other ASC sites safe, functional, reliable and ready to support high-performance sport, commercial activity, events and community use. The team brings together facilities management, venue operations, site security, maintenance and horticulture. We work across AIS Operations and with service providers, contractors, sporting organisations and campus users to maintain essential services, manage operational risk and deliver a well-presented, customer-focused workplace every day.

About the role

As Director Site Operations, you will provide strategic and day to day leadership across facilities management, venue operations, site security, maintenance and horticulture. As the back-of-house lead for the AIS campus, This role is critical to the success of the ASC’s new People and Place operating model, ensuring sites are safe, functional, reliable and ready to support high-performance sport, commercial activity, events and community use.





Working closely with the Directors of Site Experience and Site Strategy, you will connect longer term site priorities with practical, coordinated operations. You will lead multidisciplinary operational teams, set clear priorities and service standards while overseeing workforce and resource allocation, budgets, contracts, service providers, emergency management, incident response, business continuity and operational risk with coordinated operations, programs and experiences that build the positive reputation of the AIS.

This role requires a leader who can navigate complexity, exercise sound judgement and find practical ways forward balancing immediate service demands with longer-term planning. You will provide clear advice to senior leaders, build strong relationships across government, sport and industry, and lead teams through change with sound judgement, accountability and a strong focus on delivery.

Success in this role means creating safe, reliable and high-performing sites, delivering efficient and valuable operations, and ensuring athletes, staff, partners and visitors have a positive experience across AIS facilities.

About you

You are a practical, solutions-focused and experienced operational leader who can navigate competing priorities, make sound decisions and find a way forward in complex environments.

You are comfortable helping establish a new operating model,



translating strategy into coordinated delivery and working as one leadership team across interdependent accountabilities. You will build a trusted, highly collaborative partnership with the Directors of Site Experience and Site Strategy, balancing back of house operational excellence with front of house experience, long-term asset priorities and commercial outcomes.

You will bring:

- Demonstrated senior-level experience in facilities management, operations management, property, security, maintenance or a related operational field.
- Strong operational judgement and problem-solving capability, with demonstrated experience assessing complex issues, balancing risk and operational requirements, and developing practical solutions that enable safe and effective delivery.
- Demonstrated ability to lead multidisciplinary operational teams, set direction, direction and performance expectations, building capability and delivering outcomes across complex and competing priorities.
- Extensive experience managing operational services, contractors, budgets, risks and service performance across a large site, campus, venue or comparable environment.
- Strong knowledge of operational governance, work health and safety, risk management, procurement, contract management, financial management and compliance obligations.
- Demonstrated ability to lead complex services or programs with broad organisational impact, work effectively across teams and clarify shared accountabilities within a new operating model.
- Highly developed stakeholder management, communication, influencing and negotiation skills, including the ability to provide clear advice to senior leaders and governance forums.

📌 Director Site Operations (Canberra)
🏢 Australian Sports Commission
📍 Canberra