Sport Integrity Manager – NSWIS

Sport Integrity Australia; Sydney; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Sport Integrity Australia seeks a Sport Integrity Manager seconded to NSWIS to lead integrity initiatives across high-performance environments. You will develop, educate and embed policy and practices to ensure a fair, safe climate for staff, coaches and athletes.

You will build strong relationships with Sport Integrity Australia and partners, provide strategic risk guidance, and champion safeguarding and child-safe practices within NSWIS.

Qualifications

• Experience with sport integrity initiatives, processes and complaint handling.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and relationship-building experience.
• Excellent oral and written communication, including workshops.
• Ability to work independently and manage competing priorities.
• Proven ability to translate strategy into operational actions.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate the NSWIS sport integrity function, including policy development and improvement.
• Embed safeguarding and child-safe practices across NSWIS.
• Oversee complaints management and provide integrity-related advice.
• Deliver education and capability-building programs to strengthen integrity awareness.
• Develop relationships with Sport Integrity Australia and partner organisations.
• Provide strategic advice on emerging integrity risks and opportunities.
• Foster a safe, fair, and inclusive environment for NSWIS staff and athletes.

Skills

Sport integrity knowledge

Stakeholder engagement

Communication skills

Strategic thinking

Independent work

Job description

The Sport Integrity Manager will be employed by Sport Integrity Australia and seconded to work within the NSW Institute of Sport (NSWIS) to create a fair and safe high-performance environment for staff, coaches and athletes through robust sport integrity practices. You will work closely with Sport Integrity Australia to develop, educate and embed integrity related policies, procedures and practices into all levels at NSWIS.

The key duties of the position include:

• Lead and coordinate the NSWIS’s sport integrity function, including policy development, implementation and continuous improvement of the National Integrity Framework or Sport Integrity Standards
• Embed integrity, safeguarding and child-safe practices across all areas of NSWIS.
• Oversee and deliver complaints management processes and provide advice on the management of integrity-related matters.
• Deliver education and capability-building programs that strengthen integrity awareness and compliance in NSWIS.
• Develop and maintain strong relationships with Sport Integrity Australia, sporting organisations and high-performance sport partners including other SIS/SAS.
• Provide strategic advice on emerging integrity issues, risks and opportunities.
• Foster a safe, fair and inclusive environment for NSWIS athletes, coaches and staff.

The key accountabilities of the Sport Integrity Manager include, but is not limited to:

• Compliance with the obligations set out in the Secondment / Funding Agreement.
• Compliance with all relevant legislation and regulations.
• Ensure confidentiality is maintained at all times.
• Cooperate with the employer and comply with all relevant legislation.
• Work and act safely and take all reasonable care to protect personal health and safety and the health and safety of others.

Selection Criteria

The selection criteria of this role include:

• Demonstrated relevant experience and understanding of sport integrity initiatives, processes, including complaint/reporting mechanisms is desirable.
• Highly developed stakeholder engagement skills and demonstrated experience in developing and maintaining stakeholder relationships.
• Well-developed oral and written communication skills, including the ability to develop and deliver workshops and forums.
• Proven ability to work independently or under limited guidance and ability to manage competing priorities and to influence, drive change and achieve results.
• Proven strategic thinking and the ability to align strategy with operational activities, analysis and insights to enable positive outcomes.

Eligibility

Under section 22(8) of the Public Service Act 1999, employees must be Australian citizens to be employed in the Australian Public Service (APS).

All applicants offered employment will be required to successfully undergo a pre-engagement screening check, even if they have a security clearance. The screening check involves reviewing your background & personal circumstances to minimise risks in giving access to Sport Integrity Australia information/resources. This screening check is conducted in accordance with the Australian Government Protective Security Policy Framework requirements.

The successful applicant must be willing to disclose all relevant and required information.

Use of AI in Recruitment

Sport Integrity Australia may use Microsoft Copilot to support limited administrative aspects of the recruitment process. Artificial Intelligence is not used to assess or select candidates, and all decisions are human-led and based on merit.

Candidates must ensure their application reflects their own skills, experience and abilities. Any use of AI must be responsible, transparent where required, and must not misrepresent their suitability for the role.

Candidates will be asked to disclose their use of AI when submitting an application and may also be asked to so at various stages throughout the recruitment process.

Applicants are encouraged to familiarise themselves with the Principles for us of AI in recruitment as well as the

Principles for agency use of AI in recruitment which outline expectations for the responsible, ethical and transparent use of AI when applying for APS roles.

Getting to know the Sport Integrity Australia

Sport Integrity Australia leads the Australian government’s efforts to protect sport against threats to its integrity – doping, competition manipulation and the mistreatment and abuse of sports participants. Sport Integrity Australia is the cornerstone of the government's comprehensive sport integrity strategy: Safeguarding the Integrity of Sport. Our role is to provide advice and assistance to counter the use of prohibited substances and methods in sport, stop the abuse of children and other persons in a sporting environment, cease manipulation of sporting competitions and to protect members of sporting organisations and other persons in a sporting environment from bullying, intimidation, discrimination or harassment. Sporting organisations, and other stakeholders, benefit from the ability to deal with a single nationally coordinated organisation to address all sport integrity issues. Sport Integrity Australia offers guidance on integrity matters to sports that don’t have developed integrity capabilities. Our focus is policy development, intelligence, investigations (primarily of doping cases), education, outreach and capability building. We are Australia's National Anti-Doping Organisation.