Head of Community Cricket Operations

🏏 Join Cricket Victoria – as our Head of Community Cricket Operations.

At Cricket Victoria, we love our sport, but what really matters to us is people. We’re here to create experiences that bring out the best in our staff, players, volunteers, and community. We’re proud of our fun, inclusive, and high-performance culture – and we’re looking for someone who shares that passion.

We have an exciting opportunity for a Head of Community Cricket Operations to join our Premier and Community Cricket team to lead the statewide system that supports associations, clubs, umpires, coaches and volunteers. Working closely with the Customer Experience team, the role delivers community-focused operational programs including umpire development, coach education, volunteer support, safeguarding and essential administration.

💪 The Role

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide strategic leadership of the Community Cricket Operations function, delivering a unified statewide system that supports associations, clubs, umpires, coaches and volunteers across Victoria.
• Lead umpire development through oversight of the State Umpiring Specialist and Umpire Coaches, driving both high-performance and community development frameworks.
• Strengthen coach development pathways, increasing accessibility and progression opportunities, particularly for women and young people entering coaching roles.
• Oversee the effective utilisation and continuous improvement of digital platforms including OfficialsHQ, CA LMS, PlayHQ and e-scoring to enhance servicing, capability development and operational efficiency.
• Ensure strong governance, integrity and safeguarding practices are embedded across all community cricket operations, providing clear guidance and compliance support to stakeholders.
• Build and maintain trusted relationships with peak bodies (VSDCA, VCCL, VMCU), VCAUSA, local government, Cricket Australia and internal CV departments to drive alignment and shared outcomes.

🎯 About You

Essential:

• Demonstrated leadership experience across community sport or similar stakeholder environments.
• Strong understanding of community cricket operations, including umpiring, coaching and club development systems.
• High-level communication, relationship management and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Ability to lead multidisciplinary teams and deliver coordinated operational outcomes.
• Experience with digital systems used in sport (e.g., LMS, OfficialsHQ, PlayHQ, CRM).
• Working With Children Check (Employee).

Desirable:

• Experience managing community sport or officiating programs.
• You have a strong eye for detail and take pride in delivering accurate, high-quality work.
• You recognise that strong relationships are fundamental to delivering sustainable outcomes.
• Familiarity with Victorian cricket structures, Premier Cricket and pathway environments.

🏆 Why Join Cricket Victoria?

Cricket Victoria is one of Australia’s leading sporting organisations and the proud home of Victorian cricket, including the Melbourne Stars and Melbourne Renegades. Based at the state-of-the-art CitiPower Centre, we provide a high-performance environment where innovation, collaboration, and wellbeing are at the heart of what we do.

You will play a key role in supporting and delivering cultural and operational alignment across the Community Cricket Operations team.

🎁 The Benefits

• Flexible working arrangements to support work-life balance
• Tickets to a range of sporting events (yes — this includes cricket!)
• Free onsite gym access
• Corporate health insurance offers
• Exclusive corporate partner discounts
• Additional week of leave each year
• A casual, friendly and inclusive culture – our top priority!

Applications close 5pm Thursday 12 March 2025.

At Cricket Victoria, we embrace diversity in gender, age, ethnicity, disability, religion and sexual orientation. We are committed to providing a safe environment for children across Australian Cricket and we also offer a flexible work environment for all employees.

We measure ourselves on our ideals – “Leading the Game”; our shared ideals have the power to create positive change and deliver excellence for our customers, colleagues, and communities. Our people value integrity, connection, accountability, respect and excellence.

We require all applicants to undergo background checks and screening prior to or during any appointment. Australian Cricket’s Commitment Statement to Safeguarding Children and Young People can be found at www.cricketaustralia.com.au/safeguarding