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  Sport and Recreation Instruction  
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History:

  • Involvement in competitive sport and recreation for most of life, including field hockey and motor sport, and most recently cycling.
     
  • Executive Officer of the West Australian Squash Association – overall management of sporting organisation, including identification of player groups, assessing current and future trends, development of membership packages, organisation of major tournaments, volunteer management, sourcing of government grants, and sponsorship packaging.
     
  • West Australian Ministry of Sport and Recreation – member of publication committee for glossy magazine, Business of Sport. Publisher of SportsWatch industry newsletter.
     
  • Media Manager and member of organising committee for Targa Tasmania – major event management, including identification of competitor groupings, risk management, volunteer management.
     
  • Cycling Adventures Tasmania – delivery of basic bicycle riding courses for schools.
     
  • CyclingSouth – development, design and delivery of school holiday activity program for children; development, design and delivery of courses for cyclists to learn to ride and further develop skills, and on bicycle mechanics; sourcing of funding for training programs through grants and sponsorship; risk management; conduct of surveys to assess participation and to segment audiences; report to management committee and other stakeholders.
 

Knowledge
and Skills:

  • Program identification
    1. Need
    2. Audience Identification
    3. Outcomes of other programs
    4. Required national/regional standards
    5. Budgets
    6. Personnel and equipment
    7. Sponsorship and/or grant potential
    8. Risk
       
  • Design
    1. Desired outcomes
    2. Skills assessment
    3. Methods for developing skills
    4. Activities program
    5. Instruction
    6. Venue
    7. Personnel
    8. Venue and equipment arrangements
    9. Participant booking procedures
    10. Contingencies
       
  • Delivery
    1. Instructional style
    2. Activities delivery
    3. Risk management
    4. Participant achievement and satisfaction
    5. Feedback and review
       
  • Management
    1. Data collection and assessment
    2. Grant and sponsorship generation
    3. Identification of market/audience segments
    4. Sourcing of paid and volunteer personnel
    5. Personnel training
    6. Benchmarks and key performance indicators
    7. Budgets and financial management
 

 
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