Are you passionate about promoting fairness, safety, and integrity in sports? Snow Australia is looking for a dedicated and experienced National Integrity Manager to help champion integrity across all levels of snow sports in Australia. This unique and flexible role (0.8 - 1 FTE) involves working closely with Snow Australia and the Olympic Winter Institute of Australia (OWIA) to implement the National Integrity Framework and support policies that ensure a clean and safe sporting environment.

As the National Integrity Manager, you will be at the forefront of safeguarding processes, providing education, conducting investigations, and managing complaint handling to uphold integrity standards. This role is perfect for someone who thrives on creating tangible outcomes, engaging with diverse stakeholders, and fostering a positive sporting culture.

About the Role

The National Integrity Manager is responsible for supporting Snow Australia and the Olympic Winter Institute of Australia (OWIA) to provide a safe, clean, and fair sport for all participants through:

• Education and awareness of the National Integrity Framework and supporting policies;
• Championing and supporting continuous improvement in safeguarding processes;
• Being the point of contact for integrity and complaint related matters;
• Triaging and conducting investigations as required; and  
• Ensuring transparent, effective and pragmatic integrity processes.

This role may require some regional and interstate travel.

Key Duties

The duties of the National Integrity Manager include, but are not limited to the following:

• Continue to embed the National Integrity Framework policies and supporting practices across all levels of the sport.
• Engage and educate on integrity topics and policies across all levels of the sport. This will include visiting athlete and club daily training environments (DTE's) to provide education and information.
• Support continuous improvement in safeguarding processes across all levels of the sport.
• Be the point of contact for integrity and complaints related matters.
• Manage the complaint handling process in accordance with relevant policies and in partnership with other stakeholders, including Sport Integrity Australia.
• Develop/maintain a complaint management system, ensuring all current and historical matters are recorded, with case progress tracked through accurate and timely data entry.
• Develop and manage other relevant policies, guidelines and processes that support the National Integrity Framework.
• Provide regular integrity and safeguarding updates to the Board and relevant sub-committees.
• Ensure compliance with integrity policy requirements and National Child Safe Principles and provide reports demonstrating compliance as required. 
• Liaise with Sport Integrity Australia to stay up to date with integrity trends, risks and best practice and share with key stakeholders.
• Other office and non-office administration duties as required.

Selection Criteria

The selection criteria for the National Integrity Manager include:

• Ability to develop and maintain sustainable and effective operational relationships with a range of internal and external stakeholders. 
• Ability to engage diverse stakeholder groups on challenging topics. 
• Ability to inspire and champion best practice integrity from Board level to athlete.
• Ability to distil policies into practical and pragmatic processes that deliver tangible outcomes.  
• Experience developing, evaluating or implementing key organisation policy.
• Understanding of strategic thinking to align operational activities with corporate goals.
• High level of personal integrity. 
• Approachability and strong liaison, interpersonal and negotiation skills, including the ability to develop and maintain productive working relationships and influence change.
• Availability to travel to Australian snow resorts and local communities
• Well-developed oral and written communication skills, with an approachable manner.
• Demonstrated strong record-keeping and problem-solving skills. 
• Ability to evaluate and manage complaint/misconduct assessments in a fair and impartial manner.
• Experience in managing discreet, sensitive and confidential information.
• Ability to manage priorities across two different organisations, demonstrating sound organisational and time management skills. 
• Must be able to demonstrate an understanding of appropriate behaviours when engaging with Children.
• Demonstrated experience in the Australian sport sector, particularly in the provision of advice in areas including member protection, child safeguarding, Anti-Doping and corruption in sport. (Desirable) 
• Relevant tertiary qualifications or demonstrated experience in sport management, law, governance or related field. (Desirable)

Other Requirements

Snow Australia / OWIA are committed to protecting Children/Young People from harm. We require all applicants that will work with Children/Young People to undergo an extensive screening process prior to appointment, including but not limited to the following:

• Working with Vulnerable People / Working with Children Check (or ability to obtain one) and willingness to undergo a National Police / Criminal History Check