Drives and enables the strategic and transparent allocation of total integrated resources and investment through a collaborative, evidence and principles-based approach to sports and athletes.

Sport Strategy

Manager: Vacant

Collaborates with sports, high performance system colleagues and key stakeholders to develop evidenced-based and future focussed sport specific performance strategies. This contributes to maximising Australia’s high performance system goals and achieving key performance indicators.

Sport Investment, Insights and Analytics

Manager: Phil Loong

Develops evidenced-based, customised models, frameworks and systems to support sport balanced investment decisions to achieve sustainable improvements in high performance outcomes. Provides high quality analysis and evidence, aligned with AIS strategic objectives.

Athlete Talent and Development

National Elite Pathway Manager: Vacant

Leads NSOs in the planning, development, coordination and delivery of partnerships, strategies, research and approaches to establish contemporary and sport-relevant elite athlete pathways that successfully identify, nurture and develop talented athletes.

Collaborates with the National Institute Network to consult and support sport to implement their agreed high performance strategic plans, and to facilitate professional networks in key performance service disciplines.

Performance Consultancy

Sport Performance Consultants: Chris O’Brien, Terry Evans, Tudor Bidder, Nick Hunter

Leads the development of effective frameworks that support sports to implement robust operational plans and budgets that are aligned to agreed strategic plans.  Leads the engagement with sports to implement agreed priority campaigns through high quality, performance-focused delivery strategies that increases the likelihood of achieving and sustaining performance targets.

Professional Networks

Manager: Alison Campbell

Leads the development of multi-discipline professional networks including professional sport services, technical leads from within sport and the National Institute Network. This includes quality assurance of professional networks standards and practice.

The vision of the Athlete Wellbeing and Engagement Section is for Australian athletes to learn, thrive and contribute to the community during their time in high performance sport and life afterwards.

The Athlete and Wellbeing team leads and supports Australia’s sporting industry to understand that a successful high performance culture relies on athletes finding the right balance between wellbeing, engagement in activities outside of training and competition, and the requirements of their elite sport. A cornerstone of this work is the development, with NSOs, an Athlete and Wellbeing Framework unique to each sport which outlines a model of service delivery to support the wellbeing of all athletes within the high performance system.

he Athlete and Wellbeing team has four streams, outlined below, which will develop system capability to provide for athlete personal development, wellbeing and engagement with the community.

Career and Education

Careers and Education Consultant: Ros Holding

Provide information, advice and face to face or online learning related to education, career mapping, professional development and work experience. As well as providing education and leadership to the National Institute Network and NSO athlete and wellbeing managers.

Conduct and Professionalism

Manager: Richard Redman

Provide sector leadership in the provision of expert advice on managing ethical decision-making issues and immediate next steps based on legal mandate, professional codes, Sport Australia/AIS code of conduct, policies and procedures. As well as providing access to education, expertise and mentoring regarding responsible behaviours specific to elite sport.

Mental Health

Mental Health Manager: Matt Butterworth

Access best practice mental health information, advice and services for current and former athletes including crisis care and critical incident management. The development of a national Mental Health Referral Network for athletes is a first of its kind initiative for sport, providing 24-hour critical incident support for athletes.

For further enquiries please email mentalhealth@sportaus.gov.au

Community Engagement

Engagement Manager: Adam Woolnough

Provide opportunities for community engagement and networking events and digital engagement connecting Australian Athletes with athlete wellbeing and engagement activities. Providing opportunities for athletes to connect to the community at local and national level. As well as engage in speaking engagements and activities to increase individual and squad profiles.

Leads the transformation of the Australian high performance workforce and to better understand its impact by using an evidence-based approach. A focus on recruiting, developing and improving the people who support the athletes. This includes the coaches, performance directors and CEOs and helping them to create high performance teams.

For enquires regarding the AIS Centre for Performance Coaching and Leadership

Sport People

Manager: Sonya Thompson

Engages with sports to identify the current and future needs of their performance people, with a focus on high performance coaches, performance directors and CEOs, in the areas of:

• recruitment
• individual
• collective development and impact

They lead the design and implementation of systemic and customised solutions to enhance a sport’s performance data, informed by diagnostics, and performance people metrics.

Sport Talent and Analytics

Manager: Vacant

Designs and establishes best practice approaches to the recruitment and performance management of people for the high performance system. They will lead the behavioural data strategy to support decision making and measure impact and the systems and models for collecting and reporting key performance metrics to support business and strategic people investment decisions in the sports system.

Learning Innovation

Manager: Vacant

Leads, innovates and develops new and systemic approaches to support and grow a learning culture across Australia’s high performance system. Develops a range of diverse high performance learning solutions to meet future system needs and lead the engagement with a team of specialist cross sector learning specialists and consultants.

Leads a collaborative sports research, applied technology and innovation program delivering performance advantage. Through clearly prioritised channels of research, multi-disciplinary expert programs, technical expertise and solutions in areas where a unified or nationwide approach is appropriate.

Sports Engineering

Senior Sports Engineer: Damien Carter

Primary focus on Sailing.  Leads the technical project, as well as contributing to engineering projects undertaken by the AIS. Strong experience in data collection, weather systems, engineered hardware and all things sailing. This position is located at Australian Sailing Centre.

Senior Sports Engineer: Andy Warr

Primary focus on cycling. Leads the technical project, as well as contributing to engineering projects undertaken by the AIS. Strong experience in engineering design, data collection and all of cycling’s technical projects. This position works out of Cycling Australia’s Adelaide Velodrome.

Senior Sports Engineer: Matthew Crawford

Primary focus on Paralympic sport equipment. Constantly developing new equipment for Para-athletes including custom seats and bio interfaces to provide performance advantage to our athletes.

Senior Sports Engineer: Andy Richardson

Strong background at the high level of Australian motorsport. Andy leads our engineering workshop team and provides engineering expertise to all sports with technical challenges.

Senior Sports Engineer: Tim Kelly

Leads the AIS Research and Development team. This team leads research channel identification, funding and PhD projects as well as overseeing development and implementation of these research initiatives as they mature.

Gold Medal Ready Program

Manager: Rosie Stanimirovic

Manages a multi-sport program that assists athletes to be world best in converting medal potential into mental readiness to deliver Gold Medals at major events, especially Olympic Games.

Athlete Availability

Manager: Mick Drew

Implements health improvement and injury/illness prevention programs and professional practices to increase the availability of high performance and emerging athletes, to allow them to continue to train and compete successfully throughout their career. As well as growing sport professionals’ knowledge and skills to implement athlete availability programs, through the development implementation of tools and education programs.

Video and Machine Learning

Specialist: Stuart Morgan

Develops machine learning technology and its applied outcomes to optimise the Australian high performance training and competition environments. Undertakes design and execution of projects using advanced techniques in data capture, analysis and machine learning, to generate competitive advantage for Australian athletes, coaches and their support teams.

Athlete Management System

Manager: Todd Ryall

Leads and manages the national implementation of the Athlete Management System to monitor high performance athletes and ensure that the data produced will provide decision support for athletes, coaches, scientists, clinicians and other key system partners. Interfaces with the National Institute Network, National Sporting Organisations, sport science, sport medicine practitioners and coaches to achieve successful data outcomes.

Provides the organisational platform for the AIS to deliver its strategy including targeted world-class programs at the Canberra and ETC sites that provide unique, impactful services to the high performance system. This includes National Sporting Organisations camps, pre-elite programs, Centres of Excellence, altitude/environment programs and complex rehabilitation.

Performance Operations

Manager: Dion Russell

Manages the delivery of AIS high performance site operations to support NSO Centres of Excellence, NSO high performance camp servicing, pre-elite camps and other high performance related site activities. Oversees and supports the management of the European Training Centre based in Italy.  Supports Sport Australia organisational planning, reporting and governance requirements and discrete projects as well as budget management, international relations and the AIS support for the onsite residential athlete accommodation.

For enquiries regarding AIS High Performance Camps
For enquiries regarding the European Training Centre

Performance Services

Manager: Julian Jones

Provides specialised multi-disciplinary team of sport scientists and practitioners to deliver performance services to support Canberra campus based high performance activities including NSO elite, pre-elite and development, complex rehabilitation and altitude house camps. Oversees the management and quality assurance of AIS Canberra campus based high performance sports science and sports medicine equipment and the AIS High Performance Centre facility dedicated to supporting the provision of sport science and sports medicine services to Australia’s national sporting network.

AIS Medical Centre

Chief Medical Officer: Dr David Hughes

Combines sport medicine and physiotherapy expertise to provide a team approach to athlete servicing, delivering quality and timely medical and physiotherapy services to high performance athletes and coaches through both AIS Campus-based Centres of Excellence and agreed high performance camps-based activity. The Centre provides system leadership on aspects of evidence-based best practice, integrity and athlete safety and welfare. The Centre supports the high performance sports system through provision of evidence-based contemporary policies and position statements to ensure best practice.

For enquiries regarding Concussion
For enquiries regarding the Athlete Rehabilitation Centre