Cricket Victoria
Description
Description
Join Cricket Victoria – We’re Hiring a Community Cricket Competitions Manager!
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 Community Cricket Competitions Manager to join our Premier & Community Cricket team to enable and support Competition Administrators to deliver compliant, effective competitions. Provide practical, customer-focused assistance while improving systems, processes, and communication to reduce administrative burden across associations and clubs.
The Role
Key Responsibilities:
- Support the implementation of Cricket Victoria’s Competition Management Strategy across all affiliated community competitions.
- Lead the Competitions Unit and ensure a coordinated approach across Premier and Community competition staff.
- Build trusted relationships with Association Executives and competition committees, focused on practical support and continuous improvement.
- Act as the primary day-to-day support for Competition Administrators employed or supported under MOUs and shared-service arrangements.
- Support consistent and effective use of PlayHQ across community competitions, including fixtures, registrations, grading, transfers, and permits.
- Own and manage senior stakeholder relationships, driving alignment, clarity, and delivery.
About You
Essential:
- Demonstrated experience in sport competition administration.
- Strong stakeholder engagement and relationship management skills.
- Experience using PlayHQ or similar competition systems.
- Experience leading operational teams.
- High-level planning, organisation and systems capability.
- Working With Children Check (Employee).
Desirable:
- Experience working with community sport associations.
- Not afraid to challenge, influence and drive change.
- Understanding of Victorian Cricket structures.
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’ll play a key role in supporting and delivering the implementation of Cricket Victoria’s Competition Management Strategy across all affiliated community competitions.
The Benefits
- State of the Art location at our CitiPower Centre, St Kilda
- Great Work life balance through flexible working
- Tickets to a range of sporting events (yes, this includes cricket)
- Free onsite gym access
- Corporate Health Insurance Offers
- Corporate Partner Discounts
- Casual, friendly and inclusive work environment and team culture (our top priority
Applications close 5pm Thursday 12 March 2026.
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