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SOUTHERN ZONE
POSITION DESCRIPTION
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Rugby League Development Officer
Southern Zone General Manager and Canterbury Rugby
League Chief Executive
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Christchurch
May 2015
POSITION PURPOSE:
The Rugby League Development Officer is overall responsible for the creation of and
implementation of Canterbury Rugby League’s coaching and development plan within the
Canterbury District.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
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CLUBS
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Provide training courses for managers and trainers at appropriate levels.
Develop initiatives to enhance and support coaching recruitment and retention
programmes for the benefit of clubs.
Provide ongoing support to coaches of local clubs and CRL representative teams.
Ensure all coaches delivering rugby league have the appropriate Rugby League
coaching accreditation.
- Organise and run mini/mod coaching accreditation courses.
- Organise and run Beginner, Developing and Advanced Youth and Senior Coach
Accreditation courses.
- Promote further learning opportunities for coaches.
- Maintain a coaches database
SCHOOLS
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Deliver a fundamental skills programme into targeted primary and intermediate
schools.
Deliver coach, referee and player up skilling to targeted secondary schools.
Implement the Leadership through League Programme into targeted secondary
schools and tertiary institutions.
Liaise with Schools within the district to develop and implement regular competitions
at primary, intermediate and secondary schools.
- Assist at primary and intermediate schools tournaments in rugby league and Kiwi
League Tag.
- Assist in the implementation of secondary schools competitions and tournaments
including secondary schoolgirl’s competitions.
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JUNIOR RUGBY LEAGUE
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Have a presence at Canterbury Agricultural Park weekly.
Run programmes for coaches/referees.
Provide feedback and support to coaches individually on request and where time
allows.
Be an active member of the Junior Advisory Group.
OTHER
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Create the annual coaching and development calendar for the district
Assist NZRL National Coaching and Development Manager and Southern Zone GM
with any National or South Island initiatives that take place within the Canterbury
district.
Be involved in all Canterbury Rugby League game promotions i.e. CCC events, carnival
days, match days.
Liaise with NZRL to ensure that literature/resources are available to clubs to assist in
any initiative taking place to grow and develop the game within the district.
Keep up to date with current coaching trends.
Any other task as required.
KEY RELATIONSHIPS:
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Develop and maintain positive relationships with clubs and club personnel.
Develop and maintain positive relationships with district personnel.
Develop and maintain positive relationships with Southern Zone and NZRL
personnel.
Develop and maintain positive relationships with Sport Canterbury/West Coast
personnel.
Continuously develop personnel within the district in order to ensure pathways for
coaches, managers, trainers, referees and administrators.
Work with NZRL personnel on any initiatives that grow the game of rugby league.
Develop and maintain relationships with key external providers to various
programmes.
Develop and maintain relationships with external partners (Schools, Sport NZ,
Regional Sports Trusts, etc).
Develop and maintain relationships with the wider Canterbury community.
PLANNING AND REPORTING:
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Weekly plans and work in progress reports to CRL CEO/Operations Manager.
Monthly meetings with CRL CEO and SZ General Manager.
Written monthly reports against Key Performance Indicators established.
Participation in various communications to ensure complete transparency.
OBJECTIVES - KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS
Each year Canterbury Rugby League will set various objectives and key performance
indicators (KPI’s) in line with its Strategic Plan. In order to ensure continued focus on these
objectives and KPI’s the following will be carried out:
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Annual Goal setting in line with Strategic Plan leading to creation of KPI’s.
Monthly reporting.
BI – Annual performance reviews with respect to on-going progress against
objectives and KPI’s
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