Job Description

🏏 Join Cricket Victoria – We’re Hiring a Participation Strategy Lead - Melbourne Stars.

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 Participation Strategy Lead – Melbourne Stars to join our Premier & Community Cricket team. This role will support and develop entry-level and junior programs, driving initiatives that increase participation, improve accessibility, and encourage long-term engagement while delivering high-quality customer service in an inclusive environment.

💪 The Role

Key Responsibilities:

• Work with Cricket Victoria, Cricket Australia (CA) and State/Territory staff to develop long-term Entry Level Program (Cricket Blast) design and implementation strategy.

• Strategically prioritise and target opportunities for integration of the Entry Level Programs and other participation programs into junior cricket pathways.

• Work with Cricket Victoria Field Force to administer available funding pools relating to delivery of Entry Level Programs (Wooloworths Community Fund & Growing Cricket for Girls Fund).

• Ensure communication and education of Entry Level Program benefits, requirements and delivery via Cricket Victoria staff and communities.

• Implement transition plans between school-based Entry Level Programs and other participation programs and Junior Clubs.

• Collaborate with BBL Clubs to implement BBL aligned promotional strategies and be a vital link between BBL franchises and Entry Level Program opportunities.

🎯 About You

Essential:

• Relevant tertiary qualifications or extensive experience in a Sports, Sales, Project Management or Educational focused role

• Experience in developing high level, multi-departmental strategies

• Strong analytical/problem solving skills

• Strong interpersonal skills and attributes

• Working With Children Check (Employee)

Desirable:

• Experience in delivering sport, health or education programs on a large scale.

• Highly developed written and oral communication skills.
• Understanding of sports industry Working with/understanding of the cricket community.

🏏Why Join Cricket Victoria?

Cricket Victoria is one of Australia’s leading sporting organisation’s 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 cultural and operational alignment across the community cricket operations team.

🏆The Benefits

• Flexible working arrangements to support work-life balance
• Tickets to a range of sporting events (yes, this includes cricket!)
• Free onsite gym access
• Corporate health insurance offers
• Exclusive corporate partner discounts
• Additional week of leave each year
• A casual, friendly and inclusive culture which is our top priority!

Applications close 5pm, Tuesday 7 April 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