Are you inspired to contribute to the success of New Zealand in high performance sporting endeavours on the world stage? Have you proven experience in elevating performances with national sporting bodies? Are you highly knowledgeable about optimising elite athletic performances? Are you a visionary leader with a strategic approach who can impact high performance outcomes at a system level?

If this sounds like you, High Performance Sport New Zealand (HPSNZ) would like to learn more about you. High Performance Sport New Zealand's (HPSNZ) vision is to Inspire Performance Every Day. We aim to enable and empower world class sporting performances that inspire New Zealanders, within environments that value wellbeing.

The Performance Partnerships team are looking for a Performance Team Leader (PTL) to join the organisation. The PTL role is responsible for managing HPSNZ's relationships with NSOs and providing them with strategic support and investment to achieve the agreed performance outcomes.

At a high level, apart from your track record of creating success in the high performance arena, to be considered for this role you will need to demonstrate other key competencies:

• Recent experience from within a NSO high performance environment.
• Strong capabilities across strategic thinking and innovative problem solving in complex environments.
• A solid record of building, influencing, and managing constructive relationships across all stakeholders within a high performance environment.
• Proven contributions towards creating a positive high-performance culture, with wellbeing a main consideration in your approach.
• Experience in working with multi-disciplinary teams to enhance all facets of sporting performance.

In addition, we are looking for someone who conducts themselves professionally and can develop relationships based on trust; who has exceptional communication skills with an engaging style; who can influence and impact change whilst leading themselves with decisiveness, confidence, and emotional stability.

For further detail into the requirements and expectations of the role, please refer to the Job Description. This role is Auckland based.

High Performance Sport New Zealand leads the high performance system in New Zealand. HPSNZ works in partnership with national sport organisations, allocates resources to sports organisations and athletes, and delivers world-leading support to impact positively on both performance and wellbeing.

This is a unique opportunity to be part of a team as we partner with sports to prepare for pinnacle events over multiple horizons.

Applications Close: 5pm, Monday 7 July 2025.

Job Details

Reference #28976

Posted on18 Jun 2025

Closes on07 Jul 2025 17:00

Location (s)Auckland

Expertise

Job level (s)Consultant

Work type (s)Permanent full-time

OrganisationHigh Performance Sport New Zealand

More details (document)HPSNZ Peformance Team Leader (PTL) JD 2025.pdf

Article added: Wednesday 02 July 2025