The new appointee will play a key role in building and delivering community engagement activities to celebrate athletes before and through next year’s Commonwealth Games CGA has began a programme of alumni, community and education activities and events celebrating Australia’s Commonwealth Games history and searching forward to Birmingham 2022.
It says the one that fills the new post “will take the lead on projects that build our reference to alumni and future Commonwealth Games team members, along side our Games-time community engagement activities during the Birmingham Games”.
The role may be a contract position through to the top of 2022, with a view to continuing post-2022 A degree in marketing, communications, sport business management or another relevant discipline is desired, along side a robust interest within the Commonwealth Games, the sports contested and CGA’s athletes.
Australia hosted the last Commonwealth Games, in Gold Coast in 2018, and topped the medals table by winning 80 eventsSince Auckland 1990, the CGA delegation has finished top of the medals table in the least bar one edition of the Commonwealth Games.
GCA is following its First Among Equals Strategic Plan until 2026, and connecting with communities is one among the five stated aims of the document.