Reporting to the Board of Directors, the Chief Executive Officer provides strategic, commercial, operational, and cultural leadership for Baseball New Zealand. The role exists to unify a passionate, yet fragmented community, drive unity and trust, strengthen organisational capability, grow participation, secure sustainable funding, and lead the sport into its next era of stability and growth.

As the public face of the organisation, the CEO will embody Baseball NZ’s values of integrity, transparency, commitment, equality, compassion and resilience, and champion a strong “one baseball” culture to significantly enhance the experience of members, partners and stakeholders across the sport. The CEO will also strengthen relationships with Sport New Zealand, international and Olympic bodies, iwi, government, schools, media and commercial partners, and actively advocate for the sport to raise its profile and visibility.

The role is responsible for delivering the organisation’s strategic plan, balancing grassroots development with high-performance aspirations, and continually reviewing the structure of the sport and its partnerships, identifying opportunities for cross-code collaboration, shared services and smarter ways of working. The CEO will lead and develop a small (7) high-performing team, and create clear systems, behaviours and accountability in a resource-constrained environment. Strong financial and commercial stewardship is essential, including disciplined budgeting and forecasting, strengthening financial controls, diversifying revenue streams and developing new commercial partnerships.

A key focus of the role is growing participation and strengthening pathways across all levels of the game. This includes supporting innovative programmes, school and community partnerships, improved competition structures and enhanced game-day delivery, while building clear national pathways that connect community participation to elite performance.