The Pathways High Performance Manager is tasked with embedding the whole club’s high-performance philosophies and systems that assists with repeatable on field success, injury prevention and long-term athletic development within all levels of our pathway programs. The program has a strong focus on consistent successful graduation of players developing internally through all aspects of high performance before entering our NRL program.

The Pathways High Performance Manager provides strong leadership and direction, focused within our performance department across all our pathway programs and plays an important role in the development and achievement of the Club’s vision, values and performance objectives.

High-Performance Program Development:

• Work in partnership with club’s Head of Elite Pathways & Player Development to devise and implement a holistic football program across the whole EPPD program.
• Strategic management (including all related staff) of the strength, conditioning, nutrition, and recovery programs to maximise performance of all teams associated to the whole EPPD program.
• Implement and manage load monitoring, fitness testing and training protocols (in clear alignment with NRL performance program).
• Design and coordination of the whole EPPD program weekly training structure and Football Department training calendar to maximise performances of all associated teams.
• Direct management of all staff and resources allocated to the high-performance department for all programs and projects associated to the whole EPPD program and reporting on their progress and delivery against agreed performance targets.
• Design, implement, and continually refine the club's pathways high-performance program in alignment with the club's overall strategic objectives.
• Develop comprehensive training and development plans tailored to the specific needs and developmental stages of athletes within the pathways program.