Organisational Structure

The Safety in Sport Division provides a nationally coordinated response to sport integrity issues in Australia, with a focus on anti-doping and discrimination, child abuse and mistreatment across all levels of Australian sport.  

The division is led by the Deputy CEO – Safety in Sport, with responsibility for driving operational coordination and consultation for anti-doping and integrity matters, sports partnerships, education and capability development.

The role works across the agency and with external partners to deliver agency priorities, including directly with the General Manager - Operations and the Head of Sport Engagement to deliver:

• Information Coordination, ensuring agency-wide consultation, collaboration and engagement with partners in operational triage, prioritisation, referral and reporting.
• Anti-doping capability as the National Anti-Doping Organisation responsible for implementing anti-doping arrangements in accordance with the World Anti-Doping Code. The capability includes Intelligence, Investigations, Testing and Science & Medicine.
• The National Integrity Framework and critical functions in partnership with sport. The capability includes continued partnerships with national sporting organisations and national sporting organisations for people with a disability and their integrity units and staff to embed cultural reform. It also includes a new Safe Sport hotline for people to talk to us about the integrity issues they have experiences in sport.
• Safeguarding in Sport Continuous Improvement Program, designed for national sporting organisations, national sporting organisations for people with a disability, state/territory sporting organisations and community affiliated bodies (associations/leagues and clubs) to provide education, training and ongoing support to ensure they are equipped to provide safe and inclusive environments for all members, including children.
• Education across all aspects of Sport Integrity Australia frameworks, including design and delivery of education programs and resources for sport, development of club and state level programs (i.e. face-to-face presentations, video, online and printed education material), including Play by the Rules.
• Capability Development to ensure foundations are in place for agency capabilities and to adapt and evolve to stay ahead of the ever-increasing volume and complexity threats facing sport integrity in Australia.

The Deputy CEO – Safety in Sport is a member of the Sport Integrity Australia Senior Executive, working closely with the Culture and Safety Advisor to ensure the agency’s operational and engagement efforts are safe, fair and inclusive.

The agency also values and draws upon productive domestic and global partnerships across sport, government, law enforcement, intelligence, child protection and health agencies, including the Australian Sports Drug Medical Advisory Committee, National Measurement Institute, the Australian Sports Commission, Australian Institute of Sport (and National Institute Network), Australian Federal Police, State/Territory Police jurisdictions, Australian Border Force, Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission and its specialist Sports Betting Integrity Unit, Home Affairs, Interpol, Australian Human Rights Commission, Therapeutic Goods Administration, National Office for Child Safety and Office of the eSafety Commissioner.

The Corporate Division is led by the Deputy CEO – Corporate and is responsible for the internal operations of the Agency consisting of the following teams.

The Governance and Risk team coordinates Ministerial, risk, assurance and corporate reporting activities. This team engages the Audit and Risk Committee and the internal audit service provider, developing the Portfolio Budget Statements, annual stakeholder survey, Corporate Plan, Annual Performance Statement and Annual Report. They manage the internal policies and procedures advancing the positive risk culture in the agency.

The Finance team undertakes all finance functions of the agency. Managing departmental, administered and users pay revenue, the team prepares the internal and external budgets and provides regular advice to the Executive on financial management issues.

The People and Culture team manages the payroll, recruitment and induction of new staff as well as educating staff on policy and entitlements under the enterprise agreement. The team provides advice on performance management.

The ICT, Property and Security team is responsible for the design and operation of the ICT environment at Sport Integrity Australia, its security and the building. Key activities include finalising the migration of legacy systems and services to the cloud, finalising and transitioning the building fit out projects and transition to using our new AI, analytics, collaboration and process automation tools to their fullest.

The Legal team provides legal advice to all sections of the agency on a range of issues relevant to the operations and processes of Sport Integrity Australia. Our lawyers are responsible for assessing briefs of evidence relating to anti-doping rule violations and making recommendations to the Executive. Our lawyers work with legal representatives of athletes and regularly engage with legal teams of National Sports Organisations, International Federations, other National Anti-Doping Organisations and the World Anti-Doping Agency.