Organisational Structure

The Safety in Sport Division provides a nationally-coordinated response to sport integrity issues in Australia. It was established to address the increasing range of threats facing Australian sport across all levels, including discrimination based on race, ethnicity, gender, sexual and gender identity, as well as abuse and mistreatment.

The division was announced by the Minister for Sport, the Hon Anika Wells MP, in September 2022.

The division is led by the Deputy CEO – Safety in Sport and brings together the agency's operational functions to provide a coordinated response to anti-doping, integrity matters, sport partnerships, education and capability development. Our dedicated team of experts work to drive initiatives to deter, detect and respond to integrity threats to sports to ensure the synergies between anti-doping and integrity threats are targeted.

The division includes functions across:

• information coordination and intelligence; 
• science and medicine;
• anti-doping testing and investigations;
• education
• implementation of the National Integrity Framework, the National Integrity Manager Program, and the Safeguarding in Sport Continuous Improvement Program (SISCIP);
• unique expertise through the Capability Development Hub; and
• productive domestic and global partnerships across sport, government, law enforcement, intelligence, child protection and health agencies.  

The division works alongside the agency’s Cultural and Safety Advisor to ensure frameworks, policies and processes are culturally safe, inclusive and athlete-focused.

Working to prevent integrity threats to sport by strengthening the integrity environment, the division remains ready to respond and address issues as and when required.

The division values and draws upon productive domestic and global partnerships across sport, government, law enforcement, intelligence, child protection and health agencies highlighting that collaboration is key in addressing current and future threats facing sport.

As a regulator and national coordinator, the division has built strong and trusted relationships with sporting organisations and athletes, to educate and empower them to promote positive behaviours, ultimately aimed at keeping sport safe, clean and fair.

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.

The Culture & Safety Team, led by the Cultural and Safety Advisor, is committed to driving proactive and sustainable change through frameworks, policies and processes that are culturally safe, inclusive and athlete-focused. 

The team will ensure the sector reflects best practices and have trauma informed approaches for cultural safety, intersectionality, unconscious and conscious bias, racial literacy, disability and LGBTQ+ inclusion and equity, while in partnership supporting diversity, equity and Inclusion (DEI) across the agency and broader sporting ecosystem.