Experience

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  Port Adelaide Football Club

  • Australia
  • Spectator Sports
  • 100 - 200 Employee

  • Coach Development Manager

    • Oct 2022 - Present

  • Coach Development Consultant

    • Oct 2016 - Oct 2022

    - Providing coach development to football coaching staff, with a particular focus on teaching, learning, and effective pedagogical practice.- Observing, coding, and generating reports on various aspects of teaching and learning in a football environment, such as: 1:1 coach/player meetings, line meetings, team review/preview meetings, training sessions, and game-day box communication.- Planning and delivering customised professional development for coaching staff, synthesising current evidence from learning science with the unique context of the coaching environment.

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  Self-employed

  • Coach Development Consultant

    • Jul 2016 - Present

    As a coach developer, I work with sport coaches to help them maximise their impact. I also deliver workshops to coaching teams and sporting organisations. Recent clients have included: English Premier League, UK Coaching, Irish Rugby, Rugby Canada, AFL, AFLCA, AFL Victoria, SANFL, Western Australian Institute of Sport.

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  University of Melbourne

  • Honorary Research Fellow

    • Jul 2020 - Present

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  Carlton Football Club

  • Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

  • Coach Development Consultant

    • Mar 2022 - Oct 2022
    • Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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  Mental Health First Aid Australia

  • Curriculum Development Specialist

    • Jan 2021 - Sep 2022

    Responsible for the development of creative and effective learning content using contemporary andragogy and learning principles. This involves the creation and updating of courses, including the use of evidence-based assessment and feedback practices to enhance learning outcomes for course participants.

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  Flinders University

  • Adelaide, Australia

  • Casual Academic Staff

    • Feb 2020 - Jan 2021
    • Adelaide, Australia

    Sessional tutor for undergraduate subjects within the College of Education, Psychology and Social Work at Flinders University.Subjects include: Sport and Physical Education, Introduction to Sport and Physical Activity, and Sociology of Sport and Physical Activity

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  University of Melbourne

  • Australia
  • Higher Education
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Project Manager/Researcher

    • Jun 2016 - Dec 2019

    Worked across two centres in the Melbourne Graduate School of Education: the Science of Learning Research Centre (SLRC), and the Centre for Program Evaluation (CPE).Projects included:- Work on Prof John Hattie's Visible Learning metasynthesis- Translating Science of Learning principles for use in the classroom- Evaluations of school professional development programs

  • Lecturer/Tutor

    • Jan 2018 - Jan 2019

    Lectures delivered include:- Sports Coaching Pedagogy- Coaching Effectiveness: Measurement and Assessment- Evaluating the Impact of Growth Mindset in Sports Coaching- Coach and Athlete WellbeingSubjects tutored include:- Sports Coaching: Theory and Practice- Applying Coaching Science- Sport, Education and the Media

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  Diamond Valley Basketball Association

  • Melbourne, Australia

  • Basketball Coach

    • Oct 2015 - Sep 2018
    • Melbourne, Australia

    Member of the Diamond Valley Eagles Senior Championship coaching staff as:- Development Coach, State Championship Women (2015-16) - Assistant Coach, State Championship Women (2016-17) - Assistant Coach, Youth League Women (2017-18)- Development Coach, SEABL Development Squad (2017-18) - Strength and Conditioning Coach (2015-18)Key responsibilities include:- Development and coaching of individual strength and conditioning programs- Development and implementation of game day warmup/recovery protocol- Design, implementation and data analysis of player workload monitoring tool - Coaching gym and on-court training sessions- Coaching small group and 1-on-1 skill development sessions- Scouting and video analysis of opposition players and team offensive/defensive tactics- Recording/coding of statistics on game day

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  University of Melbourne

  • Melbourne, Australia

  • Research Assistant

    • Apr 2013 - Feb 2015
    • Melbourne, Australia

    Responsible for the coordination of research projects including: an evaluation of a school-based training program for adolescents on how to assist a peer with a mental health problem (teen Mental Health First Aid), and a project to develop guidelines on how a member of the public can assist an LGBTI individual with a mental health problem.Academic journal publications arising from this role:Mason, R.J., Hart, L.M., Rossetto, A., & Jorm, A. (2015). Quality and predictors of adolescents’ first aid intentions and actions towards a peer with a mental health problem. Psychiatry Research, 228, 31-38.http://www.psy-journal.com/article/S0165-1781(15)00180-8/abstractHart, L.M., Mason, R.J., Kelly, C.M., Cvetkovski, S., & Jorm, A.F. (2016). ‘teen Mental Health First Aid’: a description of the program and an initial evaluation. International Journal of Mental Health Systems, 10, 3. https://ijmhs.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13033-016-0034-1Bond, K.S., Jorm, A.F., Kelly, C.M. Kitchener, B.A., Morris, S.L., & Mason, R.J. (2017). Considerations when providing mental health first aid to an LGBTIQ person: a Delphi study. Advances in Mental Health.http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/18387357.2017.1279017