Performance Life Coach Contractor

We are recruiting for a Performance Life Coach Contractor (0.4 FTE) for our HPSNZ Hub - Cambridge.

Reporting to the Head of Performance Life, this role is responsible for ensuring the effective delivery of the Performance Life Programme to supported athletes and contributing to the development of national Performance Life strategies, programme initiatives, resources, and best practice delivery as a part of the Performance Life Team.

The Performance Life programme is designed around four key focus areas: Career & Education, Personal Development, Wellbeing and Transitions.

You are suitable for this role if you have:

• A proven ability to coach, mentor, or supervise individuals in their goals
• Demonstrated ability to develop, implement and evaluate personal development plans for individuals
• Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills to motivate behaviour change to have a positive impact on the individual
• Experience in working as part of an integrated team
• An understanding of the high-performance environment and needs of elite athletes is beneficial
• A tertiary qualification in a relevant area
• A very high work ethic
• Flexibility to work outside of regular business hours when needed

High Performance Sport New Zealand leads the high performance system in New Zealand. HPSNZ works in partnership with national sport organisations, allocates resources to sports organisations and athletes, and delivers world-leading support to impact performance.

Applications Close: 5 June 2026 at 5:00pm

Job Details

Reference #

32239

Posted on

22 May 2026

Closes on

05 Jun 2026 17:00

Location (s)

Cambridge

Expertise

Performance Life

Job level (s)

Practitioner

Work type (s)

Contractor

Organisation

High Performance Sport New Zealand