Scholarships for Women
The Australian Sports Commission announced the introduction of Scholarships as part of the Sport Leadership Grants for Women in the 2009/10 round.
These scholarships are aimed at women who are already established at a reasonable level in sport to assist them in attaining prominent leadership roles within sporting organisations. The scholarships follow a Pathway Plan over a three year period, developing and mentoring the recipients along the way.
Scholarships are available in the following areas:
- Coaching
- Officiating
- Governance
- Management / Administration
- Communications / Media / Marketing
The successful applicants are required to enter an agreement and to provide a Pathway Plan detailing selected courses, professional development opportunities and objectives. It is anticipated that these women will, as they progress along their pathway, develop leadership and management skills and will affect change therefore increasing the involvement of women across all areas of the sport.
The Australian Sports Commission will further enhance the scholarship program through provision of:
- Mentorships - The ASC will match successful applicants with an appropriate mentor. Successful applicants and the mentors will contribute to the matching or selection of the partnering. It is anticipated that the scholarship recipients will, as they progress along their Pathway will at some point become a Mentor themselves.
- Professional learning opportunities - ASC will arrange practical learning opportunities through placements in AIS / ASC programs. The ASC and AIS are best placed to provide the most valuable of learning... practical, hands on experience.
Application form
Applications for the Sport Leadership Grants and Scholarships for Women must be submitted online.
Applicants will have the facility to print a copy of their application upon completion of all required fields and screens. There is no facility to save the application part way through the application process.
To assist you with preparing your application, please find copies of the required fields / screens as an example of the questions asked in the online application. While current at the time, these are examples only and some changes may have occurred to the application. The examples can be found at the bottom of this page.
* Please note that only online applications will be accepted, do not send in hard copy application forms.
Eligibility
To be eligible to apply for a Sport Leadership Pathway Scholarship, individuals must be:
- female
- involved in a paid or volunteer capacity at a local, state or national level in the sport industry
- identified or have aspirations to move into prominent leadership roles, state or national level in the sport industry
- available to attend an ASC Sport Leadership Workshop
- an Australian citizen or have been granted permanent residence status
- aged 18 years or more
- supported by a sporting organisation affiliated with a sport that is recognised by the ASC - please refer to www.ausport.gov.au/about/australian_sport_directory for list of ASC recognised sports
- Individuals or organisations from the fitness industry
- Australian, State and Local government agencies
- Schools
- Projects targeting Non Australian Citizens or persons not granted permanent residence status
- Individuals or organisations that have not yet reported or acquitted a previous grant from the Australian Sports Commission
- Scholarship Application Screens (
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