About VenuesWest
VenuesWest enriches the lives of Western Australians by offering opportunities for those pursuing elite sport, a range of options for individuals or families choosing to live healthy, active lifestyles and a variety of entertainment experiences for everyone. Our vision is to be Australia’s leading provider of sport and entertainment venues and precincts.
About the Role
VenuesWest is seeking an exceptional and forward-focused operational leader to join our Executive Leadership Team and help shape the performance of Western Australia’s premier sport and entertainment venues.
The Executive Director Operations leads the successful operation of VenuesWest’s self-managed venues, ensuring consistently high-quality customer experiences and the delivery of safe, compliant, and event-ready facilities. The role is accountable for embedding best-practice operational standards, strengthening safety, security, and risk management frameworks, and fostering a culture where safety is paramount.
This position plays a critical role in ensuring venues operate with operational excellence, resilience, and efficiency. A strong focus of the role is driving innovation and continuous improvement — leveraging new technologies, modern operating practices, and smarter systems to enhance venue performance, safety outcomes, and service delivery.
Beyond core venue operations, the Executive Director Operations provides strategic leadership across governance, compliance, and operational risk, ensuring VenuesWest’s venues meet evolving regulatory, stakeholder, and community expectations.
The role also actively supports VenuesWest’s co-managed venues, providing expert operational and safety advice to enable safe, efficient, and high-performing facilities across the broader portfolio.
As a member of the VenuesWest Executive Team, this position contributes to whole-of-organisation leadership, including strategy, culture, policy, and organisational performance.
This is a full-time, fixed-term appointment for five (5) years, with the possibility of extension. The primary office location is the Perth High Performance Centre in Mount Claremont, with responsibilities spanning VenuesWest’s broader venue portfolio.
The nature of this role requires flexibility, including regular attendance at events and functions outside standard office hours. Flexible working arrangements, including work from home, will be discussed with shortlisted candidates.
Working at VenuesWest offers a compelling range of benefits and opportunities. Please refer to the attached Employee Value Proposition for further information.
About the Person
The successful candidate will have high-level experience, skills and knowledge in leading the successful operations of large multi-disciplinary sport, recreation and entertainment facilities and events. This includes demonstrated expertise in delivering exceptional customer experiences, ensuring safe, secure and compliant venues, embedding strong governance and risk management practices, and leading operational teams in complex, dynamic environments.
For any further job-related information please contact Denise Wetherall (Beilby Consulting) on 9323 8888.
For information on VenuesWest and its venues please visit our website www.venueswest.wa.gov.au and follow us on LinkedIn.
Application Instructions
To apply for this position, you must provide:
- A copy of your current resume and
- A cover letter with detailed examples to High level skills, knowledge and experience in the successful management of large multi-disciplinary, sport, recreation and entertainment facilities and events; including:
- experience in delivering high quality customer experiences and safe and compliant venues;
- the ability to optimise venue usage;
- significant experience engaging with stakeholders, hirers and operational partners.
- Experience in managing and negotiating commercial and complex contracts.
A full copy of the Job Description attached as a PDF, which includes a complete list of the capabilities required to fulfil this role.
Please submit your application by clicking on the ‘Apply for Job’ button below.
For application assistance please contact People and Culture on (08) 9441 8362.
Please note that candidates will be contacted by email with timeframes related to the process once the advertisement is closed. In addition, an executive search may also be undertaken as part of this recruitment process.
Our Commitment to an Inclusive Workplace
VenuesWest recognise the benefits of a diverse workforce and is committed to providing an inclusive workplace, where all employees feel welcome, accepted and safe to be their true self, and who are celebrated for their contribution and abilities.
We value the unique perspectives and skills that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, people with disability, culturally and linguistically diverse people, people of diverse genders and sexualities, and women in management bring to the workplace and community and want to support equality for these groups of peoples. We aim to achieve this through increasing workforce representation. People from these backgrounds are strongly encouraged to apply and identify themselves through the application questions. Sections of the Equal Opportunity Act 1984 (WA) for measures to achieve equality will apply to this process.
If you have any accessibility requirements, including adjustments to the recruitment process, workplace adjustments, or documentation in alternative formats, please contact our People & Culture team on (08) 9441 8362 or email peopleandculture@venueswest.wa.gov.au.
Employment Screening
To be eligible for employment with VenuesWest you must have the following at the time of commencement:
- Right to Work in Australia for the duration of the employment contract
- National Police Clearance (Note: having a conviction will not necessarily preclude you from employment. For more information on how convictions are considered, please see the attached information sheet)
Please note that the appointee will bear the costs associated with the abovementioned eligibility requirements.
Future Appointments
Applicants who are found suitable, but not recommended for the vacancy, may be considered for similar vacancies pursuant to the Commission’s Instructions No’s. 2 and 39.
