A vacancy has arisen for a full-time Regional Basketball Development Coordinator (East & Central), earning between £17,000 and £20,000 per year. 

This is your opportunity to join the basketballscotland team and make a real difference to the growth of basketball in Scotland. 

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basketballscotland are seeking a dynamic and hard working professional to champion the development of basketball across the East & Central regions.

The key functions of this position are to develop a sustainable basketball infrastructure by establishing local school and club competition, coordinating coaching and officiating education programmes and supporting club development.

The role will also provide a link between regional competitions and the Twilight Basketball initiatives taking place throughout the region.

The successful candidate will demonstrate:

-  A knowledge of sport development principles

-  Exceptional planning, organisational, administration and communication skills

-  The ability to engage, motivate and enthuse volunteers and fellow professionals

-  A focus on delivering against identified outcomes

-  High levels of self-motivation

-  The ability to effectively transport themselves throughout their region

This position provides an exciting opportunity for an individual with enthusiasm, commitment and the required skills to make a significant contribution to basketball in Scotland.

For further details and to apply for this post, please download the Job Description and Application Form below:

Job Description

Application Form

The closing date for applications is 12pm on Monday 13^th September

If you require any additional information on the post, please contact Andy McSweeney on operations@basketball-scotland.com

basketballscotland will endeavour through our policies, procedures, actions and decision-making to ensure that no employee, volunteer or member receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of race, gender, disability, sexual orientation, religious or political belief, age or social background.  All members of society are actively encouraged to apply.

The East of Scotland Coaching Conference which features basketball is coming in November. Coaching Counts has been a permanent fixture in the coaching calendar for almost 10 years and this year’s conference is looking to be better than ever. The Conference will be on Sunday 21st November 2010 at Dalkeith Sports Campus… in Midlothian. Further details will follow in the coming weeks.

Coaching Edinburgh, ClubSportEdinburgh, Edinburgh Leisure, Activcity and City of Edinburgh Council are delighted to invite nominations from all Edinburgh Sports Clubs and organisations for the Edinburgh Sports Awards 2010 that recognise excellence, achievement and development by Edinburgh sports people and organisations over the last year or so.

There are three awards that will focus on individuals and clubs who engage with local communities to develop sport and encourage physical activity within the following categories:

Edinburgh Club of Year: 

First Prize £500, Short listed clubs: £250 each

Edinburgh Coach of the Year:

First Prize: £350 Short listed coaches: £150 each

Edinburgh Volunteer of the Year:

First Prize: £350, Short listed volunteers: £150 each

The full criteria and guidelines for nomination are available from grahammoodie@edinburghleisure.co.uk . Nominations should be submitted no later than 17th September 2010.

A Selection Panel will then choose three nominations from each category who will be invited to the Commonwealth Games Civic Reception on Thursday 28th October where the final winners will be announced.

This is the first year of the awards and we are keen to get nominations from the basketball community. If you know of someone or a club which is doing some great work please nominate them now!

Scots Marie Buchan (formerly Falkirk Fury) and Becca Allison (formerly Edinburgh Kool Kats), who are also teammates at Old Dominion University in Virginia, played a huge part in the Euro B title triumph of Welsh coach Damian Jennings’s Great Britain women’s under-20 side in Kavadarci, Macedonia.

Having clinched promotion to Euro A by reaching the final with a superb 59-40 win over Portugal, they went on to capture the Euro B title for the first time, beating the undoubted favourites Slovakia 47-46 in a nervy finish after being 25-14 up at half-time.

Buchan top-scored against the Slovaks with 13 points, and finished the tournament averaging over 10 points a game to be GB’s top scorer as well as averaging 7.7 rebounds per game and 1.6 assists.

It was a mature performance which suggests the Denny High FP could soon be pushing for a place in a GB senior squad currently not overloaded with big players.

Allison, like GB senior team member Rose Anderson a Portobello High School FP, led the rebounds with nine in a long, crucial stint in the final.

A feature of the tournament was the increasing minutes and growing confidence in their Great Britain team role of the two Scots, with Allison still eligible for this age group next year as is another Kool Kat Kathryn Taylor, who made it all the way to the last 14 only to be cut before the tournament.

Allison, who red-shirted last season for Old Dominion, had 26 minutes on court in the 59-40 semi-final win over Portugal, scoring eight points, taking five rebounds, giving four assists and having three steals in arguably her finest ever game.