Local Community Volunteer Management Team - Midnight Basketball Mt Druitt

Midnight Basketball is a community-driven national social inclusion program supporting local teenagers by embodying our philosophy of combining life skills with high energy and fun. By identifying and embracing positive opportunities, while filling a gap on Friday or Saturday nights, it includes a nutritious dinner, mentoring sessions, and a minimum of three games of competition basketball. A bus takes all players home to their front door by Midnight.

The Midnight Basketball Mt Druitt Volunteer Management Team is currently seeking volunteer Management Team members to help set up and run Midnight Basketball Tournaments, with the aim of running in Term 2, 2026.

There are Management Team roles to suit all types of experience, and we are looking for people with different skills from a range of sectors in the community – whether your experience is in business, retail store, sport, education, training, media, youth services through to a community volunteering organisation, you can make a valuable contribution.

Management Team roles include:

• Finance manager: Responsible for the timely and accurate preparation of both forecast and actual Tournament budget in compliance with Australian taxation standards, and managing the budget pre, during and post Tournament.
• Fundraising and support manager: Responsible for engaging with diverse sectors of the community to identify and secure in-kind support as well as funds required to run each Tournament.
• Logistics manager: Responsible for organising the supply and quality of all logistical components of the Tournament, as well as the recruitment and retention of Tournament night roles requiring professional qualifications and/or specific prior experience. Works with the management team to ensure logistical requirements supplied are from within the local community, and at a high quality standard, sourced either in-kind or at the best possible rate available. Co-ordinate supply and rostering of stadium arrangements, security, catering, referees, buses, administrative and other items.
• Marketing manager: Responsible for overseeing all activities related to raising awareness of Midnight Basketball in the local community and ensuring the brand is strictly aligned to the strategic objectives of the Tournament Model to maximise benefit for the teenage participants.
• Player manager: Midnight Basketball is a social inclusion activity that targets all teenagers in communities which will involve a broad marketing campaign combined with extra activities to engage disadvantaged and marginalised teenagers who will be directly targeted to ensure they are identified and aware of the Tournament and feel very welcome to attend. Responsible for developing and implementing the Player Recruitment Plan for the Tournament, including engaging with the Youth and Family Services sector, high schools, and other organisations.
• Skills sessions manager: Responsible for the co-ordination and development of the Skills Sessions for the Tournament to meet local objectives and the requirements of the Midnight Basketball Tournament Model including the life skills teenagers need to increase job readiness and the ability to transition to independent living and a happy, well lived life.
• Volunteer manager: Responsible for engaging with the local community to recruit, retain and roster volunteers to support the Tournament through the development and implementation of a volunteer recruitment plan.

You don’t need to have played basketball; just a desire to contribute to your community and help local teenagers.