Performance Development Coach (Mountain Biking)
Welsh Cycling
Closing date: 23rd September 2009

5x60 Sport and Physical Activity Officer
Newport
Closing date: 18th September 2009

High Performance Coach
Welsh Netball
Closing date: 14th September 2009

For detailed information about any of the jobs listed above, please click on the individual job title.

To visit the recruitment page on our web site, please Click here.

If you have any vacancies you would like to advertise, please contact Paul Dancey or telephone 0845 846 0020

The following courses are available free of charge to WSA members. Places are however limited and must be booked through the WSA.

South Wales
Negotiating for Business Success
8th October 2009 (1 day course)
Newport & Gwent Enterprise
Newport

Managing Change:People & Process
13th October 2009 (1 day course)
Newport & Gwent Enterprise
Newport

Influencing the Assembly
13th October 2009 (1 day course)
WCVA
Cardiff

Presentation Skills
15th October 2009 (1 day course)
Newport & Gwent Enterprise
Newport

Developing High Performance Teams
19th October 2009 (1 day course)
Newport & Gwent Enterprise
Newport

North Wales
Microsoft Access -Introduction
9th October 2009 (1 day course)
Business Point
Coleg Llandrillo

Microsoft Word -Introduction
9th October 2009 (1 day course)
Business Point
Coleg Llandrillo

Microsoft Excel -Introduction
12th October 2009 (1 day course)
Business Point
Coleg Llandrillo

Appraisals and Performance Management
12th October 2009 (1 day course)
Business Point
Coleg Llandrillo

Business and Strategy Planning
13th October 2009 (1 day course)
WCVA
Rhyl

Introduction to Employment Law
16th October 2009 (half day course)
Business Point
Coleg Llandrillo

If you require further information, or would like to book a place on any of these courses, please contact Wendy Yardley or telephone 0845 846 0020.

To book a place on any of the following courses, please contact the course provider. A course fee will be payable.

Managing Risk: the accounting and VAT perspective
12th October 2009
Baltic House, Cardiff

This course is provided by WCVA, in partnership with Watts Gregory LLP accountants.
For further information, please click here

How to Tender
5th & 6th October 2009
Cardiff
24th & 25th November 2009
Rhyl

This course is provided by Sustainable Funding Cymru.
For further information, please click here

Welcome to the September issue of the WSA e-newsletter. This month the focus is on recent achievements and developments within Welsh sport.

Whilst Greta is on maternity leave, please send any articles for our web site or future editions of this newsletter to: paul.dancey@welshsports.org.uk

The Vale of Glamorgan Council are holding an LAPA workshop from 2pm until 4.30pm on the 24th September to bring together potential partners who may be able to assist the Council to meet a number of key priority areas within a Vale wide action plan for Sports and physical activity... more

Britain came to Wales this month and went home with a great sporting experience, although the home nation did not do too badly at the UK School Games which were staged over the first weekend of September across Swansea, Cardiff and Newport... more

Llanelli athlete Dai Greene walked away from the national track in the shadow of the City of Manchester Stadium two years ago with his aspirations of a World Championships adventure in Osaka, Japan, in ruins. He had just won the European Under-23 Championships 400 metres hurdles gold medal in Hungary... more

The Celtic Crusaders may be flying the Welsh flag in top-class professional rugby league but the amateur scene is as strong as ever as Blackwood Bulldogs, Bridgend Blue Bulls and the age group teams proved in their respective Grand Finals last month... more

It took a year-and-a-half of planning but Welsh Hockey is already reaping the benefits of hosting the European Nations Trophy in Wrexham last month. Wales' men came away from the tournament with a creditable bronze medal after they beat the Czech Republic to the podium... more

In less than 400 days, Wales will be on show to the sporting world again when the cream of its' athletes walk proudly into the Jawaharlal Nehru Sports Complex for the 2010 Commonwealth Games Opening Ceremony... more

Welsh Netball chief Mike Fatkin believes the sport is due for 'very exciting times' as the new Co-operative Super-league fixtures are announced. The Celtic Dragons represent Wales in the competition and, after 'difficult times', according to Fatkin, there is a lot of optimism about the future... more

When the call went out for high and mighty athletes to take up the challenges of Olympic sport, ahead of the 2012 London Games, Cardiff's Gareth Priddle decided to answer... more

So often in sport, competitors will go into an event talking up their opposition, the threat they face and how they have to raise their game to beat that opposition. Track cyclists are a different breed, though. For them, second best may as well be 100th best... more

It is as physically hard as a good workout in the gym yet as tactical and mentally challenging as a game of chess. Now, a leading Welsh coach is hoping children and adults will see the point of fencing as he spreads the word around the Principality. Wales, with fencers like men's ace David Mansour and Newport rising star Abi Difford, is taking great strides in the sport... more

Three Welsh teenagers featured in their very own Boys' - and Girls' - Own story last month rode in one of the biggest equestrian competitions in the country and beat 66 other school teams to win the title outright... more

People will normally think of competitive archery as the type seen in the Olympic Games where people stand on a fixed mark in a field and aim at stationary targets. Field archery is more of the traditional type of discipline, the sort which is centuries old and rooted in the conquests of long ago... more

Squash Wales paid its' annual pilgrimage to the west of the Principality last month and it turned out to be an eventful journey. Hoping for better weather than when they set out, organizers from the south and east arrived in Narberth at 8.30am to discover that the Bloomfield Centre, where the day's play was due to take place, was not going to be open for another half-hour... more

Six foot three inch Vicky Thornley has high hopes of rowing for gold at the London 2012 Olympics after winning the world Under-23 title just 18 months after taking up the sport. The 22-year-old fitness instructor lives down the road from Welsh Beijing hero Tom James near Wrexham, but has still to meet him... more

Wales face England again at the European Table Tennis Championships in Stuttgart, Germany this month. England beat Wales 3-1 at the Commonwealth Championships in Glasgow last May and the two countries lock horns again in Stuttgart between September 13-19... more

Saving lives in the waters around Wales is a vital service carried out by brave people across the nation. However, they have to know what to do and how to do it and what better way for youngsters to learn such a vital job than in a sporting environment. Which is where the members of Aberavon Surf Life Saving Club come in... more