Scottish Rugby is creating two new roles to head up women’s rugby in this country.
On Thursday, the governing body announced its annual contracting model for the 2025/26 season for the women’s game, and, in a press briefing held around that news, details on the posts were made public.
Managing director of women’s rugby and head of women’s performance pathways roles are being created as the road to the Women’s Rugby World Cup 2029 in Australia begins.
CEO Alex Williamson: “We will be adding further depth and quality to the resource that sits around the women we have in our environment.
“We are not only adding a head of women’s performance pathways, which is a brand new role, we’ve not had that before, but the first ever managing director of women’s rugby will sit in the Scottish Rugby leadership team and will be the one driving strategy, commercialisation and our impact on the international game.
“These are exciting times on and off the pitch and the performances of Scotland at the Women’s Rugby World Cup have undoubtedly given us a strong platform to move into the next phase of our high performance programme.
“We’ve had a number of good candidates, both internal and external, so we’ll be making announcements in the next week or so.”
Asked how the new posts would impact Gemma Fay’s current position as head of women’s and girls’ strategy, Williamson added: “There will be a reorganisation and the MD role and the new pathways role will be the lead roles within the women’s game. You’ll get more detail on that when we make the announcements as we fill them.”
Scottish Rugby CEO Alex Williamson is pictured
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