Netball Scotland is delighted to announce its partnership with KitQueen, a leading online retailer of women’s team wear. KitQueen will be the Official Partner of the Scottish Thistles as they embark on the Netball World Cup 2023, taking place in Cape Town, South Africa from 28th July to the 6th of August.

Netball Scotland and KitQueen have a shared vision and ethos of empowering women and girls in sport and understand the importance of inclusive, functional teamwear when it comes to keeping women and girls engaged in sports and physical activity, through all stages of life.

Lucy Faulkner, Chair of Netball Scotland, commented, “We’re delighted that KitQueen has become a Netball Scotland partner. We love the way they champion diversity, inclusion, and body confidence in HER and this perfectly aligns with our approach to supporting women and girls to love their bodies, be physically active, and enjoy netball at all levels. We welcome KitQueen to the Netball Scotland family and look forward to working with them.”

The partnership will see the KitQueen logo take pride of place on the Thistles World Cup dress. As the official sponsor, KitQueen has worked together with Nike to design the dress by combining the elite functionality and performance of the Nike dress, with the heritage and pride of the Scottish Thistle and luck and positive energy of Scottish marble.

Scottish Thistles players were presented with their personalised ‘Kitmas’ boxes containing their official NWC dresses, and a special gift of Scottish Marble by KitQueen co-founder Parisha Patel © Craig Watson

“We are so honoured to be partnering with the Scottish Thistles in the lead-up to the momentous Netball World Cup,” says Parisha Patel, Chief Consumer Officer at KitKing and Co-founder of KitQueen. “As a passionate netball player myself, I know what this World Cup means to the players, and to be able to work with Netball Scotland to design this dress has been a real achievement for KitQueen. Together we have created a dress that brings pride to the players, unites them as a team, and inspires them to excel on the court and achieve great success during the tournament.”

Currently ranked 10th in the world, the Scottish Thistles will travel to South Africa to kick off their Netball World Cup 2023 campaign with their opening game against sixth-place-ranked Malawi on 28th July. Alongside them in Pool B of the competition is also Barbados, currently 14th in the world, and England, ranked 3rd in the world. Sixteen teams will be battling it out across the ten days, in the hope they will be crowned champions in netball’s most prestigious event.

About

KitQueen is the world’s first multi-sport teamwear specialist for HER, supplying and customising teamwear for girls and women.

Co-founded by Parisha and her husband Dips owners of Kitking, KitQueen has now established itself as the forefront leader in Her team wear. KitQueen’s mission is to champion inclusivity, diversity, and body confidence in HER team sports, and believes that providing the right education and information on how team kit should work for her, fit her, protect her, support her, give her confidence and make her feel like she belongs. All so she can focus, enjoy, and win her game!

To find out more about the partnership and view KitQueen’s large selection of teamwear, visit https://kitqueen.co.uk/

At Netball Scotland, we consider ourselves to be a pioneering National Sports Governing Body at the forefront of #ChangingTheGame for female sports in Scotland. Passionate about empowering our people to succeed and thrive, we are one of the country’s fastest growing sports, and with the launch of our Vitality Netball Superleague Franchise, Sirens, in 2017 we show no signs of slowing down.

As we head into our next Strategic Planning cycle, Netball Scotland is committed to growing the game, raising performance and developing the sport through innovation, empowerment and excellence, and is now recruiting an experienced and ambitious Head of Commercial & Partnerships to help us with our mission.

A unique and exciting new role, the Head of Commercial & Partnerships will bring strong commercial expertise and business acumen to the Senior Management Team (SMT), and will work closely with the CEO, Board and colleagues to develop and deliver a strategy that will support the growth and aspirations of the sport through business development, income generation and operational excellence.

The ideal candidate will have a record of achievement in leading the development and execution of commercial growth strategies, as well as the vision and energy to take this new role and make it their own. Proactive, innovative and insightful, you will be adept at monetising assets, negotiating at the highest level and turning ideas into reality.

The Head of Commercial and Partnerships will have overall responsibility for:

• Leading the development and successful implementation of the Netball Scotland commercial strategy, developing revenue streams and monetising assets.
• Establishing and owning the sponsorship strategy, including developing the brand proposition, lead generation, contract negotiation, execution of activation plans and reporting.
• Line managing a team of staff and overseeing the day to day commercial and operational performance of the Sirens Superleague Franchise.
• Inspiring, empowering and motivating the Sirens operational & Netball Scotland communications teams to deliver a step change in our operational and commercial approach.
• Partnership management, engagement and activation to generate maximum ROI.
• Working with the SMT to set financial targets and budgets across the business.

Entrepreneurial and strategic in your approach, this is a multi-faceted ‘hands-on’ role which spans leadership, strategy, operations, commercial, revenue generation, financial management, sponsorship, events, PR and communications. A confident communicator, you will be comfortable engaging with, and presenting to, both internal and external stakeholders, as well as speaking on behalf of both Sirens and Netball Scotland.

To secure this position you will need a CV that demonstrates previous success in a leadership position with responsibility for both operational and commercial development. You will also have large measures of passion, determination and enthusiasm for harnessing the power of sport and leveraging the assets for commercial success.

Organisation: Netball Scotland

Salary: Competitive + OTE

Location: Glasgow

Contract type: Fixed Term (Full time)

Closing date: 5pm Friday 24^th August 2018

If you wish to be a part of this exciting new chapter in Scottish sport and feel that you have the skills and experience required, send your CV with an accompanying letter outlining why you believe that you are the exceptional candidate that we are looking for, to:    Claire Nelson, CEO Netball Scotland ceo@netballscotland.com