Furthermore, the role extended into NZR\u2019s contracting structure, helping retain players and steering the game through the Covid-19 pandemic. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s been a huge privilege to be involved in New Zealand Rugby and our national teams for this long, and work alongside some incredible people across the game,\u201d said Lendrum.<\/p>\n
\u201cTogether, we\u2019ve seen plenty of success, although sometimes we haven\u2019t achieved goals that we and the country all wanted so dearly.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are too many highlights but I\u2019m particularly proud of leading the organisation through the Black Ferns culture and environment review in 2021, which set the foundation for the incredible Rugby World Cup win a year later.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs international rugby becomes increasingly competitive and complex, NZR now requires a singular focus on driving the success of our teams in black. I\u2019m excited for their future.\u201d<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, two new roles have been created within NZR\u2019s leadership structure.<\/p>\n
A chief rugby officer job has been created to take care of professional rugby operations, tournaments, competitions, community rugby, and manage key stakeholder relationships and agreements. <\/p>\n
That role will be filled by Steve Lancaster, who stepped into the role of interim chief executive after previously working as NZR\u2019s head of community rugby. <\/p>\n
A high-performance director role has also been created, and will oversee the performance of national teams and report to NZR\u2019s new chief executive, when they are appointed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Furthermore, the role extended into NZR\u2019s contracting structure, helping retain players and steering the game through the Covid-19…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":500229,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[4218,64,63,16806,38019,1325,29253,248495,78969,251609,35485,96489,1697,1787,33372,3206,760,44985,85,171892,20598,36188,1928,3605,3205],"class_list":["post-500228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-another","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-chris","tag-down","tag-general","tag-head","tag-highperformance","tag-leaving","tag-lendrum","tag-manager","tag-member","tag-nz","tag-of","tag-professional","tag-role","tag-rugby","tag-rugbys","tag-sports","tag-stepping","tag-steps","tag-structure","tag-their","tag-with","tag-zealand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=500228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}