CSA Vacant Secretary General Position

[RudoJ]

I guess most of you saw the email that was sent over the weekend. Therein CSA advertises the above-mentioned position.

 

Anyone here considering going for it? With all the issues regarding lisences/PPA and general rants, it seems like this job is one most would not like to have.

 

Being just a middle of the field rider, happily paying his club and lisence fees, I dont have any major issues. But I suspect that the Pro's and top riders here on the Hub, that have dealt more directly with CSA, have more issues.

 

I dont want to open a can of worms here, but just want to see what the main issues are and how they might be resolved etc. And before anyone asks, yes I am considering applying.

 

Thanks!

Edited August 20, 2012 by RudoJ

[littleswazi]

Yip, saw this.... Look interesting. Would love to have a role in a industry industry/sport passionate about....

[Napalm]

The biggest problem with CSA and the provinces is very simple - it's overwhelmingly run by volunteers. So what happens is that some of the volunteers try to make a buck by doing dodgy things.

 

Secondly the CSA must decide if it wants to be a organisation promoting elite cycling, or mass participation. It can't do both.

[Java001]

The biggest problem with CSA and the provinces is very simple - it's overwhelmingly run by volunteers. So what happens is that some of the volunteers try to make a buck by doing dodgy things.

 

Secondly the CSA must decide if it wants to be a organisation promoting elite cycling, or mass participation. It can't do both.

 

CSA in turn is indirectly managed by and dictated to by Government/SASCOC, who have given them a specific mandate to "transform" the sport. When it meets these goals and conditions, it qualifies for LOTTO funding.

 

So if a cyclist can see himself and his needs catered for within those parameters, CSA is of benefit ............... if not, his license payment and all indirect payments by race organisers, provincial structures etc. becomes his donation/contribution to transformation and goals and objectives that do little to promote the sport. Problem is that CSA controls the sport, so its for most not a voluntary decision to join them.