Mutoya new ZOC chief

executive.
The appointment is with effect from February 1 2011.
Mutoya replaces Robert Mutsauki who left ZOC at the beginning of the year to take up the post of Technical Director on a full-time basis at the Association of National Olympic Committees of Africa (Anoca).
Mutsauki had served as the ZOC chief executive for six years having been the organisation’s secretary-general since 2002.
Before that, Mutsauki had served as the organisation’s vice-president, a position he held following an election in 1998.
He has since relocated to Abuja, Nigeria, where the Anoca headquarters is based.
Mutoya joined ZOC in May 2006 as its Manager Operations and Business Development.
He served in that capacity for two years before he was elevated to the post of general manager in 2008, a position he held until his elevation to the chief executive’s post.
Before joining ZOC, Mutoya worked at the Grain Marketing Board for two years as the parastatal’s Sport and Recreation Officer.
He had moved from the Sports Commission where he had been employed as a Provincial Co-ordinator based in Mashonaland Central Province.
A holder of a Bachelor of Science in Physical Education and Sport, Mutoya also has several qualifications in sports management and administration.
A teacher by training, Mutoya, who also holds a Diploma in Education, has a Certificate in Sports Management acquired from the University of Zimbabwe.
He also attained an Executive Diploma in Sports Management from the Zimbabwe Institute of Management.
Mutoya also has a Diploma in Marketing from the Institute of Marketing Management (IMM).
He is currently finishing an Executive Masters in Sports Organisation Management (MEMOS) with the University of Poitiers of France as well as a Bachelor of Business Studies in Marketing with the Institute of Marketing Management.
Mutoya has vast experience in sports organisation, management and training.
He is one of the part-time tutors at the Zimbabwe Open University where he assists in the Physical Education and Sports department.
He is currently one of the Advanced Sports Management Course Programme Directors together with veteran sports administrator, Edward Siwela.
The Advanced Sports Management Course is an Olympic Solidarity funded programme that aims at enhancing sports administrators’ management proficiencies.
Mutoya and Mutsauki made a formidable duo that was instrumental in spearheading a number of significant ZOC initiatives and projects in the last five years.
The pair, which had a fair balance of experience and dynamism, collaborated in consolidating and distinguishing ZOC as an outstanding sporting organisation earning recognition from the International Olympic Committee and Olympic Solidarity.
To date, ZOC is the only National Olympic Committee (NOC) in Africa that is approved by the IOC to mentor other African NOCs.
ZOC has hosted several delegates from African countries as interns on short-term attachments.
To date, such countries like Liberia, Malawi, Somalia, Zambia, Swaziland, Sierra Leon and Lesotho have benefited from such mentorship through attachments of varying periods ranging from one week to three months.
Other notable developments during the period include the extension of the ZOC headquarters, establishment of an Olympic Museum and Sports Library.
ZOC also set up an Olympic Sports Centre, which saw the introduction of the Olympafrica project and creation of several strategic and business partnerships that have helped them maintain their position as one of the leading sports organisations in Zimbabwe and Africa and indeed the entire Olympic Movement.
One of Mutoya’s priority tasks at the helm of ZOC will include executing the recently formulated ZOC Long Term Winning Strategy that aims to churn out world class athletes by 2020 and consistently win medals at the Olympic Games and other major international competitions through a systematic long-term athlete development programme.
This is no mean feat as it requires mobilisation of significant resources to adequately support this ambitious strategy.