The DOSB is looking for disabled people to fill 12 vacancies ©DOSB

The German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB) has announced that they are looking to recruit 12 people with disabilities into sport inclusion management positions.

Bringing people with impairments into the full-time positions in sports associations is one of the main goals of the DOSB and the Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs (BMAS). 

Both organisations hope to employ 23 people into full-time positions as sports inclusion managers in each of the next two years.

As of July 1, there will be 12 vacancies in various sports organisations to be filled.

Paralympic swimmer Tobias Pollap has given his backing to the project ©Getty Images
Paralympic swimmer Tobias Pollap has given his backing to the project ©Getty Images

Eleven sports inclusion managers with disabilities have already been working in full-time roles since the start of 2017 with the DOSB concluding that this "strongly advances the inclusion efforts when people with impairments are experts in their own cause".

German Paralympic swimmer Tobias Pollap, who trains children and young adults with disabilities, said it is important to convey that "disability is just one of many traits".

The DOSB are committed to the implementation of the United Nations' Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, of which the DOSB's Sport Inclusion Managers project, funded by BMAS, is an important part.