SCOTTISH Rugby bosses have begun the task of replacing the retired Brian Kennedy on the Murrayfield board of directors.
An announcement on the governing body's website highlights an opening for someone to make a "creative and informed contribution" to implementing policies set out in a strategic plan for the running of the oval ball game through to 2012. The advert
also says the candidate will have to act as a "constructive critic".
Other duties will include monitoring the performance of executive management and helping to "connect the business and board with networks of potentially useful people and organisations".
An undisclosed salary is being paid for what amounts to 1-1.5 days per month.
While it is essential to have operated at a senior management level and have the ability and reputation to act as an ambassador for Scottish Rugby the ad lists as "desirable" a knowledge of rugby in Scotland from grassroots to professional.
Other non-executive directors reporting to chairman Allan Munro include Graeme Millar, Chairman of the Finance Committee of the Mary Erskine's and Stewart's-Melville Schools in Edinburgh as well as ex-internationalist and Heriot's president Jock Millican, a business consultant.
The board also includes nominees from the Scottish Rugby Council, the representative body of the member clubs and other stakeholders.
Kennedy, originally from Edinburgh and an ex-Inverleith player now based in Cheshire, where his ventures include a successful double glazing company, stood down from the board earlier this year.
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