Essendon's VFL senior assistant and development coach Cam Roberts is promoted to the club's new head of development role.

"Cam's life and coaching experiences, relationships, positive attitude, and planning processes, made him a perfect candidate for this role and we look forward to Cam heading up a great group of development coaches and pulling together a program that improves all Essendon players," Essendon football manager Josh Mahoney said.

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