Visitor, 40, spent three years as head coach of Loughborough Lightning, and latterly The Blaze following the area’s transfer to Nottinghamshire in 2022, and guided the staff to victory on this season’s Charlotte Edwards Cup.
Alongside his regional commitments, he additionally led the England Girls U19 World Cup programme as head coach in 2023, in addition to the U19 tri-series between Sri Lanka, England and Australia earlier this yr.
He has additionally served as assistant coach at Northern Superchargers throughout the earlier three editions of The Hundred.
Visitor’s new function will incorporate a training function, together with overseeing the U19 Girls’s T20 World Cup in Malaysia subsequent yr, whereas additionally main on expertise identification from the academy and senior programmes, which can feed into England’s U19 exercise.
Visitor beforehand labored in ECB pathway teaching at each Derbyshire and Staffordshire.
“The pleasure and pleasure of sporting the Three Lions over previous few years has been immense and to have the ability to accomplish that on this new function is an unimaginable feeling,” Visitor mentioned.
“With the expansion of the ladies’s sport, it is a privilege to tackle this function as it is going to concentrate on making certain our younger cricketers get the cricket they want on the proper time which I’m extraordinarily enthusiastic about.
“I totally loved my time at The Blaze. It is an ideal place to work and has been huge a part of my improvement and I want them each success sooner or later.
Richard Bedbrook, the pinnacle of England Girls Efficiency Pathways, mentioned: “We’re delighted to have Chris on board.
“He has huge expertise within the girls’s sport, robust relationships with and data of all our home groups and this new full-time function will enable him to assist form the event of our highest potential gamers in a collaborative vogue earlier than, throughout and after any worldwide U19 exercise.
“His qualities have vastly affected the earlier England Girls U19 environments and we’re all wanting ahead to his inspirational strategies influencing future programmes and methods in a optimistic method.”
Director of England Girls’s Cricket, Jonathan Finch, added: “The ICC Below-19 Girls’s T20 World Cup supplies unbelievable alternatives for our younger expertise to expertise event match play towards their friends from different nations.
“Chris’s appointment permits us to construct on these experiences, by means of nearer relationships with the counties, to reinforce the help the gamers get at this age group.
“Chris brings a wealth of expertise from the ladies’s home sport and can play a key function in shaping the experiences younger gamers have on their journey to worldwide cricket.”
