Four months after Pat Howard's demise, Cricket Australia hopes to have a job description available for a new high-performance chief as early as this week, with several high-profile names already linked with the role.

Consulting and executive recruitment firm Egon Zehnder is set to finalise a job description for a CA position that will play a major role in shaping the development and performance of the national men's and women's programs, and the pathway system, over the next five to 10 years.

Interim high performance chief Belinda Clark is steering the process. Credit:Elesa Kurtz

The job description will be available on CA's website once finalised. It's believed a range of people across Australian cricket will be involved in the interviewing process.

Those involved in the process have all confirmed the role will differ to the way it had been run under Howard, who was often seen as an autocratic and even polarising figure, although he did shake up the system and helped secure home Ashes and World Cup victories.