Life After Politics
In 2005, he was appointed as the CEO of the National Rugby League's Player Manager Accreditation Program. He was also a match day commentator on the ABC's rugby league coverage.
In October 2008 he took 6 NRL Players, Nathan Hindmarsh, Justin Poore, Todd Payten, Jared Hickey, Jared Warea-Hargreaves and Todd Carney to Rwanda to work in the Village of Hope for Hope Rwanda. They worked in the village building houses for widows and orphans. They visited the famed Mountain Gorillas and News Limited and Fox Sports had extended coverage of the trip. All the players reported how much the trip had affected them and how far the country had come since the 1994 Genocide. He returned in 2009 with 6 Parramatta Eels Players, Justin Poore, Joel Reddy, Matthew Keating, Joe Galavou, Tim Mannah and Joe Paulo. They worked in the same village and also made the trip to the border of Rwanda and the Congo at the Volcanoes National Park to visit the Mountain Gorillas.
Midway through the 2009 NRL season, Parramatta Eels Chief Executive Denis Fitzgerald was replaced by Osborne. He then oversaw the troubled club's rise to the grand final winning 7 regular season matches in a row on the way. The Eels under Osborne broke the record for the biggest crowd at a match outside of the Grand Final when 75,000 people attended the Preliminary Final. The Eels defeated the Bulldogs in that match. His friendship with Rugby convert Timana Tahu was pivotal in him returning to the Eels from Rugby for the 2010 Season.
On the 15th of November 2011 Paul Osborne announced that he would no longer be Chief Executive of the Parramatta Eels after Christmas due to "A working relationship between Paul Osborne and the club's major naming rights sponsor Pirtek is no longer tenable"
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