Rogers left in May to take up a similar role with the Tauranga City Basketball Association.
His partner, BBO director of development Rachel Gwerder, followed him to Tauranga, leaving the body with a skeleton staff and the board with two vacancies to fill and the opportunity to review its strategic direction.
"I suppose, where we are currently at is we are still trying to draft up a job description that fits the roles that have been vacated," BBO chairman Ricky Carr told the Otago Daily Times yesterday.
Carr stressed it was important to appoint the right person to drive the organisation forward, and that might mean redesigning the roles to match that person's skill set.
"Our main focus is finding the right person. Depending on who we attract, we may have to redesign to a degree.
"If the person we employ has those skills, then we might look at combining the two roles. But we'd need to not overload them."
Carr hinted the board was leaning towards appointing someone who would have overall control but perhaps more focused on lifting the Otago Nuggets franchise, leaving the day-to-day operations and administration to another employee.
"It is a good opportunity for somebody to actually cut their teeth and take us from where we sit currently in the NBL to better places."
Whoever replaces Rogers will not have an easy road.
The Nuggets have been a financial drain on the organisation.
BBO decided against fielding a team in the 2009 competition, citing an unwillingness to continue supporting the cash-strapped franchise at the expense of the sport's development.
But sweeping changes to the board ushered in a change of heart, and a successful bid was made to re-enter the league this season.
The Nuggets lost all of their 18 games and in the wash-up there was a general consensus BBO needed to do a better job of recruiting if the team was going to be more competitive in future seasons.
One way of doing that was to find and make more resources available.
However, Carr said BBO's main priority was to make basketball accessible for the community.
"We haven't gone away from that," he said, while adding a successful Nuggets team would be a great advertisement for the sport in the region.
The board will "cast the net wide" and hopes to fill the vacant positions "as soon as practical".
"We are hoping to have the job description completed by this weekend and some more meat put into that, and potentially advertise it in August," Carr said.
