Paul Healy has been head rugby coach at the Northern Territory Institute of Sport for the past year.
He has taken a three-year contract at the Ordizia Rugby Club in northern Spain.
He will leave the Territory at the end of the week.
"The opportunity presented itself to get me back into a professional coaching role with rugby and also back into Europe where there is a lot of activity with rugby," he said.
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