A qualified school teacher, following the end of his playing career, Greaves was a coach of the
Geelong Falcons from 2010 to 2011 in the
TAC Cup. He had started his coaching career with
Leopold in the
Geelong Football League and had worked at the
Victorian Institute of Sport. He was then appointed as an assistant midfield coach under
Mark Neeld at the
Melbourne Football Club ahead of the 2012 AFL season. He would hold a variety of roles at Port Adelaide, before joining as the head of player development at the end of the 2018 AFL season. He left North Melbourne following the 2019 AFL season, joining the AFL as an umpires coach from 2019 to 2021. Greaves then joined at the end of 2021 as the club's coaching and innovation manager, spending four years at the club then Greaves departed the Carlton Football Club at the end of the 2025 AFL season. In October 2025, Greaves moved to Sydney after he was appointed in a coaching and leadership role at the
Manly Warringah Sea Eagles in the
National Rugby League. ==References==