WESTERN Bulldogs assistant coach Leon Cameron says Port Adelaide's off-field situation has not deterred him from chasing the senior job vacated by Mark Williams.

Cameron, who has been an assistant at the Bulldogs for nearly seven seasons, has met with the Power in their first round of interviews to find Williams' successor.

Matthew Primus has been the club's caretaker coach since round 16.

Cameron said football operations manager Peter Rohde had been honest about the club's position, including its financial instability.

"He's pointed out all the positives of the football club and some of the issues," he told Melbourne radio station SEN on Wednesday. "All clubs have issues in some way or form.

"I'm coming from a football club out here at the Western Bulldogs that have been fantastic in terms of spending their money in the right spots.

"We don't have a membership base of 45 to 50,000 you can rely on year in, year out to bring that revenue in.

"But [the Power] have been fantastic in outlaying the whole club and hopefully I'll be pushing on sometime next week."

Cameron said meeting with Richmond last year ahead of that club's eventual appointment of Damien Hardwick had helped him prepare for the Power process.

He also said he hadn't been frustrated by working in a support role, despite his long-standing ambition to become a senior coach at AFL level.

"This is my seventh year and each year you keep learning and the game changes, trends change," Cameron said.

"There's still a lot of things that stay the same but I don't think there’s any time limit.

"People think that because you've been in the system five or six years, you better put your hand up or you'll miss out because there will be retiring players that might take your spot down the track.

"Every individual is different. If it happens to me this year or in 10 years' time or not at all, I look at it as I learn every year and I'm developing myself each year to get one of those spots one day."

Along with Primus, Essendon assistant coach Alan Richardson, Collingwood midfield coach Mark Neeld and Fremantle assistant Chris Scott are understood to be on Port's shortlist.