Case Studies
My role involves heading up the Games Workforce
Department, which includes overseeing the following funcitonal
areas: Volunteer Recruitment, Games Workforce Services,
Games Workforce Planning and Operations, Uniforms and
Training
We’ll be looking to recruit up to 15,000 volunteers and they’ll
cover roughly about 400 roles, which will be specialist
and non-specialist positions.
I was attracted to work for Glasgow 2014 because it is the
biggest sporting event that Scotland’s ever hosted and probably
ever will host, certainly in my working life. To be part of such an
inspirational team certainly appealed to me. I want to be part of
that team who are aiming to put on an outstanding Games, on time
and on budget. To be part of that team and make it work for
Scotland was really a challenge that I was up for.
To get up in the morning and go into your work and do something
that you’re so passionate about, and I love sport, is something
that people would pay money to do. I feel really happy that I can
do a job that I really enjoy.
This is not a permanent job, it will end in August 2014 after
the Games, but I think the experience that I’ll have gained, from
working with so many different people, across a variety of subject
areas, I feel will definitely help me in my career path.
Also there is a lot of people that move from Games to Games but
I think for Glasgow and Scotland wide, it is really good that there
are people who come from Glasgow and Scotland working in the
Organising Committee, gaining a wealth of experience and we’ll
be able to keep that experience here for other major events
that might come to Scotland.