Cluster Venue Manager
Location: Glasgow
Salary: £45,000
- £60,000
Job Summary
This position will play a pivotal role in the operational
planning and delivery of specific Games Venues. A key focus will be
to take a lead role as the venue manager in the planning and
preparation of the model venue exercise and to provide extensive
venue operations input into the review of competition and
non-competition venue concept plans. As the role evolves, the focus
will shift to coordinating detailed venue operations plans for
multiple venues and eventually lead a venue team in the
preparation, readiness testing and operational delivery of a Games
venue for the XXth Commonwealth Games.
Main Responsibilities
Reporting to the Head of Venues, the Cluster Venue Manager will
be responsible for the following:
• Managing a cluster of multiple venues that will evolve to
managing a specific venue
• Preparation and participation in integrated venue planning,
including model venue planning, detailed venue planning and event
planning
• Lead a team to plan and validate venue tasks and
deliverables
• Liaise with sport and overlay on competition technical
requirements, detailed design of the field of play, the competition
schedule, programme area levels of service and para-sport
integration where applicable
• Ensure your venue team’s full participation in agreed
training, rehearsal and games readiness simulations
• Coordinate the contingency planning for your venue team in
collaboration with Risk, Health & Safety, Command and Control,
Security, Transport and Site Management
• Develop highly effective working relationships with Functional
Area Managers, incumbent Venue Management and your venue teams
• Contribute to the development of the venue communication
programme
• Monitor and report on progress against venue planning
milestones
Person Specification
Key skills, experience and competencies required:
• Candidates must have a proven track record in delivering
venues within an international sport Games or championships
context
• Significant experience in the end-to-end delivery of
large-scale projects requiring an integrated approach
• Sound knowledge of budgeting and resource allocation
procedures with an innate ability to make difficult decisions
• Leadership – provides vision, direction and support to
employees and teams to enable organisational objectives to be
achieved
• Building Relationships and Networking – builds effective
working relationships with customers, partners and stakeholders in
order to facilitate joint-working
• Communication – proactively shares information with others and
does so clearly and concisely • Delivers Results – drives to
achieve an outstanding, athlete-centred and sport-focused event of
world-class competition
• Commitment, Motivation and Drive – committed to delivering
Games which will be celebrated across the Commonwealth, generate
enormous pride in Glasgow and Scotland, and leave a lasting
legacy
Diversity and Inclusion
Glasgow 2014 is committed to recruiting a diverse and inclusive
workforce which brings a broad range of talents, skills,
experiences and cultural values which will enrich the experience of
the athletes, spectators, visitors and workforce that support the
Games. The approach being taken to the recruitment and management
of the workforce will promote and secure fair treatment, dignity,
respect and equal opportunities for every member of the
workforce.
Glasgow 2014 will work closely with its partners and
stakeholders to encourage women, black, Asian and minority ethnic
people, and people with a disability, to apply for employment and
volunteering opportunities with the Games.
Eligibility to work in the UK
Legislation dictates that all employees must have the right to
work in the UK. Please note that all non-EU nationals must have an
appropriate UK immigration permission before they can take up
employment.
We are legally obliged to ask you to provide appropriate
documents, such as your passport, visa or birth certification in
accordance with the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act
2006.
Closing date: Friday 7th October, 2011 at
5pm
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