Global Event Delivery and Volunteer Strategy Lead

parkrun; West Yorkshire; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A global sporting organization based in the United Kingdom is seeking a candidate to manage event delivery and volunteer strategies. This role involves overseeing parkrun events and collaborating with global teams to ensure they align with organizational principles. The successful candidate will also help shape strategic initiatives and lead cross-functional projects. Applicants should be passionate about community engagement and operational excellence.

Responsibilities

• Sets overall global strategy for event delivery.
• Oversees volunteer strategy and community growth.
• Shapes and delivers parkrun's global strategy.

Job description

Brief role description :

Reporting to the Chief Executive Officer, this role is responsible for what happens in our parks and open spaces on Saturday and Sunday mornings, for the community of volunteers who make this happen and for how we support participants and event teams with their requests and queries.

This role oversees all aspects of delivering and supporting parkrun events across the world, collaborating with global colleagues to ensure that parkrun events continue to be delivered in line with our principles of simple, scalable, sustainable and our promise that they will be free, for everyone, forever.

This role will also have oversight of the effective delivery of our volunteer strategy and will ensure that our volunteer community and ambassador networks global continue to grow, diversify and thrive.

Also overseeing the Support team who manage event risk assessments and respond to range queries, the successful candidate will be responsive to the learnings from the Support team and translate them into new policy or practice.

Finally, as a member of the SLT this role will help shape and deliver parkrun’s global strategy, championing event delivery and leading cross functional projects.

Main responsibilities :

Sets overall global strategy for event delivery, ensuring that parkrun events are not only safe and accessible, but the barriers to...