Events Director

USA Climbing is the National Governing Body for the sport of competition climbing in the United States. Competition climbing has grown rapidly since its historic Olympic debut at the Tokyo 2020 Games and its second Olympic appearance at Paris 2024, with continued growth expected heading into the Los Angeles 2028 Games. Our mission is to support the well-being, development, and competitive excellence of our athletes as we advance the accessibility and growth of the climbing community nationwide.

The Events Director leads USA Climbing’s competition and event operations across Youth, Elite, Collegiate, and Para Climbing Series, National Championships, and USA-hosted World Climbing Series events. The Director oversees the full event lifecycle—from calendar development, host facility relationships, budgeting, pre-production, staffing, and volunteer management through on-site execution and post-event evaluation. The role ensures competitions are delivered consistently, efficiently, and in alignment with USA Climbing’s competition standards and organizational priorities.

The ideal candidate is an experienced sports administrator with a strong background in event operations, facility coordination, and staff and volunteer leadership.

• Develop and manage the season competition calendar, balancing the needs of each series, host facilities, athletes, officials, route setters, and other stakeholders, and establish event timelines.
• Identify operational risks and develop contingency plans related to facilities, staffing, scheduling, weather, travel, equipment, and other event-critical needs.
• Manage host facility and event partner relationships from qualification to national-level events, including soliciting and selecting event venues, negotiating and administering host agreements, defining venue requirements, and serving as USA Climbing’s primary point of contact for host facilities, vendors, and event partners.
• Oversee competition administration and event standards, including competition rules, scoring systems, judging standards, appeals and protest procedures, ADA-compliant athlete accommodation requests, belay administration and standards, and event policies and procedures. Work closely with Officials, Technical Delegates, Route setters, Wall Builders, the National Belay Coordinator, and other subject-matter leaders to ensure consistent and effective competition operations.
• Lead USA-hosted World Climbing Series competitions, coordinating with World Climbing, international federations, host facilities, and event partners on technical requirements, venue infrastructure, wall construction and teardown, event staffing, logistics, and event delivery.
• Oversee timelines, equipment, and permitting for wall builds at both events and the Training Center; coordinate closely with the High Performance Director to align training-center wall availability with National Team training schedules and minimize disruption.
• Oversee the implementation of broadcast and livestream production for national and international events, including securing production teams and coordinating AV and technical requirements.
• Lead and manage the Events team, including the hiring, supervision, performance management, workload planning, and professional growth and development of staff.
• Coordinate with the Marketing & Communications team to ensure timely, accurate communication of event details, registration deadlines,…