Sport Manager, Rowing Coastal Sprints

The role leads the operational planning that delivers Rowing Coastal Beach Sprints at the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Reporting to the Sport Manager, Rowing, the role serves as LA28's subject-matter expert for the discipline and the primary liaison with World Rowing. It shapes the venues, schedules, equipment, and workforce that bring the discipline to life, coordinating across LA28's functional areas to deliver a world-class competition.

The plans and workforce built in the role allow athletes to compete at their best before a global audience.

• Liaise with World Rowing and coordinate with Venues and Infrastructure and Event Management on competition and training venue design.
• Act as LA28's subject-matter expert for Rowing Coastal Beach Sprints, refining Event Operating Plans and validating equipment requirements with World Rowing.
• Collaborate with World Rowing on competition and training schedules, and integrate their requirements with Timing, Scoring and Results into systems and infrastructure.
• Lead the Competition Management workforce for Rowing Coastal Beach Sprints and the Belmont Shore Sport team — strategy, recruitment, onboarding, and daily leadership.
• Serve as the point of entry and stakeholder manager for World Rowing, managing pre-Games site visits and briefing senior Sport leadership.
• Manage inputs to the Rowing Sport Delivery Plan and lead the workforce through testing and Games-time delivery.

• Minimum 5+ years' experience delivering national- and international-level Rowing Coastal Beach Sprints events in a leadership role.
• Extensive knowledge of Rowing Coastal Beach Sprints and event operations across multiple levels, with coordination experience with international and US sport governing bodies.
• Fluent working with Office suite products, including Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint.
• Extremely detail-oriented and highly organized, with strong communication and interpersonal skills to build relationships across the organisation and with external stakeholders while balancing assertiveness with diplomacy.
• Available to work onsite at LA28's Los Angeles-based office; LA28 does not provide relocation assistance.
• Valid passport required, with availability for international, domestic, and local travel (typically 20% or less of working hours) for federation and NGB events and venue site visits, increasing as 2028 approaches.

• Direct Olympic and Paralympic sport experience at a previous OCOG or multi-sport Games, or delivering international-federation events.
• A collaborative mindset that prioritises the team without ego, and the ability to manage change effectively.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience, preferred.

• Onsite at LA28's Los Angeles-based office; no relocation assistance is provided.
• Open floorplan working environment; employees must be able to work efficiently in an open cubicle environment.
• The majority of work is conducted in an office setting, requiring extended periods of time using computers, phones, and other office equipment.
• Hours of work may vary, including evenings, weekends, and holidays, especially during peak event periods.

• A once-in-a-generation chance to deliver a sport on the world's biggest stage.
• Real ownership of Rowing Coastal Beach Sprints, from venue design to competition delivery, with cross-functional exposure across LA28.
• A collaborative Sport team that prioritises high performance without ego.

LA28 is the independent, non-profit, privately funded organising committee for the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games. The 2028 Games mark the return of the Summer Games to the U.S. for the first time in 32 years and Los Angeles’ third time hosting an Olympic Games and first time welcoming the Paralympic Games. LA28 is guided by the values of optimism, integrity, excellence, inclusion, co-creation and boldness.