Road Race Director
This position is exclusively for the road series. Race Directors execute 200-mile relay races that create an experience for people to share with their closest friends and stories they will cherish for their entire lives. Though you aren’t in the van with them, you’ll be a tour-guide for Ragnarians by building courses that highlight areas of local interest, have unforgettable views and capture the heart and soul of your market.
As a Race Director, you will develop and execute strategic and tactical event operation plans, establish and manage overall event operation budgets and perform other duties related to the company's operational strategy for multiple races per year. Physical labor, heavy lifting, and working weekends and long hours during races is a requirement. This job will average 40-50 hour work weeks and most of those are at the office, in front of a computer.
Essential functions and responsibilities:
- Excellent communication with all parties inside and outside of the company
- Assist in the development of race budgets and expense management, and adheres to the same
- Acquire necessary permits – Venues, Cities, Counties, Fire, Health, DOT, etc.
- Provide vendor management - contracts, deliveries, equipment, etc.
- Supervise volunteer management - SWAT, race day volunteers, charity volunteers
- Manage charity relationships and execute charity commitments
- Coordinate all logistics for the race
- Create effective layouts (parking, shuttle, venue, evacuation, etc.)
- Pre-race travel, course/venue setup, and Race Day execution
- Responsible for maintaining a safe and logistically sound race route
- Supervise post-race wrap-up - both internal and external, compile all feedback and needed improvements, and implement the necessary changes the following year
- Customer Service - Answer questions forwarded from customer service or that come directly to you
- Drive large vehicles up to 26’ U-Haul trucks
- Sustainability - Help execute the race sustainability plan including waste reduction, energy use, and procurement practices
- Ability to work on little sleep and make clear, effective decisions under high stress during race weekend
- Vendor management – Scoping, contracts, deliveries, equipment, etc.
- Other tasks as assigned
Travel Requirement: Anticipate up to 40% travel throughout the year
Physical Demands: While performing duties of job, incumbent is occasionally required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms; talk and hear. Employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus
Work Environment: The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree
- Minimum 2-5 years relevant experience
- Leadership experience required
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to work effectively as a member of a team and multiple cross-functional project teams
- Well-organized with ability to multi-task, time management, and high attention to detail
- Detail-oriented self-starter with the ability to prioritize projects, work within short time frames and meet deadlines
- Conflict resolution experience preferred
- Heavy lifting (50 lbs.)
- Working weekends and long hours during races
- This position requires 40% travel
- Any experience with budget management, operations, event management, and/or logistics is a big bonus
- Have run and/or worked a Ragnar is a plus