Sport Manager - Wheelchair Basketball

Location: Office-based in Los Angeles, California, United States. The role includes international, domestic, and local travel for federation and National Governing Body events, venue tours, site visits, and sporting events.

Annual base salary: $88,000–$108,000 USD.

Company

hirify.global is an independent, non-profit, privately funded organizing committee responsible for delivering the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

What you will do

• Support operational planning and delivery for Wheelchair Basketball competitions and training activities.
• Coordinate with the International Wheelchair Basketball Federation on venue design, schedules, requirements, site visits, and delivery plans.
• Provide Wheelchair Basketball expertise for event operating plans, sport delivery plans, testing activities, and Games-time readiness.
• Validate sport equipment and timing, scoring, and results requirements across relevant systems and infrastructure.
• Support workforce strategy, recruitment, onboarding, training, and Games-time coordination for competition management.
• Collaborate with venues, event management, transport, accommodation, ticketing, hospitality, athlete relations, technology, finance, and other functional areas.

Requirements

• Minimum 5 years of experience delivering national and international Wheelchair Basketball events in a leadership role.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience.
• Extensive knowledge of Wheelchair Basketball and event operations across professional, federation, university, grassroots, national, and international contexts.
• Experience coordinating with international and US sport governing bodies and collaborating across multiple functional areas.
• Strong organizational, communication, interpersonal, problem-solving, team-building, and change-management skills.
• Fluent working knowledge of Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint, with the ability to work independently and manage detailed deliverables.

Nice to have

• Previous Olympic or Paralympic sport experience at an Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games, multi-sport Games, or International Federation-level events.

Culture & Benefits

• Work in a collaborative, inclusive, high-performance environment guided by optimism, integrity, excellence, inclusion, co-creation, and boldness.
• Office-based work in Los Angeles with approximately 20% or less international travel and additional domestic and local travel.
• International travel may occur 1–2 times per year for one- to two-week intervals; domestic and local travel may increase as the 2028 Games approach.
• A valid passport is required for international travel.
• hirify.global does not provide relocation assistance.