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Sports Tourism Coordinator

Salary

$53,854.00 - $67,318.00 Annually

Location

2401 Market St. Baytown, TX

Job Type

Full Time

Job Number

25-00158

Department

PARKS & RECREATION

Opening Date

08/29/2025

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Job Summary

Bring your passion for sports and community to the City of Baytown as our Sports Tourism Coordinator! In this role, you’ll lead the city’s sports tourism efforts—managing events, building partnerships, and promoting Baytown as a top destination for sports travelers. If you’re energized by collaboration, marketing, and enhancing the visitor experience, apply today and help put Baytown on the map!

The Sports Tourism Coordinator is an essential position within the Baytown Parks and Recreation team in the Tourism Division, responsible for the day-to-day operations and strategic direction of the tourism efforts of sports tourism.

This role focuses on elevating the city's tourism profile, strengthening community partnerships, supporting hospitality operations, managing tourism outreach and marketing efforts, and enhancing the visitor experience. The Sports Tourism Coordinator plays a key role in advancing Baytown as a leading destination for sport travelers through collaboration with local businesses, stakeholders, and tourism partners.

The incumbent in this role must maintain a flexible schedule to attend evening and weekend events as needed and must have reliable transportation for visiting stakeholders and attending offsite meetings.

Duties

+ Cultivates and expands Baytown’s sports tourism by building strategic partnerships, offering tailored incentives, and actively promoting the City to event planners through networking, outreach, and support for niche and mainstream sports events.

+ Drives tourism outreach and promotion by managing digital platforms, coordinating event marketing, developing guest experiences, partnering with hotels on incentive packages, and tracking key performance metrics to measure impact.

+ Leads sales and destination development by connecting RFPs to venues, managing sports leads from inquiry to booking, supporting event execution, collaborating on strategic positioning, and advancing professional expertise through certifications and training.

+ Performs all other related duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications

Required:

+ Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited college or institution in Sports Marketing or Management, Travel and Tourism, or a related field.

+ Effective communication skills and ability to demonstrate effective writing skills.

+ Valid driver’s license with an acceptable driving record (must obtain TX driver’s license within 90 days).

OR

+ An equivalent combination of education, experience, certification and/or licenses sufficient to successfully perform the essential functions of the job.

Preferred:

+ Experience in the tourism or hospitality industry, sports or sales.

+ Bilingual (Spanish/English).

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

+ Basic Knowledge of various sports such as fishing, cricket, volleyball, soccer, softball, basketball, etc.

+ Understanding of sales strategies to cultivate long-term customer relationships and strategic partnerships.

+ Excellent customer service and customer experience strategy & execution.

+ Strong organizational abilities, with a capacity to manage multiple projects simultaneously.

+ Ability to work independently, take initiative, and make sound decisions in a fast-paced environment.

+ Familiarity with social media platforms and digital marketing strategies.

+ Skilled in using Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and other digital tools.

+ Ability to work collaboratively across departments and external stakeholders.

+ Attention to detail in data entry, communication, and materials preparation.

+ Ability to represent the City of Baytown in a professional and engaging manner.

Here at the City of Baytown, in recruiting for our team, we welcome the unique contributions that you bring. We strive to provide a workplace where differences are honored, with a workforce that reflects the diversity of the people we serve.

Attendance is an essential function of this position. This position provides services or performs duties for the benefit of the general public during emergency situations. These may include services or duties different from those performed in the usual course and scope of job. In the event of an evacuation, the incumbent in this position may be required to remain to perform needed services.

Overall Position Strength Demands

Light Work: Exerting up to 20 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 10 pounds of force frequently, and/or a negligible amount of force constantly to move objects.

To promote health and wellness, we provide a comprehensive benefits program (listed below) to meet the needs of you and your family. Our goal is to help you live and work well – 365 days a year.

Medical

+ United Healthcare

+ Effective the first day of the month following 30 days of employment

+ Annual Deductible (Network) $750 Indiv/$2,250 Family

+ In-Network Benefit 80%/20% after plan deductible

+ $50 co-pay (general visit)

+ RX - $10 Generic/$40 Formulary/$75 Non-Formulary

+ Flexible Spending Accounts: Healthcare and Dependent Care expenses

+ FREE virtual visits

Dental

+ Cigna Dental PPO & DHMO

+ Effective the first day of the month following 30 days of employment

+ Preventative & diagnostic covered at 100%

+ Annual Deductible: $50/Indiv (Cigna PPO) - No annual deductible for Cigna DHMO

Vision

+ Superior Vision

+ Effective the first day of the month following 30 days of employment

+ In-Network exam co-pay $10 & $25 materials co-pay

+ Frames: $140 Allowance - Contact Lenses: $160 Allowance

Holistic Health & Wellness

+ Employee Wellness Center offering FREE primary care medical treatment for employees & dependents on the Medical plan

+ FREE access to gyms, Shipt, and Walmart+ through our employee medical insurance

+ Gym partnership with Lee College Wellness Center & swimming pool for $58/year

+ Employee Assistance Program providing employees and their household family members up to 8 FREE counseling sessions per issue per year, legal and financial assistance, will generator tools, and more!

+ Sick Leave Pool providing participants additional paid sick time if accruals are exhausted.

+ SmartDollar: free online program providing tips and tools from Dave Ramsey for getting out of debt and building good saving practices

Retirement

+ Texas Municipal Retirement System:

+ 7% employee contribution with a 14% employer match

+ 5 year vesting

+ Retirement Eligibility: 20 years of service/any age - or - 5 years of service/at least age 60

+ FREE Life Insurance coverage up to 1X your base annual salary

+ MissionSquare and Roth IRA plans: additional voluntary employee participation

Disability Insurance

+ Equitable:

+ Long-term Disability: voluntary elected coverage. Pays 60% of monthly earnings up to $8,000 per month up to social security age, depending on the disability

+ Short-term Disability: voluntary elected coverage. Pays 60% of weekly earnings up to $1,000 per week for up to the first 13 weeks of a disability

Training and Tuition Assistance

+ The HUB Employee Training Center: we invest in you by equipping you with the knowledge and skills needed to live out our Purpose and Core Values

+ Access to funding up to $1,500 per semester or $3,000 per year for tuition toward courses that are job-related or will enhance your work performance

Generous Paid Sick, Vacation, & Holiday Leave

+ 10 holidays per year and one personal employee day per year

+ 15 days sick leave per year

+ Starting at 10 days of vacation per year; up to 25 days per year

+ Sick and Vacation hours roll over annually up to the maximum limit

+ 15 days Paid Parental Leave

To explore all of the benefits we offer, please visit: baytownlife.com

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Which of the following best describes your highest level of education completed in Sports Marketing or Management, Travel and Tourism or a related field?

+ High School Diploma/GED

+ Associate's Degree

+ Bachelor's Degree

+ Master's Degree

+ None of the above

02

Do you have a valid driver's license with an acceptable driving record? (Must obtain TX driver's license within 90 days)

+ Yes

+ No

03

This role requires promoting and supporting sports events. Briefly describe any experience you have in event coordination, tourism, hospitality, or sales. If you have none, please put N/A.

04

What experience do you have using digital platforms or social media to promote events or organizations? If you have none, please put N/A.

05

If you are bilingual in which language are you most proficient?

+ I am not bilingual

+ Spanish

+ Vietnamese

+ Chinese

+ French

+ Urdu

+ Other

+ American Sign Language

06

This position requires evening and weekend availability. Are you able to maintain a flexible schedule to meet these needs?

+ Yes

+ No

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Employer

City of Baytown

Address

2401 Market Street Baytown, Texas, 77520

Phone

281-420-6520

Website

http://www.baytown.org

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