• Baseball Operations Coordinator

    Cooperstown All Star Village (Oneonta, NY)


    Summary

    As a successful Baseball Operations Coordinator, you will assist in organizing summer tournament programming at the world-class facility at Cooperstown All Star Village. The position will play an integral role in scheduling for all core lines of programming, operations of tournaments, assisting in oversight of part-time operations staff, along with a wide variety of related duties and activities. This individual will be responsible for ensuring quality control surrounding all baseball activities and to ensure our tournaments exceed expectations. This is a full-time fixed term (nine-month) position from January through September with year-round benefits. The hourly rate is $19/hour.

    Responsibilities

    As our Operations Coordinator, you will:

    + Monitor and evaluate all schedule requests made by teams for tournaments

    + Produce tournament schedules for approval by the Baseball Operations Manager

    + Serve as on-site supervisor for summer weeklong tournaments

    + Closely monitor all baseball operations related inventory

    + Assist in week long tournament sales efforts under the Baseball Operations Director

    + Assist as a lead for skills competition and opening ceremonies as necessary

    + Ensure that sponsorship activities related to tournament play are executed

    + Assist in facilities operations, food and beverage, retail operations as needed

    Qualifications

    We require: Bachelor’s Degree

     

    + 1-2 years of experience working in sports business/operations or related field

    + Solid understanding of youth baseball and tournament operations

    + Strong written and oral communication skills

    + Strong interpersonal skills

    + Positive approach to learning

    + Strong work ethic

    + Good planning, directing, and organizational skills

    + Excellent customer service orientation to respond to the needs of parents or coaches

    + Ability to work in a team environment

    + Ability to supervise others

    + Ability to work long extended hours and weekend/holidays as needed

    We prefer:

    + Bachelor’s degree in sports- or business-related fields such as Sports Marketing, Management, or Instruction

    + Former collegiate or professional baseball and/or softball experience

    + Proven track record of leadership in a professional environment

    + Sound knowledge of the game of baseball/softball and tournament operations

    + Willingness to take on special projects and roles based on the needs of the company

     

    Special Physical Requirements/Working Conditions

     

    + Routinely required to work extended hours as dictated by business needs

    + Physical ability to accomplish all tasks

    + Routinely lift or move up to 50 pounds at least 20% of the time

    + Routinely exposed to extreme hot/cold weather conditions, and dust/particles