Senior Manager - Watersports

The Red Sea Development Company

Job Responsibilities:

• Reporting directly to the Cluster manager of WAMA, assisting in the management of all phases of water sports related projects.
• Work alongside Delivery Team to develop and deliver water sports centres and necessary components to make them stand alone operations, considerate of wider marine L&E portfolio.
• Work alongside Health & Safety and Legal Departments to develop policies, procedures and source operational licenses.
• Serve as a Subject Matter Expert in Water Sports
• Support with the writing and management of roll out and on-going delivery of Standard Operating Procedures and processes related to the delivery of water sports activities at key water sports venues within the Red Sea Development Project.
• Support with the liaison between us and 3rd party service providers who may be brought in to deliver key elements of training related to the delivery of specific water sports activities offered as part of the 'products' available at any given venue.
• Working closely with Asset Management to monitor and manage standards of operators.
• Instructors work a 48 hour six day week, with one day off each week, which may not fall on the same days, each week and are entitled to 25 working days holidays a year.

Support on communication with international manufacturers of equipment chosen for use within the water sports activity programs, as well as with local / regional distributors that may be involved in terms of providing

• routine equipment maintenance services and arranging periodical equipment replacement as and when required by the master plan.
• Conduct regular specialist safety audits and program delivery evaluation visits alongside any activity specific 3rd party experts that may be required.
• Establish internal operational teams and oversee divisional management of business asset outlets.
• Work alongside Operational General Manager, and that team, to plan, manage and deliver continued professional development (CPD) sessions for water sports activity program delivery staff as and when required in-line with our appetite to own in-house as DMO hybrid and/or lead with a focused team the 3rd party operators we engage as brand or white label functions across the sporting disciplines.
• On-going support for the team to ensure the water sports activity programs are delivered in keeping with the overarching sustainability goals as set out in our project master plan.
• Work alongside Director of Sports & Adventure to engage development Project leaders for the integration of Water Sports related tourism elements into their projects.
• Attend project meetings, develop detailed project plans to monitor and track progress and update existing project database.
• Create and maintain project presentations.
• Collate, create, and maintain site visit survey presentations and database.
• Collate department information and communications to generate internal and external media publications.
• Possible remote work out of RSSE offices may be required.