JOB OF THE WEEK: Venue Hospitality Infrastructure Manager, FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022

Key responsibilities:

• Directly responsible for ensuring construction readiness and overlay installation of Hospitality Facilities, Requirements, Utilities (power, Water/Sewage, IT&&, CATV) and Overlay for Indoor Hospitality Areas (including kitchens) and Hospitality Villages.
• Prepares any necessary paperwork for the handover of the HOS facilities, indoor and outdoor, from SC/Q22 to the Rights Holder.
• Attends all HOS inspections, including the FIFA-LOC inspection, Rights Holder inspections, Affiliates Visits, Supplier visits etc. Reports on the inspection to FIFA HOS, ensures issue resolution at venue level.
• Ensures updated technical documentation from FIFA/MH for all HOS facilities and utilities (power, water/sewage, IT&T, CATV etc) is correctly distributed to the LOC Venue Team, Overlay supplier and Stadium constructor, etc.
• Ensures operational readiness of Hospitality Infrastructure and Utilities, such as: Maintenance of facilities (HVAC, lifts/escalators, kitchen systems, hydraulic systems, CATV, and other stadium-owned equipment in general), Power availability (including ensuring generator operations and maintenance as per HOS needs/schedule), Logistic Routes, etc; including on match days.
• Acting as FIFA HOS first point of contact at the Venue for Infrastructure related issues.
• As part of venue HOS team, provides feedback, operational readiness status and general support during key operational phases to Venue Management Team.
• Any other duties that may be required.

Qualifications and experience:

• Experience as venue manager either in Hospitality or Infrastructure at multi stadium events
• 5 years’ experience of mega events
• 2 years’ project management
• 2 years’ experience of management of multiple suppliers
• Technical, architectural or design experience
• Excellent knowledge of infrastructure and overlay delivery management
• Experience of large-scale event operations
• Experience in high volume, multi-site 5* Hospitality operations and delivery
• Proficient in spoken and written English, Arabic would be an advantage
• Proficient in use of Microsoft Applications Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook

For the full job description and to apply, click here.

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