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Overview
Sport facility managers run sport venues such as halls, pools, gyms or stadiums, coordinating operations, programmes, sales, promotion, safety, development, staffing and customer service.
In job descriptions, look for event coordination, operational business plans, team leadership, incidents, customer complaints, budgets, volunteers, marketing actions, safeguarding and community sport activities.
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Search jobsWhat the work can involve
Sport facility managers keep a venue usable, safe and financially controlled. Work can include bookings, activity programmes, event days, staff rotas, customer service, sales targets, incident handling, maintenance follow-up and volunteer coordination.
Skills and specializations
Useful depth includes team leadership, operational plans, budgets, marketing actions, customer complaints, health and safety for staff and visitors, safeguarding, community sport and coordination with coaches, clubs or schools.
Salary context
Pay is best read through venue size, opening hours, staff responsibility, event load, budget ownership, safety accountability, revenue targets and whether the facility includes pools, gyms, halls or stadium operations.
Career paths
Career paths can move from front-desk, coaching, event or operations roles into duty management, centre management, multi-site facility leadership, community sport development or recreation-business management.
Good to know
Check whether the advert names the facility type, programme mix, staff size, budget duties, incident routines, safeguarding expectations and customer-service targets.
Editorial note
This guide is editorial career context, not official labour-market statistics or role-specific pay data.
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O*NET relationships
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O*NET relationships: 3
Fitness and Wellness Coordinators
11-9179.01
Exact relationship
The official mapping treats the O*NET and ESCO occupations as closely equivalent.
Open in O*NETEntertainment and Recreation Managers, Except Gambling
11-9072.00
O*NET occupation is broader
The O*NET occupation covers a broader field of work than this ESCO occupation.
Open in O*NETSpa Managers
11-9179.02
Close relationship
The occupations are closely related, but the official mapping does not treat them as exact equivalents.
Open in O*NETSource and method
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Occupation group
Sports, recreation and cultural centre managers (1431)
Source facts
| ESCO URI | http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/825ab049-2f0c-4acf-b402-9c6bb51acca2 |
|---|---|
| ESCO code | 1431.3 |
| ISCO group | 1431 |
| Concept type | Occupation |