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SENIOR MANAGER:SPORTS

Eastern Cape, South Africa💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-27

Core

Provide institution-wide strategic and operational leadership for recreational, developmental, competitive, and high-performance sport across university campuses.

Role type

Senior Manager, Sports Operations

Builds

University sports programs, athlete development pathways, and competitive teams

Domain

Higher Education / Sports Management

Required skills

Strategic leadership, budget management, staff management, event safety compliance, anti-doping regulations, sponsorship mobilization, risk management

Preferred skills

Experience in high-performance/semi-professional student sport, knowledge of national sport legislation

Technologies

N/A

Responsibilities

Lead the Institutional Sports function, manage financial planning and budgeting, oversee organizational unit staff, drive institutional sports development, enable university athletes to compete at provincial, national, and international levels

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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