Scott Jones Email & Phone Number

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Canada Running Series consists of 9 road races held annually across the 4 cities of Vancouver, Edmonton, Montreal, and Toronto. The flagship Scotiabank Toronto Waterfront Marathon regularly draws over 25,000 runners, representing over 75 countries. Executing events of this scale and magnitude, across multiple venues, and cities requires an incredible amount of logistical planning, coordination, communication, and precision execution from the Operations Team. As Operations Manager, some of those responsibilities include the following:Supply Management- Responsible for event supplies including sourcing, tendering, ordering, receiving and tracking inventory. Operational Planning- Work with the venue & course teams to ensure a thorough understanding of their requirements, create the plans for staffing, supplies, truck loading and delivery & teardown schedule for each event.- Communicate with all suppliers and provide clear instructions, schedules, maps and diagrams.Warehouse Logistics- Day-to-day warehouse operations, as well as managing inventory and deliveries.- Develop and maintain health & safety best practices for the warehouse and it's users, including full time and contract staff, and volunteers.Logistics Team- Understand the unique operational requirements for each event and build a Logistics Team to meet these needs.- Recruit, train, schedule, manage and evaluate the Logistics Team.- Prepare race manuals and lead training sessions prior to each event.Virtual Races- Create, innovate, plan, and execute as part of a team, the transition and evolution from in-person racing events to virtual events necessitated by the COVID-19 pandemic.- Design a strategy, plan operations, source materials, and adhere to a budget for race kit fulfillment. Manage fulfillment operations and planning for safe in-person pickups, sponsor partnerships, local deliveries, and domestic and international shipping options for close to 20,000 total race packages.

Greater Toronto And Greater Vancouver Areas

Experience and previous contracts includes sport management, event management, facility/venue operations, logistics, planning, recreation administration, warehouse management, maintenance and construction, sport officiating and officiating instruction workshops. Previous clients include Ironman Canada, Cycling Canada, Canadian Running Series, Stebbins Engineering, and Mississauga Sport and Social Club.Available for full time permanent or contract employment opportunities, including international opportunities.

Toronto, Canada Area

• Provide strategic and operational planning to volunteers and staff.• Support, preparation of documents, materials to assist leadership volunteers in the delivery of their job requirements.• Develop and monitor the financial budgets for the Sport, International Relations, and Medical programs.• Develop and foster key relationships with National and Provincial Sport Organizations, participating countries’ national liaisons, Medical partnerships, and other internal and external partners.• Delivery of a world class field of play for each of the 12 sports in the Games.• Develop scopes of work and other operational and business inputs to service procurement in order to achieve value-for money outcomes.• Ensure participation by leadership volunteers in operational planning forums and venue teams to help integrate function issues and priorities within overall operational planning. • Complete robust functional operational planning within the planning framework.• Develop required policies and procedures. • Develop presentations to internal and external partners.• Oversee contract RFP process and contract management.• Drive the planning, recruitment, engagement and management of a highly skilled and motivated team which includes volunteers.• Lead the team, identify strategies and avenues to achieve desired results.• Ensure adequate standard of morale conducive to maintaining high levels of motivation for all volunteers and staff.

Toronto, Canada Area

• Participate in the development and successful execution of the strategies and plans for the Sport function including sport competition, sport operations and services, sport presentation, and para sport planning and integration• Foster strong and meaningful relationships with key sport stakeholder groups including Provincial and National Sport Organizations, International Sport Federations (IF), Sport Organizing Committees (SOC), and National Olympic and Paralympic Committees• Recruit, develop, supervise, and mentor a team of 7 Sport Managers and Coordinators, as well as recruiting, training, and managing a separate volunteer SOC for each sport• Contribute to the development and management of all aspects of the operating budget for the overall Sport program, and each individual sport budget, providing regular forecasts, and identifying efficiencies where possible• Create, manage, and update sport competition and training schedules• Provide sport specific input and requirements into the venue planning and operations of competition and training sites• Coordinate and deliver the required IF Technical Delegate visits• Develop sport specific policies and procedures and ensure all Games wide policies are implemented at Games time• Create educational and informational sport organization and operational content and training materials to present to various provincial, national, and community sport organizations and volunteers• Manage the TO2015 NOC Support Program, receiving and reviewing applications, and providing grants to allow organizations from 41 Pan Am countries to host sport administration workshops and coaching clinics• Directed the single TO2015-owned Test Event, hosting the first ever competitions at the newly constructed Cisco Milton Pan Am/Parapan Am Velodrome: The 2014 Canadian Track Championships and the 2015 Milton International Challenge, welcoming over 200 athletes from 9 different countries over 7 days of competition

Vancouver And A 9 Month Trip Right Across Canada

The Rick Hansen 25th Anniversary Relay was a 9 month tour across Canada, recreating the route of the original Man In Motion World Tour. The Relay served as a vehicle to create awareness for the incredible spirit and abilities of people with disabilities, while celebrating 25 years of progress in making Canada and the world a more accessible place for people with disabilities. The Relay provided an opportunity for over 7,000 selected Medal-Bearers to share their stories and help propel a singular Rick Hansen medal over 12,500km across Canada.Management of operations and logistics coordination of the Medal-Bearer programs including integration with sponsors, government partners, communities and other stakeholders. Developed and implemented Medal-Bearer operation plans, and logistics initiatives including call center/fulfillment house set-up and uniform and medal production and distribution. Coordinated Medal-Bearer database procedures, including segment positioning support for appropriate placement of the 7,000 participants.

Whistler, British Columbia

Assisted in managing a venue of almost 2 square kilometers, consisting of 3 stadiums (Biathlon, Cross Country Skiing, and Ski Jump), hosting 28 events and approximately 150,000 spectators over 17 days of competition.Coordinated timelines, schedules, information dissemination, and communication between approximately 25 functional areas working on the venue, including Overlay, Logistics, Technology, and Sport Presentation.

Vancouver, Canada Area

Supervised a team of eight full time Sport and Venue Managers, 64 volunteer Sport Coordinators, and four interns. Directed the design, operation, and management of the Sport program that involved over 10,500 athletes from 56 countries, participating in 64 sports, at 60 venues over a 10 day competition period. Assisted in venue selection, identifying field of play overlay requirements, and setup, installation and removal schedules.Created and conducted recruitment, training, and domain presentations, negotiated contracts with provincial and local sports organizations, drafted and executed personal services agreements with professional event directors, recruited and contracted sports officials, referees, judges, and technical support for all events, and managed the scheduling and results of all sports.

Columbia, South Carolina Area

Directed an intramural sports program consisting of approximately 40 different sports leagues, tournaments, and special events, and over 1300 teams each year.Managed an intramural sports administrative office and a full athletic training clinic operating out of two separate recreational facilities.Supervised one full time Intramural Sports Coordinator, two Certified Athletic Trainers, two interns, and a student staff of approximately 125 supervisors, and sports officials.

Athens, Oh

Administered and advised 32 sports clubs that provided instruction, recreation, and/or competition in specific sport activities (e.g. martial arts, soccer, tennis, golf, water polo, and ice hockey) for approximately 1200 student-athletes.Supervised the maintenance, lining, risk management, and scheduling of four outdoor facility complexes including fields for rugby, soccer, lacrosse, and baseball

Ms, Sport Management

Activities and Societies: Club Soccer, Campus Recreation

B.R.L.S., Recreation And Leisure Studies

Activities and Societies: Campus Recreation, Lacrosse, Rowing,