Job Description
NJ/NY Gotham FC (“Gotham FC” or “the Club”) is a National Women’s Soccer League (“NWSL”) team representing New Jersey and New York. The team plays at Red Bull Arena in Harrison, NJ.
The Role:
Gotham FC is seeking an Assistant General Manager position, under the supervision of the General Manager. This staff member will work closely with the General Manager and Head Coach to accomplish team, sporting, and business objectives. This position involves the ability to maintain a schedule in line with a sports team, including weekends and nights.
Key Responsibilities:
- Support General Manager on club matters, including team makeup, trades and draft, salary cap, and player contracts.
- Manage team salary cap and ensure effective management and delivery of player contractual obligations.
- Negotiate contracts with player representation and ensure their fulfillment.
- Take the lead in working with the Player Development Assistant Coach to document all Player Outlook Plans and IDP’s.
- Ensure the club maintains a good standing with the league and CBA requirements, including adhering to the NWSL Operations and Competition manuals. Be the rules expert for soccer.
- Be responsible for the overall financial performance of soccer operations, working across the organization.
- Manage and file player payroll, tracking overall expenditures with Gotham Finance department.
- Track the NWSL Competition Calendar and deadlines, including international and trade windows.
- Serve as point of contact for NWSL interaction, working with the League in soccer matters, including helping the league determine competition rules (e.g. drafts, salary cap).
Qualifications:
- B.A./B.S., or equivalent work experience in a leadership role at a sports organization.
- 5+ years’ experience working in the technical, sporting, or analytics department of a soccer Team or youth organization. Women’s soccer experience strongly preferred.
- Demonstrated ability leading a multi-disciplinary team.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Spanish proficiency preferred.
- Ability to work well within a group environment.
- Ability to multi-task and complete multiple jobs at once, particularly tasks that are time sensitive.
- The job requires regularly lifting/pushing up to 25-40 pounds and occasionally lifting/pushing more than 50-60 pounds or exerting heavy force, in a wide disparity or environmental conditions.
- The job involves standing, stooping, kneeling, bending, lifting, pushing, etc. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Capability & Other Characteristics:
- Exceptional business acumen with the ability to utilize critical thinking to research, leverage, and synthesize macro events and activities to enhance and strengthen the People function.
- Demonstrated organizational and interpersonal skills with a passion for women’s empowerment in sports and business.
- Outstanding facilitation and negotiation skills with the ability to engage all levels of the organization.
- Ability to maintain confidentiality and objectivity, practice sound judgment, build and foster trust.
- Comfortable working with ambiguity in a fluid environment, be resourceful and creatively find solutions to meet the tasks and challenges at hand.
- A doer who is able to work at fast pace, with a bias towards action.
- Engaged leader, mentor and team player with strong interpersonal and relationship-building skills at all levels and can inspire and manage people to grow professionally.
- Excellent analytical and strategic skills, as well as high emotional intelligence.
- An entrepreneurial spirit, eager to try new things and be innovative.
- As this is an exempt position, willingness and ability to work long hours, including weekends and evenings.
- Legally authorized to work in the United States.
Location:
This position is fully in-person, based at Gotham FC’s soccer operations office and practice facility, located in Whippany, New Jersey. Ability to attend all home games and any mandatory events as well as away games, as necessary. A willingness to travel for other business-related needs, as they arise. Ability to work at the team’s business operations office in Jersey City, New Jersey, as needed. Gotham FC requires its associates to live in its market, that is, within reasonable commuting distance of Gotham FC’s offices, practice facility and Red Bull Arena.
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Gotham FC is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes everyone to our team. We are committed to broadening the pool of qualified talent for consideration, including those who have been historically underrepresented. We strongly encourage people of color, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and non-binary people, veterans, parents, and individuals with disabilities to apply.
Job type: Full-time Exempt position
Job type: Full-time Exempt position
Salary range: $110,000 - $150,000 annually
Benefits: Medical, Dental & Vision benefit plans available for Employee and Family, Employee funded 401(k) option
This job description is a broad summary of the essential job functions and general duties for this position, the additional job duties that may be required from time-to-time, the level of knowledge and skill typically required, and the scope of responsibility, but should not be considered an all-inclusive listing of work requirements. The person in this role may be required to and must be willing to perform other duties as assigned, to meet organizational needs. This job description may be modified from time to time, at the sole discretion of Gotham FC.
This employee must follow and enforce all policies and procedures formulated by Gotham FC and be a role model for the organization.
The existence of this job description does not modify the employee’s “at-will” status. That is, unless a signed employment contract specifying a term of employment exists between Gotham FC and the employee or his/her/their representative, both Gotham FC and the employee will have the right to terminate the employment relationship at any time, with or without reason or notice, unless otherwise prohibited by law.
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