Air Force Marathon Programs Director

Senior Marathon Director

Serves as the senior leader responsible for the strategic direction, financial health, long-range growth, and overall performance of the Department of the Air Force's endurance events enterprise. Leads and directs the economic and efficient operation of the Air Force Marathon and Space Force T-10 Miler flagship events. Provides administrative oversight, supervision, and management. Exercises direct supervision over the Air Force Marathon Race Director, Space Force Race Director, and all Functional Directors. Within established guidelines and objectives, develops activities to meet needs of participants while developing within parameters of funding, facility, equipment and staff support. Establishes performance goals, provides mentorship, and conducts annual appraisals to continuously evaluate the effectiveness of staff and on-going marathon activities; identifying how and where the program can be strengthened and improved. Identifies, evaluates, and develops new event opportunities to expand the DAF's endurance portfolio and strategically grow the enterprise. Exercises final budget oversight for the entire enterprise by ensuring development, management, and administration of all monthly, quarterly and annual APF and NAF budget requirements; monitors/explains variances and makes revisions as necessary. Ensures all donations and support received from sponsorship and applicants are handled in accordance with applicable guidelines. Reviews the coordination efforts and planning associated with all marathon activities. Ensures coordination for transportation requirements; security assistance; and other support operations to include telephone and radio communications, Audio/Visual, Medical Services, Engineering, Public Affairs, Protocol, Safety, and Legal support is complete, and all necessary functional requirements are prepared and in place for marathon events/activities. Coordinates and arranges with state and local law enforcement and transportation agencies to ensure all applicable government regulations are followed in obtaining and securing necessary permits from each jurisdiction for highway and local road closures for AF Marathon events, oversees coordination of equivalent requirements for Space Force Develops, administers, and negotiates contracts for the best quality and pricing of supplies, equipment and service contracts in support of the marathons, ensures procurement/contracting efforts are accomplished in accordance with applicable rules and regulations. Serves as the primary marathon publicity/public relations spokesperson. Oversees implementation of the Air Force and Space Force marathon marketing plans. Leads and supervises Air Force and Space Force marathon support staff in all capacities, ensuring functional teams are resourced and structured to provide effective matrixed support to both Race Directors for event-specific planning and execution. Plans and assigns work to subordinates, sets priorities; evaluates work performance; gives advice; counsels or instructs employees on both work and administrative matters. Interviews, recommends appointments, promotions or reassignments. Works to achieve the objectives of personnel programs and policies and deals effectively with employees on complaints, grievances, and other matters involved in the day-to-day administration of the program. Ensures proper training is conducted for key personnel. Identifies and arranges training needs; develops performance standards. Schedules travel opportunities to attend local, state, and national meetings, conferences, and seminars that pertain to running a marathon. Travels to marathons and special events to assess racecourse, setup, and flow. Irregular work hours may be required to represent the Air Force and Space Force Marathon during marathon and other related events. Serves as the primary liaison between the Marathon office and finance and contracting. Assists with volunteer staffing plans to ensure maximum number of volunteers is provided to support logistics and operations. Ensures Expo, Pre-, and Post-Race events are smoothly executed. Performs other related duties as assigned.

*This vacancy is subject to closing early if qualified applicants have applied. Applicant reviews will be completed weekly or biweekly during this announcement period.