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Being part of the Executive Directorate for the 27th World University Summer Games is a perfect opportunity to make a contribution to the preparations and staging of the Games, which are very important for our country, as well as to unveil the potential and gain a unique experience of working in the largest international project. Our team is made up of people of different professions, ages and views of life. But we are all united and working towards the same goal: to carry out the best World Summer University Games ever!
The functional areas of the Kazan 2013 Executive Directorate are:
- Organization of sports programme and test events,
- Infrastructure and maintenance of the Universiade venues,
- Coordination of volunteers,
- Financial planning and supervision,
- Cultural and social programmes,
- Marketing, advertising and communication,
- Information technologies,
- Accommodation and services,
- Logistics and transportation services and other equally important activities.
If you:
- Have extensive experience and specialized knowledge in your field and wish to apply it within the implementation of the Kazan 2013 project;
- Are fluent in foreign languages and aspire to improve/support your language skills through regular practice;
- Have a project management mentality, where a primary goal is to ensure a full implementation of projects from defining a goal to turning a project into reality in compliance with agreed deadlines;
- Are energetic and enjoy a dynamic pace of work that requires making quick “out of the box” and creative decisions in the shortest time possible;
- Are a fan of sports and support its development in our country,
— then send us the your filled in application form below.
We will consider your candidacy and will immediately contact you if your skills meet our expectations. Good luck!
Open vacancies
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Knowledge management expert
Job responsibilities:
- to establish organisational, communicative and technological conditions for adopting experiences from previous Universiade organising committees;
- to create the system of knowledge and experience accumulation;
- to keep in touch with FISU and other Universiade organising committees in order to gather information;
- to organise and hold debriefings, conferences, seminars;
- to manage a resource centre, including the process of cataloguing and processing publications, multimedia and electronic media;
- to develop and manage Games information depositories;
- to organise and stage FISU Conferences;
Requirements:
- diploma of higher education;
- not less than five years of work experience in the field, skills and knowledge required to successfully plan, manage and deliver sports events, ability to gather and systematise knowledge and information;
- ability to direct a team;
- fluent English;
- strong knowledge of Microsoft Office, Internet;
Terms:
- full time employment;
- HR initial documentation flow executed according to the Russian Labour Code;
- remuneration (salary+bonus);
- coverage of mobile phone expenses.
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Leading expert of food and beverage department
Job responsibilities:
- to teach food safety requirements to the personnel of a food processing enterprise;
- to carry out a sanitation programme and evaluate its effectiveness;
- to elaborate and implement Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP) systems;
- to develop and introduce a healthy eating plan;
- to prepare analytical reports fro senior management of a food processing enterprise;
- to be responsible for conducting internal audits of quality management system and food safety;
- to cooperate with executive powers in the sphere of sanitary control;
Requirements:
- diploma of higher education;
- not less than two years of work experience in the position of food safety and quality control expert;
- knowledge and understanding of specific requirements of the ISO 22000 / PAS 220 standard;
- knowledge of the Russian legislative and regulatory framework in the sphere of sanitary control;
- good spoken English desirable;
Terms:
- full time employment;
- HR initial documentation flow executed according to the Russian Labour Code;
- remuneration (salary+bonus);
- coverage of mobile phone expenses.
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Brand protection expert
Job responsibilities:
- to monitor network resources with the aim of identifying cases of illegal use of the 2013 Summer Universiade official symbols;
- to ensure timely response to illegal use of official symbols of the 2013 Summer Universiade: to prepare official letters, notices, to report to law enforcement authorities any actions that may be illegal;
- to control the quality of licensed products, to take measures to ensure a better quality;
- to carry out the programme aimed at promoting licensed products: to organise briefings, seminars, presentations, advertising campaigns, etc;
- to cooperate with official licensees of Kazan 2013, to make sure the license agreement is implemented properly;
Requirements:
- diploma of higher education(major in marketing, international communications, event management or foreign languages);
- knowledge of PC software(MC Office, Promt, Design);
- English proficiency (not lower than Intermediate);
Terms:
- full time employment;
- HR initial documentation flow executed according to the Russian Labour Code;
- remuneration (salary+bonus);
- coverage of mobile phone expenses.
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Leading expert of procurement and supply management department
Job responsibilities:
- to gather, generalise and analyse demands of structural departments of the Directorate;
- to prepare buying plans;
- to research the market with the purpose of defining possibilities of suppliers (contractors, executors) and price trend fluctuations;
- to conduct talks with suppliers and negoatiate terms of delivery;
- to ensure the purchase of goods and services is done at competitive prices and favourable terms;
- to draft contracts and other documents related to purchases, as well as to sensure they go through and get approved;
- to place orders, to keep track of deliveries or the process of rendering services, to settle invoices with suppliers, to make sure that suppliers fulfill all their obligations and to inform the chief on it;
Requirements:
- diploma of higher education;
- work experience in purchases (not less than one year), not less than three years of overall work experience;
- English proficiency (not lower than Beginning).
Terms:
- full time employment;
- HR initial documentation flow executed according to the Russian Labour Code;
- remuneration (salary+bonus);
- coverage of mobile phone expenses.
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Chief expert of procurement and supply management department
Job responsibilities:
- to gather, generalise and analyse demands of structural departments of the Directorate;
- to prepare buying plans;
- to research the market with the purpose of defining possibilities of suppliers (contractors, executors) and price trend fluctuations;
- to conduct talks with suppliers and negoatiate terms of delivery;
- to ensure the purchase of goods and services is done at competitive prices and favourable terms;
- to draft contracts and other documents related to purchases, as well as to sensure they go through and get approved;
- to place orders, to keep track of deliveries or the process of rendering services, to settle invoices with suppliers, to make sure that suppliers fulfill all their obligations and to inform the chief on it;
Requirements:
- diploma of higher education;
- work experience (not less than two years); not less than five years of overall work experience;
- English proficiency (not lower than Beginning).
Terms:
- full time employment;
- HR initial documentation flow executed according to the Russian Labour Code;
- remuneration (salary+bonus);
- coverage of mobile phone expenses.
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Weather service expert (meteorologist)
Job responsibilities:
- to render consulting services to employees regarding the issues of hydrometeorology and weather forecasting;
- to develop and update specialised forecasting models;
- to draft and examine technical and other documentation on matters regarding hydrometeorology and weather forecasting;
- to attend working meetings as an expert in the sphere of hydrometeorology and weather forecasting;
- to have a clear understanding of principles of gathering and processing of information on weather conditions;
- to have a clear understanding of how weather measuring instruments work(intended use, principles of operation, types of devices);
- to train volunteers;
Requirements:
- diploma of higher education or incomplete higher education (fifth-year student), major in meteorology, hydrometeorology, climatology, agrometeorology and similar specialisations;
- English language skills (written English), strong knowledge of PC (MS Office, Internet, email);
- analytical/mathematical thinking, psychological stability, willingness and ability to self-educate, willingness and ability to get along with colleagues;
Terms:
- full time employment;
- HR initial documentation flow executed according to the Russian Labour Code;
- remuneration (salary+bonus);
- coverage of mobile phone expenses.
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Sports equipment expert(working with technical documentation)
Job responsibilities:
- to draft technical requirements for primary and service equipment;
- to control delivery of equipment;
- to coordinate schedules of drafting project and work papers;
- to place orders and to make sure that all orders for equipement, spare parts and maintenance service are executed; to train staff to use the equipment, to conduct orietations.
Requirements:
- vocational high education or higher education diploma, or incomplete higher education (fifth-year student);
- experience of working with technical documentation;
- knowledge of PC (Word, Excel);
- professional: specialised knowledge and skills, ability to keep corresponding records;
- personal: accurateness, emotional stability, communicability, commitment;
Terms:
- full time employment;
- HR initial documentation flow executed according to the Russian Labour Code;
- remuneration (salary+bonus);
- coverage of mobile phone expenses.
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Sports publications expert(journalist, philologist)
Job responsibilities:
- to gather information for managing the website's sports content;
- to work with the sports competition schedule department;
- to write texts;
- to develop a concept, to prepare and coordinate sports publications;
- to coordinate and develop Intranet content (content update, content management, interfunctional communication);
- to create a PSD design and convert it into HTML;
- to train volunteers;
Requirements:
- diploma of higher education (major in journalism, philology, etc)or incomplete higher education (fifth-year student);
Desirable:
- work experience in corporate communications;
- experience in coordinating editorial process (papers, magazines, Intranet);
- English proficiency (not lower than Intermediate);
- good editing skills;
- knowledge of image and text editing programmes(Adobe‚ Corel, etc);
- knowledge of prepress;
Terms:
- full time employment;
- HR initial documentation flow executed according to the Russian Labour Code;
- remuneration (salary+bonus);
- coverage of mobile phone expenses.
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Timing and scoring expert(working with information systems of the Games)
Job responsibilities:
- to work in team with other divisions of the sports competition schedule department;
- to interact with international, national and republican sports federations;
- to work with suppliers of TS & OVR equipment (Timing, Scoring and On-Venue Results), potential partners and sponsors;
- to interact with managers and supervisers to ensure an efficient operation of TS &OVR equipment at Games venues;
- to make sure that the sports competition schedule in the area related to TS & OVR equipment is prepared and implemented in accordance with requirements of FISU and international sports federations;
- to coordinate volunteers at Games time;
- to take part in testing TS & OVR equipment;
- to keep record of work done and prepare reporting documents;
- to solve technical issues (Internet, connection, maintenance, etc) related to TS & OVR equipment;
- to provide, to collect, to store final documents related to TS & OVR equipment;
Requirements:
- diploma of higher education, or incomplete higher education (fifth-year student), major in technical education, management;
- commitment, organisational skills, communicability, grammatical correctness, stress resistance;
- strong knowledge of PC, good knowledge of Microsoft Office;
- English proficiency (not lower than Intermediate);
Terms:
- full time employment;
- HR initial documentation flow executed according to the Russian Labour Code;
- remuneration (salary+bonus);
- coverage of mobile phone expenses.
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Sports information centre expert
Job responsibilities:
- to interact with Games venue managers;
- to identify possibilities of information support;
- to determine demands for the information regarding results, calendar and schedule of the Games;
- to define the locations and algorithms for disseminating and gathering information;
- to take part in the work of the information centre;
- to coordinate information systems;
- to prepare reporting documents;
- to train volunteers;
- to plan the activity;
Requirements:
- diploma of higher education, or incomplete higher education (fifth-year student) – major in journalism, editing, philology;
- work experience in a publising house, work in the possition of an editor and journalist;
- commitment, organisational skills, communicability, stress resistance;
- good computer knowledge (MS Office, text editing software);
- English proficiency (not lower than Intermediate);
Terms:
- full time employment;
- HR initial documentation flow executed according to the Russian Labour Code;
- remuneration (salary+bonus);
- coverage of mobile phone expenses.
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Web content editor
Job responsibilities:
Ensure a timely online publication of articles and news on the website, provide print media with photographic materials, coordinate a photographer's work, create photo and video archives. Keep records and documents.
Requirements:
- diploma of higher education;
- work experience (not less than 3 years);
- knowledge of image-editing software, advanced user of Photoshop;
- skills for working with photo galleries (mandatory);
- English proficiency.
Terms:
- full time employment;
- HR initial documentation flow executed according to the Russian Labour Code;
- remuneration (salary+bonus);
- coverage of mobile phone expenses.
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Editor-in-chief of the official website
Job responsibilities:
- Develop the editorial climate and coordinate the creation of the official website, determine editorial workflow schedules and monitor their implementation. Coordinate and get personally involved in content management of the website, manage a planned development of the site, fill it with high quality media materials in accordance with the the editorial policy.
- Control fulfillment of editorial workflow schedules in compliance with the agreed deadlines, as well as ensure the literary integrity and quality of media materials (which also includes control of a copyreader's work).
- Get articles approved for publication.
- Coordinate designers and contractors' work.
- Provide regular data monitoring of the editorial office's activity and analytical metrics for the website visits.
- Monitor user feedback emails and answer them.
- Develop proposals and guidelines for changing technical, technological and other properties of the website in order to improve its consumer appeal and bring it in compliance with the requirements of the Directorate.
- Execute service documentation.
- Participate in PR activities of the website: give comments, provide information to the media and etc.
- Participate in the website's budgeting.
- Guarantee a rational use of material, technical and other resources of the editorial office.
Requirements:
- diploma of higher education (philological, journalism educations are desirable);
- work experience (not less than 3 years in the position of a senior editor, copy editor or editor-in-chief);
- knowledge of web technologies, knowledge of all stages of editing process;
- knowledge of image-editing software, such as Coreldraw, Illustrator, Photoshop and others;
- ability to process large mounts of information in printed or Internet media;
- perfect literacy both in written and spoken Russian;
- strong knowledge of HTML, CSS, PHP, Java;
- English proficiency (Upper Intermediate);
- Confident proficiency of sports and youth policy would be an asset.
Terms:
- full time employment;
- HR initial documentation flow executed according to the Russian Labour Code;
- remuneration (salary+bonus);
- coverage of mobile phone expenses.
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Leading expert of marketing and sponsorship department
Job responsibilities:
- to create presentations and partnership offers;
- to prepare business letters, briefings and reporting documents;
- to manage the workflow of documents;
- to arrange and prepare meetings and negotiations;
Requirements:
- diploma of higher education;
- work experience (not less than 2 years);
- basic marketing knowledge;
- proficiency in MS Office, Adobe;
- English language skills;
Terms:
- full time employment;
- HR initial documentation flow executed according to the Russian Labour Code;
- remuneration (salary+bonus);
- coverage of mobile phone expenses.
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Project manager
Job responsibilities:
- to manage the preparation of operational plans of functional departments in the run up to the Games;
- to develop the tactical plan of the preparations for the 2013 Summer Universiade (MS Project), to coordinate the changes to the deadlines and budget;
- to update the functional plan of preparing and staging the 2013 Summer Universiade, and also other plans provided for by regulatory documents of the organisation;
- to identify and formalise projects in functional departments; to develop and keep a register of projects;
- to enter project implementation data and data regarding project milestones in the computer-aided control system;
- to coordinate the development of functional departments' project management plans, to manage the budget;
- to contribute to the initiation of projects in the Project Committee;
- to ensure that projects meet the deadlines, to identify problems, to render assistance in solving them;
- to gather project reports, to coordinate the preparation of functional departments' summary reports; to submit plans, reports and other information to the Project Management Office (PMO);
- to render assistance to project groups in preparing, administering projects and keeping project records;
- to coordinate the introduction of management system in the function block;
- to execute knowledge management practices and analyse lessons learned from projects implemented by functional departments;
- to gather the KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) from functional departments, to constantly review a set of KPIs to evaluate the status of achievement of each Master Goal, to asess risks of failing to keep up with the KPIs;
Requirements:
- diploma of higher education (major in project management) and not less than three years of work experience;
- or higher professional education and further training in the sphere of project management and not less than three years of work experience;
- experience in working with international partners;
- experience in working in project-oriented organisations within a tight timeframe;
- exclusive planning and time management skills;
- ability to take right decisions quickly;
- ability to work on a tight timetable and to remain competitive under pressure;
- knowledge of the Guide to Project Management Body of Knowledge and other regulations in project management;
- experienced PC user: MS Office (including MS Project 2010), Outlook, PowerPoint and IT skills;
- project management experience;
- skills in financial and budgetary management;
- time management and ability to set project priorities;
- fluency in English (both written and spoken);
- project management certificates (PMI, IPMA, etc) are seen as an asset;
Personal competencies and behavioral characteristics:
- high self-discipline and performance;
- strategic mindset, system thinking;
- perfect presentation skills;
- ability to implement different tasks qualitatively and on schedule, despite pressing deadlines;
- result orientation, communicability, analytical skills, leadership qualities;
- ability to make independent decisions;
- stress resistance;
- flexibility (ability to turn a focus on new tasks, to change priorities when necessary and inspire a team to accept changes);
- excellent interpersonal communication skills;
- ability to showcase an initiative and to seek advice;
- accurateness and attention to details;
- ability to maintain confidentiality;
- readiness to open-ended working days and work in a fast-changing environment;
Terms:
- full time employment;
- HR initial documentation flow executed according to the Russian Labour Code;
- remuneration (salary+bonus);
- coverage of mobile phone expenses.
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Accreditation expert
Job responsibilities:
- to organise accreditation process during test competitions and other events;
- to work with event registration database system;
- to manage the workflow of documents;
Requirements:
- diploma of higher education;
- not less than one-year work experience;
- English proficiency (not lower than Intermediate);
- basic computer knowledge (MS Office);
Terms:
- full time employment;
- HR initial documentation flow executed according to the Russian Labour Code;
- remuneration (salary+bonus);
- coverage of mobile phone expenses.
