Esports Project Management Admin-1

Job Description

SUMMARY: The Esports Intern is responsible for supporting and facilitating virtual socialization experiences for hosted by Stride Esports for the public.

Project/Program Management Intern focuses on providing central expertise, support, and control for an organization's projects/programs including: developing program/project management best practices/templates and providing training/mentoring to project teams; monitoring dependencies across multiple inter-related projects; gathering and reporting consolidated project status and financial information to leadership. High School diploma or GED, 0-1 year of related experience

SUMMARY: The Esports Intern is responsible for supporting and facilitating virtual socialization experiences for hosted by Stride Esports for the public.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties.

• The Project Management Admin Intern will help plan, organize, promote, and implement the Stride Esports offerings
• Moderate Stride Esports owned discords by answering players to their questions and helping with tournament operations on tournament days
• Help create, maintain, and oversee competitive rules set for all leagues and tournaments
• Facilitate prize fulfillment and maintain all necessary records for tracking purposes
• Help Stride tournament operations team with maintaining and updating event call sheet, event checklists and help with other event logistics
• Ensure that all institutional, as well as any Esports organizational policies and procedures are adhered to and complied with.
• Complete reports on competition progress and completion to the executive team and other departments
• Be a POC for Stride Esports replying to all emails and/or phone calls
• Research and develop new competitive experiences in the Esports arena
• Oversee online challenges/competition and further help evaluating those submissions
• Maintain records for tournaments in aspects like registered users, attendance, prize winners and payouts
• Create and distribute materials for communication within the school and on social media platforms
• Oversee appropriate online conversations among community in socialization platforms
• Ability to represent Stride Esports in presenting opportunities to students and increasing socialization

Supervisory Responsibilities: This position has no formal supervisory responsibilities.

MINIMUM REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:   

• Three (3) years of successful experience in Esports and gaming industry
• Ability to work on the weekend and some nights
• Strong interpersonal and organizational skills and a cordial manner
• Must have access to consistent strong Wi-Fi to work remotely
• Candidates should have experience and knowledge in the gaming industry
• Must have a good understanding of tournament bracketing and rules for some competitive titles
• Must have a solid understanding of the management of equipment, tournaments, and Esports programs
• Proficient in online gaming platforms and Discord
• In addition to knowledge of different games, candidate must have knowledge of Twitch or other streaming platforms
• Equivalent combination of education and experience

Certificates and Licenses: None required

OTHER REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS: 

• Shared view of the league’s mission
• Strong content and subject-matter knowledge
• An ability to support and guide adults as well as students
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Organization and time-management skills
• Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, Visio, etc.); Web proficiency.
• Ability to travel 25% of the time
• Ability to clear required background check

WORK ENVIRONMENT: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• This is a home-based position

Compensation & Benefits: Stride, Inc. considers a person’s education, experience, and qualifications, as well as the position’s work location, expected quality and quantity of work, required travel (if any), external market and internal value when determining a new employee’s salary level. Salaries will differ based on these factors, the position’s level and expected contribution, and the employee’s benefits elections. Offers will typically be in the bottom half of the range.

• We anticipate this position will pay $21.08 - $33.73 per hour. This is a temporary/contractor role, and you will be an employee of Randstad. This salary is not guaranteed, as an individual’s compensation can vary based on several factors. These factors include, but are not limited to, geographic location, experience, training, education, and local market conditions. Randstad offers a robust benefits package for eligible employees that can include health benefits, retirement contributions, and paid time off.

The above job is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of duties and standards of the position. Incumbents will follow any other instructions, and perform any other related duties, as assigned by their supervisor.  All employment is “at-will” as governed by the law of the state where the employee works.  It is further understood that the “at-will” nature of employment is one aspect of employment that cannot be changed except in writing and signed by an authorized officer. 

Job Type

Contractor

The above job is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of duties and standards of the position. Incumbents will follow any other instructions, and perform any other related duties, as assigned by their supervisor. All employment is “at-will” as governed by the law of the state where the employee works.  It is further understood that the “at-will” nature of employment is one aspect of employment that cannot be changed except in writing and signed by an authorized officer.

Stride, Inc. is a Federal Contractor, an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer and a Drug-Free Workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected Veteran status age, or genetics, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)