I appreciate that they posted compensation per position.
https://usrowing.org/careers
Under 19 World Championships Assistant Coach - Men's Sweep (11/15/2024)
Under 19 World Championships Assistant Coach - Men's Sculling (11/15/2024)
Under 19 World Championships Assistant Coach - Women's Sweep (11/15/2024)
Under 19 World Championships Assistant Coach - Women's Sculling (11/15/2024)
High Performance Coach Sculling (11/18/2024)
Sports Broadcaster – Rowing (11/18/2024)
USRowing Timing Contractor (11/18/2024)
2025 Under 19 Selection Development Camp and International Regatta Assistant Coaches - 8 available (11/20/2024)
Internships
2025 Under 19 National Team Selection Camp Intern - 2 available (11/15/2024)
2025 U19 Selection Development Camp and International Regatta Intern - 2 available (11/20/2024)
Jobs at USRowing
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250 a day for a sports broadcaster,?!
Those are some long days and can be wearing.
Those are some long days and can be wearing.
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Position is open, Chief Experience Officer (CXO)
https://usrowing.org/news/usrowing-exec ... isory-role
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https://usrowing.org/news/usrowing-exec ... isory-role
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Ehm… it’s actually the chief EXPERIENCE officer… $160,000 salary. Wow.
"Speed Matters"
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"Job Summary:
The Chief Experience Officer (CXO) delivers meaningful and sustainable value to USRowing individual and organizational members through effective, scalable, and mission-aligned grassroots programs. They support the Member Services, Competition, Learning & Development, and Safeguarding teams through consistent excellence in organizational leadership, data-driven decision making and capital allocation, internal and external stakeholder engagement, and a results-oriented approach to performance and overall organizational success that prioritizes growth and excellence. The CXO is a true end-to-end owner who can deliver programs and projects from ideation to execution to evaluation, a player-coach who scales by working cross-functionally through others while maintaining close attention to the details and rolling up their sleeves when needed, an operator who actively manages P&Ls to drive organization stability, and a strategic and clear-eyed thinker who aligns long-term goals with the steps required to achieve them."
This hits every bingo of "use big words that say a lot but also say nothing to make it sound professional and advanced." Throw in some acronyms while you're at it, too. Make it so no one can really truly gauge your success or failure because there is nothing to gauge by, just big word vomit.
The Chief Experience Officer (CXO) delivers meaningful and sustainable value to USRowing individual and organizational members through effective, scalable, and mission-aligned grassroots programs. They support the Member Services, Competition, Learning & Development, and Safeguarding teams through consistent excellence in organizational leadership, data-driven decision making and capital allocation, internal and external stakeholder engagement, and a results-oriented approach to performance and overall organizational success that prioritizes growth and excellence. The CXO is a true end-to-end owner who can deliver programs and projects from ideation to execution to evaluation, a player-coach who scales by working cross-functionally through others while maintaining close attention to the details and rolling up their sleeves when needed, an operator who actively manages P&Ls to drive organization stability, and a strategic and clear-eyed thinker who aligns long-term goals with the steps required to achieve them."
This hits every bingo of "use big words that say a lot but also say nothing to make it sound professional and advanced." Throw in some acronyms while you're at it, too. Make it so no one can really truly gauge your success or failure because there is nothing to gauge by, just big word vomit.
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Regardless of the wording, this is a long awaited and very welcome move by USRowing.
This sport will never grow itself with better excel spreadsheets. It will never grow itself by constantly screaming DEI.
Rowing will only grow when it is seen as much cooler than it currently is. That is going to take transformational thinking.
If I were looking to hire someone for this role I would be looking for someone succeeding in professional women's sport and probably soccer. The questions they are focusing on are not "how do we monetize the participant base?" - ie USRowing's forever go to play book.
The only question they are only asking is "how do we monetize the fan base?" If you are focusing on the fan it means you are looking for ways to offer real value as a sport that the fans will show up and pay for. And if you are doing that then by default you are providing a better experience for your participants. You are making the sport cool - and that is what will attract athletes of all races.
15 years ago USRowing was way ahead of any women's professional sports team in value. Now there are teams worth $250 million. We keep falling behind. This job might indicate a welcome pivot in thinking. Of course, I might be completely wrong because that word salad job description never mentions anything about supporting a fan base once.
This sport will never grow itself with better excel spreadsheets. It will never grow itself by constantly screaming DEI.
Rowing will only grow when it is seen as much cooler than it currently is. That is going to take transformational thinking.
If I were looking to hire someone for this role I would be looking for someone succeeding in professional women's sport and probably soccer. The questions they are focusing on are not "how do we monetize the participant base?" - ie USRowing's forever go to play book.
The only question they are only asking is "how do we monetize the fan base?" If you are focusing on the fan it means you are looking for ways to offer real value as a sport that the fans will show up and pay for. And if you are doing that then by default you are providing a better experience for your participants. You are making the sport cool - and that is what will attract athletes of all races.
15 years ago USRowing was way ahead of any women's professional sports team in value. Now there are teams worth $250 million. We keep falling behind. This job might indicate a welcome pivot in thinking. Of course, I might be completely wrong because that word salad job description never mentions anything about supporting a fan base once.
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I'd love to see that data because I find it hard to beleive USRowing has ever been worth much of anything compared to any other sport.
I'm all for growing the sport of rowing. But let's not kid oursleves, it will never be soccer, football, basketball, or any other major sport. And that's okay.
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Nah. It's going to take a lot of ground work by individual clubs to attract more members, teach more LTR courses, hire better coaches, build stronger communities, etc. That's how we get more people involved. USRowing needs to facilitate this. Ten steps to build a club. Centralized database of coaches looking for new positions, with geographic preference. Equipment sales, sharing, transport, etc. Literally just make life easier for clubs and make it easier to start a club. (This was close to the RowAmerica model, I know. I wish that concept had worked.) Now that's a value-add for clubs and a reason to be a USRowing member organization.
Media content of racing via social media is important too -- the Overnght stuff seems shortsighted to me. Let people share rowing with their friends.
And then also keep the HP mandate and field a national team we can all be proud of. Attract people to the water through Olympic publicity.
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RI has a glitch in quoting it seems. I never said any of that in Fullmetal's post.
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That was weird. I saw the whole post quoted, and then when I went to look at the post with the edit button, things resolved themselves.
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[That was weird. I saw the whole post quoted, and then when I went to look at the post with the edit button, things resolved themselve/quote]
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What you are suggesting is continuing with more of the same bottoms up fleece the participant approach and just hoping this time it somehow works. It won't. It won't.fullmetal wrote: ↑Wed Jan 29, 2025 8:23 pmNah. It's going to take a lot of ground work by individual clubs to attract more members, teach more LTR courses, hire better coaches, build stronger communities, etc. That's how we get more people involved. USRowing needs to facilitate this. Ten steps to build a club. Centralized database of coaches looking for new positions, with geographic preference. Equipment sales, sharing, transport, etc. Literally just make life easier for clubs and make it easier to start a club. (This was close to the RowAmerica model, I know. I wish that concept had worked.) Now that's a value-add for clubs and a reason to be a USRowing member organization.
The very reason that there is only a small pool of applicants interested in the national team is the same reason the sport is small and if you look outside of the north east/mid Atlantic region you are lucky if you can find a state with more than 1 or 2 scholastic programs. Those same states each have literally hundreds of scholastic football, basketball, cheerleading, cross country, soccer, track and field, wrestling, you name it they have it sports programs. They don't have rowing because why would they even think of it? The sport hits a TV screen for 6 minutes once every four years and this year it was largely behind the Peacock TV paywall.
The sport needs a top down approach that highlights the national team racing here in the US against foreign competition. Forget shitty world cups. A USA V GB rivalry post Olympic and pre Olympic years would be a good start. Incorporate it into Youth Nationals and some kids might actually be inspired by it.
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Respectfully, I disagree. The reason so few people turn out for national team competition is because of a variety of factors. we have literally tens of thousands of rowers in the collegiate US, but once they graduate, how many actually continue rowing out of college? I'd be shocked if it was even 10% of that number.
College costs are so high that it's required that students go into debt to finance their education. So immediately after college, they have debt payments that NEED to be paid, and that means prioritizing employment above all else.
Additionally, so many collegiate athletes burn out during college, and there's no nationwide feeder system for the NT. There's no nationwide development infrastructure. There's not even a lot of rowing clubs that would help subsidize athletes training for NT competition. Again, because of dollars.
COLA, plus debt, plus lack of infrastructure to continue training after college = the majority of potential athletes are lost, very often permanently, and MAYBE they'll return in their 40s or 50s once they've got an established career and family. MAYBE.
USRowing is not able to full-time fund a NT, because that requires actually paying athletes money to spend their time training. It has to be a full-time job pay because these days, training requires full-time effort. you can't just pull down a nice paying part-time job at Home Depot and expect to pay off your college debt, rent a studio in ANY city, and eat enough calories to be able to compete, much less afford a car, gas, etc.
And if you expect potential athletes to not only sacrifice their career but also live like paupers and monks to do it, that's just not realistic.
The days of folks being able to pay for a year of college cash-in-hand over a summer's work are looooong gone. The days of being able to work part time and pay for all costs of living are loooong gone. The days of being able to just walk into a building and come out with a job are loooooong gone. As much as it sucks, and as much as this is absolutely not a sustainable path, we're all stuck in the shitty part before it completely breaks.
College costs are so high that it's required that students go into debt to finance their education. So immediately after college, they have debt payments that NEED to be paid, and that means prioritizing employment above all else.
Additionally, so many collegiate athletes burn out during college, and there's no nationwide feeder system for the NT. There's no nationwide development infrastructure. There's not even a lot of rowing clubs that would help subsidize athletes training for NT competition. Again, because of dollars.
COLA, plus debt, plus lack of infrastructure to continue training after college = the majority of potential athletes are lost, very often permanently, and MAYBE they'll return in their 40s or 50s once they've got an established career and family. MAYBE.
USRowing is not able to full-time fund a NT, because that requires actually paying athletes money to spend their time training. It has to be a full-time job pay because these days, training requires full-time effort. you can't just pull down a nice paying part-time job at Home Depot and expect to pay off your college debt, rent a studio in ANY city, and eat enough calories to be able to compete, much less afford a car, gas, etc.
And if you expect potential athletes to not only sacrifice their career but also live like paupers and monks to do it, that's just not realistic.
The days of folks being able to pay for a year of college cash-in-hand over a summer's work are looooong gone. The days of being able to work part time and pay for all costs of living are loooong gone. The days of being able to just walk into a building and come out with a job are loooooong gone. As much as it sucks, and as much as this is absolutely not a sustainable path, we're all stuck in the shitty part before it completely breaks.
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Honest question…
do we realistically think there is a chance of rowing achieving the success of the sports that have professional leagues? (we’re talking a scholastic participation of hundred of thousands of kids vs 10s of thousands - rowing is on par with water polo in high school numbers)
or should we be looking to create efficiency in what we have? you know, quality over quantity?
i always love to point out that the population of the Philadelphia metro area is quite similar to the population of New Zealand…. i, for one, do not believe participation numbers are the crux of the issue.
do we realistically think there is a chance of rowing achieving the success of the sports that have professional leagues? (we’re talking a scholastic participation of hundred of thousands of kids vs 10s of thousands - rowing is on par with water polo in high school numbers)
or should we be looking to create efficiency in what we have? you know, quality over quantity?
i always love to point out that the population of the Philadelphia metro area is quite similar to the population of New Zealand…. i, for one, do not believe participation numbers are the crux of the issue.