# Commonwealth Sport hiring senior staff ahead of Glasgow confirmation

*By Simon | October 9, 2024*

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## 󠀁[Commonwealth Sport hiring senior staff ahead of Glasgow confirmation](https://globalkeirin.com/2024/10/commonwealth-sport-hiring-senior-staff-ahead-of-glasgow-confirmation/)󠁿

9 October 2024

We still await formal confirmation that Glasgow will host the Commonwealth Games
in 2026 – but with so little time to prepare, organisers are moving quickly to
hire the senior personnel required to deliver the slimmed-down event.

Somewhat quietly last week, the Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games Organising
Company posted a series of
[job adverts](https://www.linkedin.com/company/commonwealth-sport/jobs/) on
LinkedIn.

They are hiring for a Chief Executive Officer, Chief Operating Officer, Chief
Information Officer, Chief Marketing & Communications Officer, and Chief Finance
& Corporate Services Officer.

‘We are actively recruiting into (these key roles) in readiness of Scotland
being formally awarded the 2026 Commonwealth Games,’ each advert states.

‘It will be the biggest sporting and cultural event to be held in Scotland in
the last decade,’ they declare – referring, of course, to the last time Glasgow
hosted the Games, back in 2014.

Salary and benefits are described only as ‘competitive’.

Recruitment consultants Livingston James are also
[seeking](https://www.ljg-jobs.com/glasgow-2026-commonwealth-games) candidates
for Non-Executive Board Director, ‘contributing to the strategic direction,
financial stewardship, and risk management of the 2026 Games Organising
Company’. These positions will be ‘non-renumerated although reasonable expenses
will be reimbursed’.

### Scarce details

Details about the Games themselves still remain scarce.

There has been no confirmation of the 10 sports which will feature, although
most speculation takes it for granted that track cycling will make the cut,
given the availability of a world-class velodrome already in the city, and the
strong prospect of medals for the host nation.

Even the dates for the Games are still up in the air. Organisers of the
abandoned plans to host in Melbourne had reserved March 17-29; dates which make
more sense in the southern hemisphere’s late summer, rather than the end of a
Scottish winter.

In a recent newspaper column, UK sports administrator Ed Warner
[observed](https://www.cityam.com/ed-warner-my-10-sports-for-a-slimmed-down-commonwealth-games/)
that timing would be particularly challenging. ‘The men’s football World Cup in
North America runs from mid-June to mid-July in 2026. Birmingham will host the
European Athletics Championships in early August.

‘If organisers want to coincide with the Scottish school holidays then they
either need to gamble on an Easter event, live in football’s shadow or ask track
and field stars to compete in back-to-back championships. None ideal.’

Commonwealth heads of government will meet for their biennial
[summit](https://thecommonwealth.org/chogm) in Samoa from 21-26 October; and it
seems reasonable to expect that Games organisers would want to have details
confirmed before then.

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