What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sports Management Internship - Spring 2025 (In-person) position at Volo Sports?
Company Description
What’s Volo?
More than 300,000 users Coast to Coast leverage Volo to organize, meet, communicate and play within their community through fitness and social activities. Whether it's a performance sport like soccer, or a social activity like cornhole, Volo provides something real. Real interaction, real activity, real fun, and real impact.
Volo is a movement—for people and by people who want to connect more meaningfully with each other. We are a grassroots uprising, helping others actually see who they’re connecting with, and share experiences over the length of a season.
If you have a desire to make a difference through community and sports, Volo could be your next and final career destination. Come fly with us.
More than 300,000 users Coast to Coast leverage Volo to organize, meet, communicate and play within their community through fitness and social activities. Whether it's a performance sport like soccer, or a social activity like cornhole, Volo provides something real. Real interaction, real activity, real fun, and real impact.
Volo is a movement—for people and by people who want to connect more meaningfully with each other. We are a grassroots uprising, helping others actually see who they’re connecting with, and share experiences over the length of a season.
If you have a desire to make a difference through community and sports, Volo could be your next and final career destination. Come fly with us.
What’s This Internship All About?
As the Sports Management Intern, you will be working directly with our talented and knowledgeable team assisting with day to day league operations, including customer service, grassroots marketing and equipment management.
Training will include an overview of sales, business development, networking, operations and customer relations. Upon completion of the internship, it is our hope that the knowledge learned is one that provides great value and expertise towards future career endeavors in the sports industry, including the opportunity to be permanently hired from this position.
As the Sports Management Intern, you will be working directly with our talented and knowledgeable team assisting with day to day league operations, including customer service, grassroots marketing and equipment management.
Training will include an overview of sales, business development, networking, operations and customer relations. Upon completion of the internship, it is our hope that the knowledge learned is one that provides great value and expertise towards future career endeavors in the sports industry, including the opportunity to be permanently hired from this position.
More Than an Internship
- Unpaid Internship with College credit
- Opportunity to make money by hosting or refereeing leagues!
- Invaluable experience in sports management by leaders in the social sports industry
- Opportunity for full time position
- Free sports leagues & events
Proof We Are Awesome
- Ranked Among Inc-5000 Fastest Growing Companies
- Serving more than 20,000 kids in free youth programs
- Over 300,000 Adult Participants Nationwide
- 8 City markets & counting ...
INTERNSHIP PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES
Sports Operations
- Assist with game reports, customer service inquiries, scheduling and data entry
- Assist with league audits & evaluations
- Administrative and clerical support for all departments
- Sales calls to team captains to inform them of upcoming events and registration deadlines
- Inventory and upkeep of sports equipment and apparel
- Provide facility and field maintenance as needed
- Other league-day preparations, such as field setup/breakdown and supervision
- Onsite selling, marketing and player engagement
- Execute fundraising activities to support kids programs
- Encourage and maintain a quality experience throughout the league
- Make players meet & feel welcome
Qualifications
- Works well in a team atmosphere, and requires low supervision/direction
- Self-reliant and eager to take on any task
- Strong customer service skills
- Currently enrolled in college or recently graduated
- Punctual and professional, but embraces a "work hard, play hard" attitude
Ideal candidate
- Passion for sports and social activities
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Self-directed leader who takes initiative and a solutions-oriented approach to problem solving; demonstrates a willingness to learn and improve
- Comfortable with all types of clients and decision makers; able to put the customer first in order to best solve their problems
- Ability to commit to 20-25 hours/week beginning in March with availability through May
Additional Information
Volo is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer that proudly pursues and hires a diverse workforce. We do not make hiring or employment decisions on the basis of race, color, religion or religious belief, ethnic or national origin, nationality, sex, gender, gender-identity, sexual orientation, disability, age, military or veteran status, or any other basis protected by applicable local, state, or federal laws or company policy. We strive to create a healthy and safe workplace and we prohibit harassment of any kind.
