Golden Opportunities -- Business Never Stops

This week's Golden Opportunities:

1. Featured Jobs - World Anti-Doping Agency, USA Rugby

2. Conferences -

3. Olympian Efforts -

4. Awards -

5.Programs -

6.Volunteers -

7. Tickets -

8. Media Matters - 2015 SEA Games App

9.Proposals -

10. Scholarships -

11. Contests -

12.Merchandise -

13. Tender Opportunities -

Send us your Golden Opportunities to:goldenopps@aroundtherings.com. Business never stops!

Featured:

World Anti-Doping Agency

Medical Manager

Location: Montreal, Canada

Closing Date: June 14, 2015

The Medical Manager will assist the Medical Director primarily on aspects relating to Therapeutic Use Exemptions (TUEs), including but not limited to monitoring, updates and improvements.

USA Rugby

Head coach AIG Men's Junior All-Americans

Open until: June 5, 2015

The MJAA head coach will report to Alex Magleby, USA Rugby director of performance, in matters related to staffing, scouting, and coaching, as well as the planning and execution of the high performance calendar.

Conferences:

Stadium Business Summit: June 9-11

Future Sporting Infrastructure Summit: Sept. 14-16

IPC VISTA Conference: Oct. 7-10

Smart Cities & Sports Summit: Oct. 12-14

TAFISA World Congress: Oct. 14-18

International Health & Wealth Conference: Oct. 15-17

City Events: Nov. 17-18

Olympian Efforts:

Generations for Peace

For those who frequent Amazon.com, select Generations For Peace as your preferred charity in the AmazonSmile program, and Amazon will donate a percentage of your total purchase cost to GFP.

Awards:

Programs:

IOC Athlete Learning Gateway

The IOC is launching a free, online education service aimed specifically at Olympians, other elite athletes and their coaches.

The new service, called "The IOC Athlete Learning Gateway", will go live on 28 May during the 7th IOC Athlete Career Program Forum in Lima, Peru.

Rio 2016 Registering Suppliers

The Rio 2016 Organizing Committee is looking for suppliers for itsfurniture, textile, chemical, pharmaceutical and IT sectors.Rio 2016 will invest $3 billion in purchases for the organization and holding of events. Of this total, 10% will be allocated to the negotiations with the micro and small enterprises. The deadline for interested suppliers to apply is the end of March.

Paralympic Sport Club Development Program

U.S. Paralympics, a division of the United States Olympic Committee, today launched the Paralympic Sport Club Development Program, a new initiative designed to support grassroots organizations that are committed to providing sustainable Paralympic sports programming that strengthens the athlete pipeline to the U.S. Paralympic Team. Paralympic Sport Clubs that participate in the three-level program will receive recognition and awards designed to help organizations honor achievements and further pursue excellence within the Paralympic Movement.

Afghanistan Water Polo: Peace Through Sport

Afghanistan Water Polo is dedicated to the development and promotion of asuccessful national water polo program in Afghanistan, inspiring growth and the pursuit of domestic and international excellence. The organization ultimately hopes to provide opportunities for the people of Afghanistan to learn, grow, and compete, and to fight terrorism on a fundamental level by providing a healthy upbringing for children in the region.

Volunteers:

Tickets:

2015 USA Gymnastics Championships

Tickets for the 2015 USA Gymnastics Championships, the national championships for acrobatic gymnastics, rhythmic gymnastics, and trampoline, are now on sale. The five-day competition is scheduled for June 24 --28 at the Greensboro Coliseum Complex in Greenboro, North Carolina, and includes both Junior Olympic and elite levels and is one of the national championships held annually by USA Gymnastics.

Media Matters:

2015 Southeast Asian Games Application

The app for the 2015 SEA Games in Singapore is ready for download.

Proposals:

Scholarships:

Contests:

Merchandise:

USA Rugby

Fans of the USA Rugby Men's Eagles will have the opportunity to support the Eagles with the purchase of a spot on a player’s number to place his/her photo for the entirety of the Rugby World Cup. Each player’s jersey number will be a mosaic of supporters’ uploaded photos. Fans who purchase a spot on the uniform numbers will also have the opportunity to purchase a limited edition 2015 USA Rugby World Cup Jersey with his/her number that contains the uploaded photo.

Let the River Flow

Let the River Flow is a fictional children's book that teaches lessons about overcoming setbacks and that success is achieved by doing your best, written by United States gymnastics champion Vanessa Atler.

TSE Consulting Book

Developing a winning sports events strategy: A four-step approach for successful bidding and hosting:

• A book by TSE Consulting that provides public sector bodies with a shortcut to developing a winning approach for their investment in sports events. If you work in the public sector and are looking to develop a successful sports event strategy that brings benefits to your city, region or country then this book is for you.

Inside the Beijing Olympics

In the world we live in today, there are few secrets more darker, more magical and mysterious than the inner workings of the Chinese Government and Communist Party. No American is ever invited behind the curtain to sit and enjoy a lunch of dim sum with the Wizard of OZ; but now, in a new work by first-time author, Jeff Ruffolo, we are instantly transported into the inner workings of the greatest summer Olympic Games ever – the Games of the XXIX Olympiad in China.

Stop War, Start Tennis: Lessons of Life and Understanding from a Pakistani Tennis Player

Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi, Pakistans greatest tennis champion and highly regarded world humanitarian, announced today that his book is now available for sale as an e-book electronically on Kindle at Amazon.com

The Complete Encyclopedia of Football

Pulling together the many strands of football today is a daunting task - not least, where and when to start. Keir Radnedge, who has reported every World Cup since 1966, is probably better qualified than most. He has watched and analysed all the great teams and interviewed all the great players down the years. All that is distilled in The Complete Encyclopedia of Football, published by Carlton Books of London but translated and published widely around the world. What do pioneer Lord Kinnaird from the 19th century and today's superstar Lionel Messi have in common? This book brings them together.

Tender Opportunities:

PyeongChang 2018

In order to ensure transparency and objectivity for the participation, the POCOG Partnership programme is based on an opencompetitive tender method. The initial stage of sponsorship requires completing the tender for below under the followingguidelines.

We kindly ask all the prospective sponsors' active participation and support.

2017 Women's Rugby World Championships

Just months after a record-breaking Women’s Rugby World Cup in France, the tender process has now opened to host the event in 2017.

The tournament, which was won by England after a thrilling final in Paris last August, will move to 2017 to maximise synergy with the Olympic and Rugby World Cup Sevens cycles, allowing the world’s best female players to compete on rugby’s biggest stages. The event will return to a four-year cycle after 2017.

The tender process was ratified by World Rugby Council at its meeting in London last week.

Rio de Janeiro 2016

Procurement Portal of the Organizing Committee for Rio 2016

The portal will serve as the main channel of communication with supplier companies and has the potential to change the way of purchasing goods and services and become a legacy for national industry. The new tool will host the Games Demand for Goods and Services Plan, the Organising Committee’s purchase schedule until 2016, which will allow companies to plan ahead and also seek extra qualifications to meet the Olympic demands.

Sport and Development Opportunities: There are many job openings in sport and development including a Project Manager and Head of Communications with streetfootballworld. The International Council of Sport Science and Physical Education is seeking applications Manager Services. For all of the job listings, visitsportanddev.org.

Opportunities from Lausanne, Switzerland: View theIOC Job Opportunitiespage to search volunteer and full-time positions.

Opportunities from Bonn, Germany: View theIPC Job Opportunitiespage to search volunteer and full-time positions.

Opportunities from Gold Coast, Australia: View the2018 Commonwealth Gamespage to search for positions

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