Buoyed by goodwill over the expansion of their players relations staff to communicate between the USGA and professional golf tours, the USGA is looking for a “Jason Gore-like” person. The goal is to improve communications between the Far Hills-based staff and the organization’s 16-person Executive Committee.
Sources at ziprecruiter.com first spotted the job posting and shared with GeoffShackelford.com.
As always, I’ve copy and pasted here if or ever anyone takes the job:
From the money-losing USGA Handicap System to the annual cash-cow that is the U.S. Open, to modernizing the game’s Rules to a totally unappreciative audience of spoiled golfers, while supporting sustainable golf course management practices 51 weeks a year, the United States Golf Association promotes the health of a game that inspires, challenges, and rewards like nothing else can. Most of the time. If you have the leisure time and disposable income.
Are you looking to join a dynamic team that meets as much as eight times in a day to promote and protect the conservative spirit of golf?
The Executive Committee (XC) Partnership Builder is a front-line intermediary role position responsible for qualifying, cultivating, soliciting, massaging and sharing thoughts from the XC to USGA staff leadership so that the XC members are not encumbered by time-consuming small talk with staff.
Relationships will be cultivated by meeting with XC members at primarily southeastern and southwestern five-star resorts during winter before transitioning to northeastern clubs in summer. The individual will travel extensively while possibly getting to play the occasional round at a Golf Digest Top 100 course. (Caddie fees typically not expensible).
WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT:
• Manage a portfolio of 16 XC members with divergent individual needs spread throughout the country’s best neighborhoods and gated communities.
• In conjunction with the Chief People Officer and Deputy Chief of Staff, establish annual goals for visits, solicitations and filtering all ideas proposed, no matter how asinine.
• Develop strategies and prepare proposals—including written documentation—for accurate recording and acknowledgment of mostly dull ideas hatched from Sea Island to the Monterey Peninsula.
WHAT YOU BRING TO THE USGA:
• A minimum of a BA/BS degree with 5-7 years of experience as a front-line communicator, unless you were one of four former White House Communication Directors over the last two years.
• Retain demonstrated ability to create and cultivate relationships with a variety of inflated egos and sometimes out of touch individuals who prefer to converse only with those in a similar tax bracket.
• No prior experience in the golf industry necessary but if you do play golf, do not expect to get into Somerset Hills until the next Great Recession.
• Proven track record of recording ideas, nodding head in convincing fashion
• Strong working knowledge of America’s most storied vacation spots, with a keen ability to explain the difference between The Breakers and The Cloisters
• Positive attitude and the ability to display consistent initiative no matter how condescending the treatment is by an XC member
• The ability to travel up to 90% of the year in economy class or Main Cabin Extra/Premium Economy if status allows. Private jet travel forbidden.
• Strong working knowledge of fine wine, with an emphasis on American vintages.
• Strong working knowledge of America’s golf architects, with an ability to understand the difference between an A.W. Tillinghast Redan and a C.B. Macdonald Redan. Never say Rodan.
