Birmingham 2022 launches recruitment drive for thousands of jobs
Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games is urging people to register their interest in the tens of thousands job opportunities that will become available between now and the Games.
The recruitment drive has been launched to encourage people to register their interest in the opportunity to be a part of the biggest event ever to take place in the West Midlands.
To ensure Birmingham 2022 is a success, a huge workforce of people will be needed. More than 20,000 roles are available with contractors, with an additional 600 job opportunities during the Games within the Birmingham 2022 organising committee itself.
A range of jobs are available, lasting from three months to three weeks, with roles in security, stewarding, catering, cleaning, retail and logistics. The majority of roles available don’t need formal experience or qualifications, and full training will be provided.
Birmingham 2022 is working with the Jobs and Skills Academy, launched by the West Midlands Combined Authority, to provide training for and to improve the skills of local people for these roles.
The Jobs and Skills Academy is investing £5m to train unemployed residents to take advantage of Games time roles and have already, over the last 12 months, trained more than 4000 unemployed people to help build the talent pool in the workforce.
The Jobs and Skills Academy has secured a total of £5.2m from European Social Fund (ESF) and the National Lottery to support and offering individualised support to 3,500 people to access Games opportunities – providing the wrap around support they need to make successful applications and transitions.
Applicants must be aged 18 or above by 1 April 2022 and should register their interest at www.birmingham2022.com/jobs to find out more.
The Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games will see around 4,500 athletes from 72 nations and territories compete in 19 sports and eight para-sports across 14 competition venues from 28 July until 8 August 2022. It is expected to attract more than one million spectators to the city and have a global TV audience of 1.5 billion.
