LA28 does not provide relocation assistance.
The Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games will be hosted in Los Angeles, California in 2028, returning to the United States for the first time in over 30 years. 2028 will be the first time LA hosts the Paralympic Games, creating an opportunity to expand awareness, understanding and inclusion of people with disabilities.
LA28, the organizers for the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Los Angeles, is on a mission to create an unparalleled Games experience for athletes, fans, partners, our community and our people. Our vision is to collectively create what’s next through sport, community and the power of our differences.
The 2028 Olympics and Paralympics will represent LA and leverage the strength of our community’s uniqueness and creativity as we collectively work to design a Games that we all want to be a part of. We do this by focusing on people and by inviting everyone into the story of the LA28 Games.
The LA28 organizing committee is an independent, non-profit organization that is privately funded and governed by a board of directors.
Program
The LA28 Olympian/Paralympian Athlete Fellowship Program is a year-long opportunity featuring two six-month rotations across LA28’s operational teams. Successful candidates will complete one rotation from January to June 2026 and another from July to December 2026. Assignments will be determined based on interviews and the applicant pool. Fellows will gain valuable work experience, expand their networks, and provide feedback throughout the program.
Since its launch in 2021, the program has supported 39 participants and graduates. These Athlete Fellows have represented 16 countries and competed in 21 sports, collectively earning 27 Olympic and Paralympic medals across 17 editions of the Games.
Salary and Benefits
Fellows will receive a salary and benefits for their one-year commitment: $67,000.00
Candidate Profile
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Energy
The Energy functional area is part of LA28’s core team. We are responsible for the end-to-end delivery of power to all functional areas within Games venues and facilities. Energy is a service provider within the OCOG, but it also receives services from other areas in order to deliver and operate successfully (Logistics, Accreditation, Technology and Transport, etc.). Note that the IOC considers the OCOG Energy functional area as the only responsible entity for delivery of power to Games’ operational locations, supporting Games’ operations. Energy can be broken down into three tiers.
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Event Delivery
The Event Delivery portfolio is an integration of critical functions of Event & Venue Management (EVM), Sport (SPT) and Venue Infrastructure (VNI), which are critical functional areas for the integrated operational planning for the Games. The Event Delivery portfolio is responsible for cross functional planning and integration not only with these FAs but across the entire organization as it relates to operational planning.
This includes leading the integrated event operational planning at the venue level for all competition and major non-competition venues. The design, procurement and delivery of all the temporary infrastructure and most importantly the delivery of the field-of-play and sport requirements for the athletes.
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National Olympic and Paralympic Committee Services & Relations
National Olympic and Paralympic Committee Services & Relations (NCS) serves and supports the 206 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) and 183 National Paralympic Committees (NPCs) who will bring their athletes and team officials to Los Angeles in 2028. NOCs, like Team USA, Team Japan, and Team Brazil or NPCs like Team Australia, Team Aruba, and Team GB have already begun preparing their operations to ensure their athletes have what they need to deliver their best performances on the world’s stage in less than three years!
As a truly international and cross-functional team, NCS serves as a vital bridge —facilitating communication, education, and collaboration between LA28 and the NOCs/NPCs throughout the Games life cycle. From hosting NOC/NPC visits and delivering strategic seminars to shaping athlete Games service levels across all LA28 functional areas, NCS plays a central role in pre-Games planning and preparation for both internal and external Games stakeholders.
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Sport: Competition Management
LA28’s Sport Competition Management team is responsible for insuring all Olympic and Paralympic sports are delivered within International Federation (IF) requirements while providing world-class services that enable athletes to perform at their best. Sport Competition Management sits within Games Delivery and collaborates internally across departments (e.g., Venue Management, Venue Infrastructure, Transportation, Ticketing) and externally with key stakeholders (ex: IOC/IPC, IFs, Olympic Broadcast Services) to advance planning on deliverables such as venue design, competition schedule, and technical requirements.
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Sport: Planning And Operations
LA28’s Sport Planning and Operations team oversees the central planning for all Olympic and Paralympic sports, ensuring consistency throughout the program across service levels, workforce, and delivery plans. Sport Planning and Operations sits within Games Delivery and collaborates internally across departments (e.g., National Committee Services (NCS), Accommodations, Legal, Finance, Programs and Planning) and externally with key stakeholders (ex: IOC/IPC, NGBs, Weather Services) to advance functional planning, policies, procedures, and Games-time operations.
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Venue Infrastructure
The Venue Infrastructure (VNI) team is responsible for ensuring on-time and on-budget delivery of all venue infrastructure and overlay for the staging of the LA28 Olympic and Paralympic Games – creating the optimal environment for athlete performance, fan engagement, and operational efficiency.
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Villages Management
Villages Management (VIL) is responsible for the planning, management, and operation of the Olympic and Paralympic Village as well as Satellite Villages. Villages Management works alongside both external partners (such as UCLA) and a wide range of other internal functional areas with the primary goal to deliver the best Village experience for all athletes, team officials, and stakeholders.
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Accommodation
At Games time, the Accommodation (ACM) Functional Area serves as the central coordinator for all Olympic and Paralympic Games stakeholder accommodations. Its mission is to provide a seamless end-to-end lodging experience that enables each client group to perform their role effectively, while meeting service level expectations and honoring budget and contractual commitments. In practice, this means securing, managing, and operating accommodations for a wide range of stakeholder groups, ensuring equal quality of service for both the Olympic and Paralympic events. Across all these groups, ACM’s Games-time scope is truly end-to-end. From the moment stakeholders request their rooms through their stay and departure, the Accommodation FA orchestrates the entire journey to be smooth and satisfactory. In order to manage an accommodations load of approximately 65,000 rooms (over 1,000,000 room nights) across the Olympic and Paralympic Games, ACM will undergo a phased workforce expansion from mid-2025 through the 2028 Games. This staffing strategy leverages a small core of LA28 full-time employees (FTEs) supplemented by short-term contractors and volunteers, aligning growth with the department’s three functional pillars—Stakeholder Relations, University Housing (Media & Workforce), and Operations/Systems/Finance—to ensure each area is adequately staffed ahead of critical operational milestones.
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Medical Operations
The Medical Operations rotation offers fellows the opportunity to engage in a dynamic environment dedicated to delivering excellence in health care services for all Olympic and Paralympic stakeholders. Fellows will experience collaborative teamwork across the Organizing Committee’s departments and the wider health care community, contributing to optimized medical services that balance quality care with cost-efficient Games operations. Additionally, this rotation highlights meaningful community involvement throughout all phases of Games delivery, providing a holistic perspective on the impact of medical operations in a global sporting event.
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Transportation
The LA28 Transportation department oversees all the planning and delivery of transportation elements of the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games. We aim to deliver a seamless system that serves all athletes, stakeholders, spectators, and workforce, while keeping the LA region moving.
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Government Affairs
The Government Affairs (GOV) team advocates for policies to enable a successful 2028 Games through Federal, State, and Local Governments. Stakeholders range from the City of Los Angeles Recreation and Parks Department to U.S. Embassies around the world. The team serves the entire LA28 organization by working to secure Federal, State, and local resources and builds partnerships to ensure we leave a positive legacy for Los Angeles, the region, and beyond. In 2025 the Government Relations team launched National Engagement efforts to drive support for the Games across the United States.
The fellow will assist the GOV team with the overall development and implementation of LA28’s national engagement projects, including the Olympic & Paralympic Torch Relays and additional Games activations outside of California. They will be responsible for helping design and drive strategies and initiatives that enhance our relationships, secure necessary support, and allow us to engage and create a sense of excitement and anticipation for the Games across all 50 states.
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Impact & Legacy and Community Relations
Impact & Legacy (IML) and Community Relations are sub-functions of External Affairs which are responsible for developing and maintaining LA28’s reputation and fostering deep relationships with key external stakeholders, while leveraging the convening power of the Games to leave a positive impact on people and communities in the Los Angeles region.
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Accessibility
The Accessibility Functional Area for LA28 Olympic and Paralympic Organizing Committee is responsible for ensuring that all aspects of the Games are inclusive and accessible to athletes, spectators, workforce, and other major stakeholders with various abilities, by embedding accessibility into every stage of planning, delivery, and legacy. This includes designing accessible venues, transportation, and digital platforms; providing assistive services; training staff and volunteers; and collaborating with experts and advocacy groups. During Games time, the focus shifts to operational readiness, ensuring seamless mobility, inclusive guest experiences, and accessible emergency protocols. Beyond the Games, the Accessibility FA drives long-term improvements in urban infrastructure, policy, and inclusive sports participation, leaving a lasting legacy of accessibility in the host city and future events.
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Games & Delivery: Project Management and Operational Planning
The Planning & Programs team manages the LA28 consolidated schedule, which is the single source of truth for what work needs to be done to deliver the Games. The team acts as a hub for all program management support to LA28 executives, departments, teams, functional areas and individuals to help them structure their work to drive outcomes necessary to deliver the Games. They deliver unambiguous reporting on the organization’s progress against their plans and owns systems to track risks, issues, and cross functional scheduling impacts. They maintain an open line of communications with the IOC and IPC to synchronize change controls and schedule updates. The Planning & Programs Team is service oriented and people facing as they work with every team across the organization. They also dive deep into data, systems, and processes.
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Sustainability
The Sustainability team is responsible for working across the organization to deliver a more environmentally sustainable Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2028. The team is leading a collaborative effort to develop and execute LA28’s sustainability strategy, which accounts for operational programs and initiatives that help reduce the Games’ footprint across areas including carbon, energy, water, and waste. This function also works closely with LA28’s commercial and community partners to identify and activate environmental projects throughout the greater LA region that will help leave a lasting community impact leading up to and after the Games.
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Business Integration
The Business Integration (BI) team acts as the central hub connecting Commercial Partnerships with our internal functional areas. As experts in budget and supply, we are the main liaisons for LA28's functional areas, partners to the Sales team, and allies to the Finance team. Our team is focused on understanding partner capabilities, conducting in-depth category analysis, and ensuring quality control across all integrations.
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Commercial Hospitality
The Commercial Hospitality team is committed to redefining the Olympic and Paralympic Games hospitality experience by creating premium, revenue-generating offerings for stakeholders and fans. In collaboration with On Location, LA28’s Official Hospitality Provider, the team drives a commercial hospitality premium strategy that maximizes asset value, enhances guest experiences, and ensures revenue optimization across all touchpoints.
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Food & Beverage
Food & Beverage (FNB) will facilitate the feeding of stakeholders across all competition and non-competition venues, providing authentically prepared nourishment that meets a wide variety of ethical, cultural, religious, allergen, and dietary needs while providing a platform for communities hosting LA28 venues to tell their stories through integration of their diverse food, beverage, culture, and hyper-local businesses.
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Partnership Marketing
On behalf of LA28, USOPC, and the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Properties (USOPP), the Partnership Marketing (PM) team acts as the steward of all contractual rights and benefits afforded to our Commercial Partners. PM is a collective of internationally experienced, deeply passionate marketers dedicated to maintaining a keen focus across all sponsorship elements of the Olympic and Paralympic Movements in the U.S. Designed from a management consulting model, PM strives to unlock exceptional value across our internal enterprise, as well as for each sponsor they serve.
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Digital Engagement & Marketing
The Digital Engagement and Marketing (DIG) team drives marketing and brand engagement efforts for LA28, leveraging digital platforms such as social media, website, email and content development to connect with and inspire fans. By collaborating across internal departments and engaging directly with key audiences—athletes, fans, communities, and partners—the DIG team creates compelling stories and promotional campaigns to drive excitement for the Games. Their work spans a variety of key channels, including Instagram, TikTok, X (formerly Twitter), YouTube, Facebook, LA28.org, email, website, and advertising. Newly added, LA28’s DIG team also has a new sub-function, Editorial Services, which is a team that focuses on developing written publications to inform and engage with external stakeholders such IOC, IPC, NOC, NPC, and the larger Olympic and Paralympic family.
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Live Sites + Events & Engagement
The Live Sites & Venue Experiences team is responsible for the planning & execution of LA28’s fan and spectator experiences both on- and off-premises during the LA28 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Live Sites are an extension of the Games’ competitive events, sharing the spirit of the Olympics and Paralympics with locals and visitors alike.
The LA28 Events Team manages and executes internal meetings and events in support of all departments at LA28 as well as Team USA Partner-related meetings and events for the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Properties (USOPP). This includes event site selection, budgeting, timelines, food & beverage, audio-visual, décor/signage, look and feel, hotel room blocks, transport, and all key logistics and operational elements from concept to execution.
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Communications
The Communications team leads storytelling for the organization, sharing LA28's remarkable journey and protecting the reputation of the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games. You’ll work across all LA28 departments—from marketing and brand, community impact and government relations, sport and athlete relations, and Games planning and delivery—gaining exposure to a variety of high-profile projects and cross-functional workstreams. This is a fast-paced environment where every week offers something different. Your storytelling skills will help engage millions, whether you’re crafting announcements that make headlines, supporting initiatives with lasting social impact, or collaborating with teams to engage athlete communities, fans, or partners from around the globe. Please consider your cover letter as a writing sample.
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Legal & Rights Protection
Our team works with every functional area here at LA28 to provide advice on all matters affecting LA28’s legal rights and obligations. This includes protecting the valuable Olympic and Paralympic brand, helping bring to life brand and marketing activations, working on commercial sponsorship and licensing agreements, negotiating Games venue and hotel agreements, supporting community events, and more.
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Paralympic Strategy
The Paralympic Strategy team is the face of the Paralympic Games at LA28! The team leads LA28’s efforts to fully align the Paralympic Games into every aspect of planning, operations, and delivery. Serving as the bridge between the International Paralympic Committee (IPC), the USOPC, and internal functional areas, the department ensures that the unique needs of Paralympic athletes, fans, and stakeholders are embedded in decision-making. Through cross-functional coordination, accessibility-driven planning, and strategic oversight, the team champions a cohesive, inclusive, and world-class Paralympic Games experience.
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People Team (HR): The Talent, Workforce & Volunteer
The Talent, Workforce & Volunteer team at LA28 is responsible for building and scaling a world-class workforce to deliver the Olympic and Paralympic Games. We focus on workforce planning, recruitment, talent management, organizational design, and Games-time readiness, ensuring the right people are in the right roles at the right time to support seamless operations. As part of this work, the Volunteer Program team leads the co-creation of a world-class volunteer experience, mobilizing and engaging more than 50,000 volunteers for the successful delivery of the Games while also building a pre-Games program that sustains the legacy of LA28 volunteering beyond the Games.
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Technology
Technology enables the delivery and operations of virtually all aspects of successful Olympic and Paralympic Games. LA28’s Technology department works to support and implement a broad range of technologies across the organization. The Technology team delivers services, systems and operations in support of the Organizing Committee’s business needs and delivers specific Games planning services to various stakeholders.
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The annual base salary range for this position is $67,000.00.
LA28 does not provide relocation assistance.
LA28 is committed to operating fair and unbiased recruitment procedures allowing all applicants an equal opportunity for employment, free from discrimination on the basis of religion, race, sex, age, sexual orientation, disability, color, ethnic or national origin, or any other classification as may be protected by applicable law. We strive to build a team that is diverse, inclusive and encourages qualified candidates of all backgrounds, perspectives, and identities to apply. We will consider all qualified candidates with criminal histories in a manner consistent with local law. We assess applications based on relevant skills, education, and experience a candidate can add to our team.
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