Adelaide Oval revamp creates 500 new jobs Adelaide Oval corporate chef James Lawrie with Emily Stephens (right) and her sister Melissa, who have applied for jobs at the Adelaide Oval. MORE than 500 new Adelaide Oval jobs will be advertised from Monday, while a further 700 will be filled largely by former AAMI Stadium and SACA workers before the first AFL game next year. Chefs, baristas and supervisors are among the jobs on offer, as the Oval prepares to unveil its $535 million redevelopment for the Ashes in December and the first AFL game next year. It comes as hospitality industry leaders warn the expanded Adelaide Convention Centre, function rooms in the revamped Oval and new city hotels risk becoming white elephants unless the state invests more to attract major conventions. Adelaide Oval Stadium Management Authority chief executive Andrew Daniels said 1200 new jobs would be created at the oval by April. Of the 1200 jobs, about 700 are slated for existing South Australian National Football League (SANFL) and South Australian Cricket Association (SACA) staff. See a time lapse video of construction at Adelaide Oval. "Adelaide Oval will become South Australia's largest single-site employer of food and beverage staff," Mr Daniels said. It's going to be an extremely busy and high-pressure environment, and tremendously exciting. The new casual and part-time employees will start between October and February and more people will be employed from next year. Mr Daniels said the new Adelaide Oval was a year-round venue, not seasonal. Watch as the Adelaide Oval Bradman stand being demolished as part of the new development. Adelaide Oval will host more than 40 days of major sporting events each year from next year, as well as corporate entertainment, concerts and tourism events. The not-for-profit Adelaide Convention Bureau, which secures conventions, believes the city's growing event capacity presents the chance for economic payoff. An artist's impression of the new-look Adelaide Oval. But the bureau, hoteliers and restaurants have warned there is also the risk of idle venues and an oversupply of accommodation. "We require more resources to leverage that great infrastructure investment," the bureau's chief executive Damien Kitto said. There's all this extra supply coming on but where's the demand? Cities around the world make offers of hundreds of thousands of dollars to attract conferences. The bureau said: THE $3 million in government funds for bids over the past five years had secured events worth $150 million. CONFERENCE delegates spend $632 a day on hotels, restaurants, shopping, tours and delegate fees, compared with $179 for leisure tourists. MOST of the benefit is in the CBD. ADELAIDE attracted 139 conventions worth $103 million in economic activity in 2012-13, up from $90 million the previous year. That rise in economic return came despite government cutbacks to the bureau's operating budget. "It runs off the sniff of an oily rag," Mr Kitto said. Restaurant and Catering SA chief executive Sally Neville said: "Other states have bid funds that buy their way into events and leave us way behind." Melissa Stephens, who worked at AAMI Stadium, has applied for casual work at Adelaide Oval. "It's going to be like a new beginning at Adelaide Oval and I think it will be very exciting to be a part of that," Ms Stephens said. Tourism Minister Leon Bignell said the Government's investment in major projects made Adelaide a more attractive host city. Opposition tourism spokesman David Ridgway said a Liberal government would have a dedicated bid fund for the bureau to use, rather than the "cumbersome" system of making it apply to government agencies to attract each event. For more information and for the positions available at Adelaide Oval, visit aojobs.pinnacle people.com.au