Description
Do you make sports events spectacular? Do you expect the unexpected? Are you always one step ahead?
The City of Edmonton is looking for someone who thinks "outside the box" to join the Kinsmen Sports Centre Team as a Special Events Coordinator.
Your main focus will be to work with event partners to plan and implement local, provincial, national and international sports events at the Kinsmen Sports Centre. You will work with sports club volunteers to ensure that aquatic and field house events are the best that they can be, from pre-planning to final evaluation. This is a unique, hands-on role for someone who is looking to provide top quality sports events that benefit Edmontonians and their guests from around the world. If you think this position is for you, make a difference and apply today!
What you will do?
- Plan, coordinate, implement, monitor and evaluate Kinsmen Sports Centre events according to facility special event guiding principles and in conjunction with facility operations and bookings staff
- Support ongoing research into best practice sports event management focusing on collaboration/partnership ventures and revenue potential for events at the facility
- Participate in the orientation, training, supervision, evaluation and recognition of facility staff, event volunteers, contracted support staff and activity facilitators involved in special events
- Monitor customer usage patterns, trends and feedback of service users
- Prepare and distribute event planning and preparation documents such as event briefing sheets, program and fee proposals, critical path, budget tracking, activity procedures and letters of agreement
- Provide comprehensive evaluation reports for all events and strategic recommendations to the facility staff team related to the evolution of Special Events at the facility
- Negotiate fees and performance expectations/guidelines for contracted events support staff and/or groups (i.e. timing systems support, event parking groups, community and partner groups, etc)
- Actively contribute to and support facility, section, branch and department initiatives
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