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DEPARTMENT: Special Events / Leisure Services
EEO Category: Professional
FLSA Status: Non Exempt
This job posting emphasizes the need for candidates to have a demonstrated history of successful event management, demonstrated supervisory experience, and strong budget management skills. Candidates that do not meet the requirements above, need not apply.
This position will require day, night and weekend availability. During the months of October - January, this position will require evening/night and weekend work for Harbor Lights.
Position Overview
The Special Events Coordinator is responsible for planning, organizing, and managing all city-sponsored events, ensuring smooth operations and client satisfaction. This role includes overseeing event coordination, providing technical support, and managing approximately ninety seasonal employees for the Harbor Lights Winter Festival. The coordinator is also in charge of handling permits and contracts for private and public events on city property and ensuring all necessary processes are completed efficiently. This position reports to the Assistant Director of Leisure Services and manages the Special Events Administrative Coordinator and Event Technicians.
Essential Job Functions
Essential duties and functions, pursuant to the American with Disabilities Act, may include the following. Other related duties maybe assigned.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
Must possess required knowledge, skills, abilities and experience and be able to explain and demonstrate, with or without reasonable accommodations, that the essential functions of the job can be performed.
Education and Experience
Associate’s or Bachelor’s degree in marketing, public relations, special events, business, or a related field is preferred. 2-4 years of experience in project management or event planning, with a proven track record of successful event management.
A combination of experience and education may be accepted. Experience may be substituted for education if experience is 10 or more years directly related to supervisory duties, at least 5 years of budget management duties and at least 5 years of independently managing contracts and vendors.
Required Licenses or Certificates
Must possess a valid driver’s license.
Physical Demands and Working Conditions
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Physical requirements include occasional lifting/carrying of 10 pounds; visual acuity, speech and hearing; hand and eye coordination and manual dexterity necessary to operate a computer keyboard and basic office equipment. Subject to sitting, standing, reaching, walking, twisting and kneeling to perform the essential functions. Working conditions are both indoors and outdoors.
Full Time
Wholesale
$41k-57k (estimate)
07/24/2024
08/05/2024
gulfport-ms.gov
Gulfport, MS
100 - 200
Wholesale
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