Downtown Event Coordinator

We know that a healthy and happy workforce is a thriving workforce, which is why we offer a comprehensive benefits package that supports quality work-life balance, including 32 days of paid annual leave to be used for holiday, personal, and/or sick days, health insurance options, employer-matched retirement, a City employee health clinic, a City employee day care center, wellness program, and an Employee Assistance Program. Of equal importance, we offer an opportunity to serve the community you love and live in. Our employees find their work rewarding and fulfilling, knowing that their day job makes a positive impact. 

• Plan, coordinate, produce, and manage Downtown sponsored Special Events including but not limited to music festivals, farmer's markets, Downtown Car Show, Downtown Art Show, holiday events, and parades.
• Coordinate and manage all logistics of event production and execution, including timely securing of all necessary permits, processing vendor applications, supervising and directing seasonal and permanent part-time event staff responsible for event implementation.
• Prepare, manage and track budgets for each special event.
• Serve as Downtown Liaison for Special Event Task Force, Downtown Ambassador Program, and other committees/organizations as needed.
• Provide input, assistance, and oversight to third-party producers of events held in Downtown.
• Solicit and coordinate the participation of Downtown businesses in planning and executing Downtown events, including staffing both standing and ad hoc event committees.
• Research special events in other communities, and collect organizational best practices and municipal policies/regulation of events; develop recommendations for improving Downtown events and/or City of Grand Junction event policies in coordination with Downtown and City staff.
• Attend and participate in regional meetings and conferences concerning Downtowns and their special event programming and production.
• Assist with Downtown marketing, especially pertaining to Special Events.
• Assist with securing sponsorships for Downtown events.

• Two years' increasingly responsible experience in special event management and production.
• Two years' volunteer coordination experience.
• Website management.
• Contract management.
• Possession of, or ability to obtain, a valid Colorado driver's license. 
• High School Diploma or G.E.D

Notice to Applicants:

In compliance with the Colorado Job Application Fairness Act, we kindly request that you do not include the dates of your education to include years of attendance or graduation on your application, resume or attachments.

Explore the Area:

Grand Junction, Colorado is the gateway to the mountains and canyonlands of western Colorado and eastern Utah. Centrally located between Denver, CO (250 miles east) and Salt Lake City, UT (270 miles west), Grand Junction is surrounded by 1.2 million acres of public land. Residents enjoy world-class whitewater rafting on the Colorado and Green Rivers, golfing, fishing, skiing and snowboarding, and exploring mountain bike and hiking trails through the Colorado National Monument and the Grand Mesa National Forest. Grand Junction has a robust downtown and hosts multiple art, music, food, and market events annually. With a population of over 150,000 in Mesa County (65,000 within the City limits) we have many of the big town amenities without the big town stresses such as traffic and trail congestion. With an average of 245 days of sunshine, Grand Junction is the perfect place to work and play. 

Learn more about our area on Visit Grand Junction's website and Instagram!

Salary : $20 - $26