Coordinator, Events at Deakin University (Geelong, VIC)

Job Description

Founded in 1974, Deakin is a public university in Victoria with 61,000 students across five campuses: Melbourne Burwood, Geelong Waurn Ponds, Geelong Waterfront, Warrnambool, and the online Campus. We are a progressive and open-minded university, with the highest student satisfaction in Victoria and consistently ranked in the top 1% of the world’s universities.

This position is in the Commercial Events space and sits within the broader Venues and Events team which is responsible for fee-for-service conferences, professional event support across other areas of the university and external hire of university facilities.

Your key responsibilities will include:

Project managing and delivering medium risk conferences and events as directed by the Manager, Events in accordance with the annual commercial and corporate events calendar.

Providing professional event support and advice during the pre-planning of medium risk Faculty and Divisional events, as well as on the ground support during the implementation of these events.

Being responsible for commercial events software which supports academic conferencing, including call for papers, registration, conference APP and online attendee portal.

To be successful, you’ll have:

Qualifications and experience

An equivalent combination of relevant experience and/or education/training

Demonstrated high-level organisational and event/project and time management skills.

Demonstrated high-level of skills and professionalism (including accuracy and formatting) in documentation development.

Exceptional interpersonal communication skills (written and verbal) including negotiation, presentation and customer relationship building skills.

Proven ability to work independently, and collaboratively, to achieve project timelines and objectives.

Ability to manage multiple events simultaneously.

Experience working with online event management tools and/or a CRM database.

Experience working with online web interfaces and web management.

Highly developed skills in windows-based computer applications such as Word, Excel and email. Familiarity with InDesign is desirable.

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