Sales and Events Manager
Education and/or Equivalent Experience:
- Graduation with a Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university with major coursework in Marketing, Liberal Arts, Business Administration or related field, plus five (5) years of relevant work experience in a convention center, public events, event facility or other related facility/industry, two (2) years of which were in a lead or supervisory capacity.
- Experience may substitute for education up to the maximum of four (4) years.
The purpose of this Sales and Events Manager position oversees the Office of Special Events (OSE) at PARD.
Other responsibilities will include but are not limited to:
- Oversee event/festival permit needs and review (examples may include: SXSW, ACL, Urban Music Fest, Food and Wine Festival).
- Assist with coordination of event ceremonies, film permitting and logistics.
- Assist clients with permitting processes in the park system and liaise with other departments to ensure successful event production.
- Provide technical, permit, and event related contract assistance to other divisions.
- Specific tasks on each project will include authoring functional requirements for Business Operations teams, developing project plans, budgets, and schedules, managing tasks and teams on the project’s critical path, identifying, and resolving issues, and managing the overall success of assigned projects.
- Provide reports and briefings to Boards and Commissions, City Council, other city departments, staff, affinity/stakeholder groups.
- Supervise event coordination staff.
- Monitor unauthorized use of parkland for events.
- Project manage post-event grounds conditions restoration work, lead contract completion and contract management work, and direct team activities in representation of the department.
- Conducts and participates in strategy meetings to ensure transparency amongst the team and its activities; ensures all business and event requirements are in line with proposals and currently meeting client needs as well as the operational requirements of the department and City of Austin.