Job Description
Overview:
TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. Our client is the second largest private employer in Chicago. We are a multicultural, international community of more than 20,000 faculty and staff-each supporting UChicago's mission of inquiry and academic excellence. Our client is a Medical Center provides world-renowned patient care, while advancing medical science through groundbreaking research. Together, UChicago Medicine and the Biological Sciences Division are working to address the world's most pressing medical challenges.
Job Title: Events Manager
Duration: 4 Months
Location: Chicago, IL 60637
Job Type: Temporary Assignment
Work Type: Onsite
Shift: 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM (Mon-Fri)
Job Description:
Responsibilities:
- Reporting to the Associate Director of Event Management, the contract Assistant Director, Event Management , has primary responsibility for planning and executing events.
- This includes working with diverse student populations; supervising union and student staff; developing and monitoring event budgets and billing processes; contributing to and implementing unit policies and procedures; and maintaining relationships with vendors to successfully support a range of events across the portfolio.
- Assists with planning, coordination, and event support to student, staff, faculty, alumni, and affiliate clients within the evening and on weekends.
- Staff events and programs, and helps coordinate client needs on-site.
- Works with Client and Student Centers staff to encourage community involvement in providing services to a wide variety of facility users in the Student Centers.
- Participates in the regular planning cycle for Student Centers events.
- Coordinates and attends a wide range of events during the day and evenings in Reynolds Club, Mandel Hall, and other campus locations as required.
- Contributes to problem-solving related to unforeseen issues concerning events and guests within the facilities.
- Helps ensure all events conform to Client and special event policies as necessary, with a high level of sensitivity to customer service and enhancing public relationships with program organizers and participants.
- Utilizes industry standards and technological solutions when appropriate.
- Oversees scheduling and billing policies and implementation for the Student Centers' portfolio, including Ida Noyes Hall, Reynolds Club, Bartlett Hall (1st floor), and Mandel Hall, including the quarterly room lottery system for student organizations in collaboration with the Scheduling Coordinator.
- Provides consistent and high-level logistical support to all clients and events in the Student Centers portfolio.
- Ensures all reservations and billing are processed in a timely manner.
- Audits, scheduling, and billing practices as needed.
- Develops and maintains additional policies regarding scheduling and billing in collaboration with the Associate Director for Event Management.
- Cultivates and maintains relationships with vendors and departments that support events across the portfolio.
- These include on-campus departments such as AV Services, Facilities Services, and partner venues across the Client.
- Vendors may include audiovisual and rental furniture vendors, caterers, d cor, and floral vendors that support a variety of budgets and events.
- Hires, trains, supervises, and evaluates employees, including a full-time, non-exempt Scheduling Coordinator and a team of student employees.
- Serves as a member of the Student Centers staff and assists with various office programs and projects.
- This includes consulting and collaborating with the Assistant Director, Events Management, and fulfilling other duties as assigned with the Student Centers portfolio.
- Executes day-to-day event logistics and other moderately complex assignments with some guidance from others.
- Works to implement ideas for improvement as they are identified, in addition to providing post-event feedback on turnout and vendor performance, with direction from others.
- Performs other related work as needed.
Qualifications:
Minimum Qualifications
Education:
- Minimum requirements include a college or Client degree in related field.
Work Experience:
- Minimum requirements include knowledge and skills developed through 2-5 years of work experience in a related job discipline.
Preferred Qualifications:
Education:
- Bachelor's degree.
Experience:
- At least two years of experience in a progressively responsible work environment, preferably in a student union or hotel setting.
- Events management experience.
- Prior experience with financial administration and billing.
Technical Skills or Knowledge:
- Experience with Event Management Software (EMS) or similar software.
- Experience with Social Tables or similar software.
Preferred Competencies:
- Excellent oral and written communication skills and an ability to cultivate and manage strong relationships are a must.
- Demonstrate the ability to understand the needs of the Client community and work with students, faculty, and staff in a wide array of situations.
- Demonstrated the ability to work independently.
- Demonstrated success in working with diverse student populations.
Working Conditions:
- Flexibility to work various hours, including evenings and weekends.
- The temperament to work with a diverse and demanding population is expected.
TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Chicago, IL |
| Industry | Computer/IT Services |
| Salary | $33.33 |
| Company Size | 100 to 499 employees |
| Year Founded | 2009 |
| Website | http://www.tekwissen.com/ |
About Company
WE THE TEKWISSEN PEOPLE
TekWissen offers you a broader portfolio of services, industry-leading solutions, and the meaningful innovations that give you greater flexibility and speed to respond to market dynamics, reduced costs and risk to improve enterprise performance, and increased productivity to enable growth.
To keep pace with global market demands, TekWissen keeps its finger on the pulse of change. Our organized approach to guiding a project from its inception to closure. Managing projects is becoming more and more important as we enter the digital era. To cope with the pace that this transition demands, a method is required to manage projects so they can yield quality work, while incorporating efficient use of time and resources.
Project involves identifying which quality standards are relevant to the project and determining how to satisfy them.
It is important to perform quality planning during the Planning Process and should be done alongside the other project planning processes because changes in the quality will likely require changes in the other planning processes, or the desired product quality may require a detailed risk analysis of an identified problem. It is important to remember that quality should be planned, designed, then built in, not added on after the fact.
Capabilities and accomplishments in one TekWissen business enhance the opportunity for success in the others. Put simply, TekWissen's unique combination of attributes promotes success.Skills
- Audiovisualunmatched
- Billingunmatched
- Biologyunmatched
- Budget Managementunmatched
- Budgetingunmatched
- Communication Skillsunmatched
- Consultingunmatched
- Customer Support/Serviceunmatched
- Diversityunmatched
- Event Managementunmatched
- Financial Administrationunmatched
- Furnitureunmatched
- Industry Standardsunmatched
- Logisticsunmatched
- Medicineunmatched
- Multiculturalunmatched
- Needs Assessmentunmatched
- Organizational Skillsunmatched
- Patient Careunmatched
- People Managementunmatched
- Performance Reviewsunmatched
- Policy Implementationunmatched
- Presentation/Verbal Skillsunmatched
- Problem Solving Skillsunmatched
- Procedure Implementationunmatched
- Project/Program Coordinationunmatched
- Public/Media/Press/Analyst Relationsunmatched
- Relationship Managementunmatched
- Rentalsunmatched
- Scientific Researchunmatched
- Time Managementunmatched
- Vendor/Supplier Evaluationunmatched
- Vendor/Supplier Relationsunmatched
- Workforce Managementunmatched
- Writing Skillsunmatched
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