Major Event Facilitator

**Major Event Facilitator** **-** **(**2401193**)**
- A place where the city is your canvas
- A team that aims high | Commencing 6 January 2025
- Full-time, parental leave cover until 28 November 2025

**About the Opportunity**

The Major Event Facilitator’s purpose is to provide a key role to the successful delivery of an annual city-wide calendar of major outdoor events for hirers and users of Council Park Lands, roads and facilities. This role develops collaborative working relationships with major event organisers and other key stakeholders at all organisational levels, ensuring events and associated activities are successfully coordinated in line with relevant legislation and City of Adelaide policies and regulations.

The role delivers a solution-focused and sustainable approach to a highly dynamic sector. The Major Event Facilitator provides support and direction to customers and stakeholders to identify opportunities to magnify existing and establish new events in the City’s Park Lands and roads, while growing Adelaide’s cultural landscape and recognition both nationally and internationally.

Some of the events you will see yourself involved in are:

- Events of State and National significance
- Major community events

**About You**

To be successful in this role you will have:

- Understanding of and significant experience in outdoor event management.
- Ability to build positive relationships and consult, negotiate and communicate with all levels of management and staff, government agencies, stakeholders, event service providers and the community.
- Experience in delivering a high standard of customer services to prominent community and business leaders, international and cultural groups, VIPs, committees and boards.
- Significant understanding of the procedures, processes, policies and legislation required to deliver a diverse range of outdoor events.
- Demonstrated ability to understand broad commercial realities and to quickly absorb and understand relevant information from reports as required.
- Understanding of a project life cycle, and ability to assist with strategies relating to projects and programs and ability to promote cross functional collaboration.

**About Us**

Located in the geographic heart of Kaurna Country, the City of Adelaide celebrates its cultural heritage, unique natural surrounds and structures its footprint in a way that allows it to adapt to the changing needs of the community and a dynamic global landscape. Our focus is on our community’s wellbeing and quality of life - investing in city improvements and on future planning, so we continue to design a liveable city where future generations can continue to live authentic and meaningful lives. This is an exciting opportunity to join our team and be a bigger part of our amazing city

To find out how a role with City of Adelaide impacts the community, please watch this video here.

The City Shaping Portfolio leverages and celebrates our role as a Capital City Council and delivers the services that lead, shape and enable a creative, dynamic, resilient and diverse city both now and into the future.

At the City of Adelaide, we thrive in an environment that is welcoming, inclusive and safe, and celebrates difference. We value and embrace our diverse perspectives and recognise the value diversity has in fuelling innovation and enabling brilliant experiences for our diverse community.

**For Further Enquiries & How to Apply**

All enquiries regarding this position will remain private and confidential and can be directed to Rani Clark on 08 8203 7773 until 22 November, and Adam Hornhardt on 8203 7416 from 25 November

Please submit a Resume and a Cover Letter expressing the skills, experience and qualities you can bring to this position addressed to Rani Clark, Team Leader, City Events.

**Applications close at 11.59pm, 27 November 2024.**

Please be advised this is a full-time, parental leave cover opportunity starting at the salaried level 6 classification at $100,882 + 11.5% super.
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**Primary Location**: Adelaide - CBD

**Job**: Event Management

**Program**: CITY SHAPING

**Employment Status**: Fixed Term

**Hours of Work**: Full-time

**Job Posting**: 20/11/2024, 2:37:23 PM

**Unposting Date**: 27/11/2024, 7:29:00 AM