Events Coordinator

Part Time (22.5 hours per week)
- Family Friendly
- Free Parking

The Hospital Research Foundation (THRF) Group is seeking an exceptional team player to plan, coordinate, and deliver our annual stakeholder events to achieve brand awareness, supporter engagement and fundraising outcomes.

**This position would suit someone who would like to do the hours over four days or three full days. When required, some hours would be outside business hours and on weekends.**

**About THRF Group**

THRF Group is the leading South Australian profit for purpose organisation, with national and international impact. Our purpose is simple - together, fight for better health and wellbeing for our community through life-changing medical research and improved healthcare.

This position is located at our head office in Woodville, with gyms and restaurants close by, free parking available onsite and a 4 min walk to the train station. In addition, we also offer flexible, family-friendly work arrangements for our team.

Our culture encourages innovation and teamwork in a fun environment. You’ll join a passionate team driven by our cause and the positive impact we have in the community.

**About the role**

Reporting to the Senior Manager - Corporate and Community Engagement and working closely with other team members and business units, this role will provide you with the opportunity to successfully implement results-driven short and long-term strategies to achieve THRFG’s brand awareness, engagement and income development objectives through best-practice fundraising and friend-raising events, whilst highlighting our impact in the community. Some after hours and weekend work will be required for sporting and corporate partnership events.

**Role responsibilities include**:
- Work with appropriate team members to develop comprehensive event briefs and project plans for appointed events and staff engagement activities for THRFG
- Coordinate the operational delivery of events, including working with external partners and suppliers within the planned timeframe
- Maintain and record fundraising and engagement activity utilising Microsoft Dynamic CRM
- Work closely with the appropriate internal departments to delegate marketing and logístical tasks for each event
- Ensure that event stakeholders (such as volunteers, sponsors community groups and business sponsors) are communicated with and nurtured in an appropriate and timely manner
- Track event attendee feedback and performance, through post event surveys, attendance numbers and financial performance against KPIs
- Support the Corporate and Community Engagement team with various community and sporting activations and events

**About you**

To be successful in the role you will ideally have;
- Demonstrated experience coordinating large-scale, complex events
- Experience in budget management
- Experience in relationship management of a wide range of stakeholders and understanding corporate representatives, suppliers, and the public
- Sound knowledge of MS Office (Word, Excel, Outlook)
- Knowledge of community/peer-to-peer fundraising activities would be an advantage
- A minimum of 2 years' experience in events or administration support
- Excellent organisational and time management.
- Ability to prioritise workloads to meet deadlines within tight timeframes.
- Well-developed written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to work unsupervised, co-ordinate and prioritise work. The ability to work with collaboratively with team members and positively contribute to the culture of our organisation.

Please ensure you have read the Position Description provided and addressed the key criteria in your covering letter.