Event Specialist - Wollongong, Australia - Wollongong City Council

Wollongong City Council

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Wollongong, Australia

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Event Specialist

Part Time 28 hours Term Contract until December 2024

$97,139 up to $107,809 per annum plus superannuation**
_(Salary package will be assessed based on skills, experience and qualifications)_

Recruitment No: 23020
At Wollongong City Council we have a steadfast commitment to creating an Extraordinary Wollongong. We are in an exciting period of transformation and focused on delivering exceptional services, infrastructure and facilities for our community

Our strength is the diversity of our people. Together our responsibility is to create an inclusive place where everyone is welcome, valued and belongs. We lead with courage, openness and curiosity. Our conversations and actions celebrate diversity, inclusion and belonging. Learn more about us here.

About the position:

Wollongong City Council has been successful in securing a 'Stronger Together' Local Councils Major Festival Grant from Multicultural NSW to deliver two festivals over two years.

The festivals aim to enhance social cohesion, promote community harmony and celebrate and embrace our regions vibrant cultural diversity, through the bringing together of communities from diverse cultural backgrounds to co-create workshops and festival programming.

Working closely with Council staff and community members, you will play a pivotal coordination role in the successful delivery of this project, from community engagement through to festival production and delivery.

This position is initially part-time, working 4 days per week (28 hours), increasing to full-time (35 hours) prior to each festival delivery in 2023, and following a similar work pattern in 2024.

This is a term contract up to December 2024.

As this position requires manual tasks, applicants should be suitably fit to undertake the duties as outlined in the job description.

This role may also require you to work on weekends and evenings as required.

What do you need to be successful in this role?

You will be a seasoned events professional with experience in planning, preparing and delivering largescale community and cultural events/ festivals.
You will have a passion for community events and festivals and skills in performance programming and curation.
You will have demonstrated highlevel communication and relationshipbuilding skills allowing you to liaise and negotiate with a wide range of stakeholders.
Your project planning and monitoring will be secondtonone to ensure all milestones are reached.

What's in it for you?
You will be instrumental in the coordination and delivery of an exciting new festival for Wollongong. You will work with a dynamic team with a commitment to collaboration and excellent service delivery.

We are valueled, support and encourage personal and professional growth, recognise and reward performance and embrace change.
We provide flexible working arrangements such as hybrid working and flex.
We provide generous leave provisions including 5 weeks annual leave (pro rata for part time employees) per year of service.
We are committed to providing a safe working environment for all, (everyone, every day and everywhere) and make available wellbeing programs to support mental, physical and social wellbeing of our staff to be at their best.
Laptop provided with position.
Mobile phone Allowance (may apply).

Interested?

Selection Criteria -

Detail your experience in the project planning and successful delivery of largescale community events or festivals.
Tell us about your leadership skills and how you have used them to bring together a team and range of Internal and external stakeholders to coordinate a successful event.
How have you applied the principles and management of risk and WHS to a recent event you have coordinated?

A copy of the Selection Criteria Template can be found
HERE**
Applications close 11:59pm 27 February 2023.

More information:

Click on the attachment below to view the Position Description.
Contact Sofia Gibson City Culture + Activation Manager on for questions related to the job

- _Wollongong Council adheres to the principles of a child safe organisation and is committed to the care and protection of all children and young people in the community._
- _We are adhering to NSW Public Health Guidelines with regard to COVID19. As such this recruitment action will be conducted in line with current public health orders, for example online interviews. Currently there is also no mandatory COVID-19 vaccination requirement for this position. Should a public health order or relevant legislation require the position to comply to mandatory COVID-19 vaccinations, applicants will be required to comply._