Canada Diamond Awards

Mississauga, ON

Canada Diamond Awards

Mississauga, ON

special events organizer

Mississauga, ON (view on map)

Posted 1 day ago

Job Description

• Work Term: Seasonal
• Work Language: English
• Hours: 35 hours per week
• Education: College, CEGEP or other non-university certificate or diploma from a program of 3 months to less than 1 year
• Experience: 1 year to less than 2 years
Tasks
• Promote conference and meeting services or special events
• Develop marketing and communication plans
• Develop media strategies and public relations activities
• Solicit event donors
• Determine requirements for hospitality services, signage, multi-media equipment, printing and other technical services, and arrange for and manage contracts for these services
• Arrange for production or purchase of promotional products
• Co-ordinate media services
• Co-ordinate set-ups, staging, seating, parking, communication systems and other details for special events
• Confirm and co-ordinate speakers
• Implement registration systems
• Research and design special events programs
• Manage Event Logistics
• Develop and implement business plans
Supervision
• 1 to 2 people
Computer and technology knowledge
• Google Docs
• MS Excel
• MS Office
• MS PowerPoint
• MS Word
Area of work experience
• Community service organization
Personal suitability
• Accurate
• Client focus
• Efficient interpersonal skills
• Excellent oral communication
• Excellent written communication
• Flexibility
• Initiative
• Organized
• Team player
• Time management
• Resourcefulness
• Ability to multitask
Screening questions
• Are you authorized to work in Canada?
Employment terms options
• Flexible hours
• Weekend
Workplace information
• Hybrid
Other benefits
• Free parking available
Support for persons with disabilities
• Provides physical accessibility accommodations (for example: ramps, elevators, etc.)
Support for youths
• Participates in a government or community program or initiative that supports youth employment
• Offers on-the-job training tailored to youth
• Offers mentorship, coaching and/or networking opportunities for youth
• Provides awareness training to employees to create a welcoming work environment for youth
Supports for visible minorities
• Participates in a government or community program or initiative that supports members of visible minorities
• Applies hiring policies that discourage discrimination against members of visible minorities (for example: anonymizing the hiring process, etc.)
• Provides diversity and cross-cultural training to create a welcoming work environment for members of visible minorities