Event Planner / Event Coordinator

The Event Coordinator or Event Specialist, is responsible for overseeing particular tasks throughout the event planning process. Their duties include meeting with vendors at the venue location to help with set-up, running errands for supplies and decorations and working with staff to ensure the completion of a successful event.

Responsibilities

• Maintaining a working knowledge of the complex needs of a wide variety of events
• Planning for potential scenarios that could impact the integrity of the event
• Establishing and maintaining relationships with vendors and venues
• Managing events and addressing potential problems that may arise
• Creating reliable financial reports and collecting payments on time
• Remaining under budget with all costs
• Planning event details and aspects, including seating, dining and guests

Qualifications

• Logistics: Everything in an event, from the seating to the entertainment, must be set up in a practical and useful manner for the guests. To accomplish this, the Event Coordinator must possess a degree of skill in logistics to properly plan the details and anticipate potential problems that may arise.
• Team Management: Event Coordinators carry out many tasks on their own, but a major aspect of the job is working with a team. Delegating to a team properly and making sure everyone has what they need to do their job requires team management and leadership skills.
• Communication and Interpersonal Skills: Event Coordinators are required to network with a wide variety of entities in the course of their job. Vendors and venues must be established, and an entire staff must be managed in order for an event to function properly. An Event Coordinator will need to have a general knowledge of what guests expect.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent
• Budgeting: Every event comes with a cost, and it’s the Event Coordinator’s job to keep those costs within the allocated budget. This will require a degree of financial skill as well as the ability to create accurate reports.