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Graduate Assistant Events Management
Job Description
Company Description:
CBU is committed to creating and maintaining a rigorous and enriching learning experience for our students by providing them the best instruction and support by a superior faculty and staff. CBU encourages opportunities to celebrate diversity in an environment that prepares our students to be global citizens. CBU is an attractive and safe campus environment, and it is quite possibly one of the friendliest campuses anywhere. If you would like to contribute to these hallmarks of a CBU education, please consider applying for our faculty or staff vacancies through these current employment opportunities. Provide overall leadership and direction in all Events Scheduling and Technical matters. Manage on campus events, including setting up chairs and tables for layout requests. Set up and install media equipment such as LCD projectors, speakers, TVs, video monitors, and cameras. Set up and run the sound and video equipment used to conduct live events such as meetings and on campus events. Manage online event requests, event schedules and calendars. Research, evaluate, and recommend new ideas and vendors to support evolving event needs. Support relationships with vendors, from production to execution. Think big to deliver new ideas and creative approaches to constantly improve process. Send out reminders of scheduled meetings to different departments. Answer event scheduling queries via email and phone. Keep Events Management Department informed of project timelines and associated deadlines.
Requirements:
Superior oral and written communication skills Passionate about process and an innate attention to detail Excellent time management, resource management, and planning skills Ability to manage time and juggle multiple priorities to execute high-quality deliverables Experience working in a fast-paced, highly cross-functional organization
Additional Information:
Christian Brothers University is a Catholic university in the student-centered tradition of the De La Salle Christian Brothers. CBU fosters academic excellence in a range of programs to prepare students from all faiths and backgrounds for careers and lives informed by the Lasallian values of faith, service, and community. Christian Brothers University offers a comprehensive benefits package including health, dental, vision, life and disability insurance, flexible spending, retirement pension plan, 403(b), and both undergraduate and graduate tuition waiver plans. CBU also offers tuition waivers for dependents of employees and participates in the Tuition Exchange Program, a reciprocal scholarship exchange program for family members of full-time faculty and staff. Christian Brothers University offers equal employment opportunity to all applicants for employment, regardless of sex, age, race, color, religion, sexual orientation, national and ethnic origin or disability.
Benefits
- 403(b) Tax-Sheltered Annuity Plans
- Other Retirement and Savings
- Health Insurance
- Dental Insurance
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What they do
An Event Planner coordinates promotional sales events, professional meetings and family events. Works with clients, develops event plans and budgets, finds appropriate sites, contracts for services and supplies, coordinates with on-site staff, oversees finances and assists during an event.
$49,077 / year median in Tennessee
+11% projected growth