Events Specialist
1 month ago
Who Can Apply?:
**Internal (DCC Employees) and External (General Public)**
- Salary Range:
**$77,139 - $100,281**
- Employment status:
**Continuing**
- Term Length:
- Security Level:
**Reliability**
- Language Requirement:
**Bilingual Mandatory**
- Closing Date:
**08/11/2024**
- Country:
**Canada**
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**Language requirement**: Bilingualism mandatory - Fluency in English & French
**Location of work**: Our team operates in a hybrid work environment, offering flexibility between working from the office and remotely. Occasional travel may be required to attend meetings and other events. This role may occasionally require working outside normal office hours to support event execution.
**Here is your exciting opportunity**
**These are your responsibilities**
Reporting to the Team Leader, Corporate Communications, you will be responsible for developing and executing innovative plans for events. You will use your experience and expertise to make recommendations on the latest tools and platforms to support successful, engaging national and local events ranging from employee recognition awards to trade shows and high-level meetings.
You will collaborate effectively with a range of people internally and externally, teaming up with your colleagues in digital communications to develop appropriate messages and materials for events. You’ll produce presentations, develop metrics to evaluate success and deliver reports to support your work and engage stakeholders. In addition, you will be called upon to negotiate contracts for event services and manage logistics for these services whenever necessary.
As the bilingual Events Specialist, you will take a leadership role to ensure that last-minute snags are ironed out, and that events run smoothly on the day.
You will be responsible for selecting, buying and distributing corporate branded merchandise, including event-specific and milestone-related items.
**Your knowledge, skills, experience and fit within our organization**
You are adept at working with senior leaders to make sure they perform at their best. This includes making them comfortable at video shoots, supplying them with excellent speaking notes, and responding quickly and authoritatively to their questions and concerns before and during events.
Above all, in a role dedicated to planning, supporting and executing events, we want someone who is excited about bringing fresh ideas about events to our organization and being accountable for delivering results.
**Meet your team**
Our dedicated and professional Communications team operates like an agency within DCC, offering varied support to different business units within the organization. You will play a central role in our day-to-day success and your event planning, execution and reporting will be instrumental in helping us to foster an inclusive and engaging culture of belonging for all DCCers.
**Check out your benefits**
Working with us offers excellent opportunities for growth and advancement—and entitles you to one of the job market’s best benefits packages valued at between 25 and 30% of your salary.
In addition, DCC’s culture is strong and our people know they are valued and appreciated—our staff retention rate is 93%, our employee approval rate is 95%, and we were named to Forbes’ list of Canada’s Best Employers in 2022.
**Your package will include**:
Health and Wellness
- 100% employer-paid annual sick leave, and health and dental premiums
- $400 wellness allowance to help cover expenses such as a gym membership
- $1,500 for mental health services on top of regular $1,500 paramedical coverage
- Telus Virtual Health Care and $750 Health Care Spending Account for some expenses not covered under provincial plans
Home and Family
- Life, accidental-death, and short-term disability insurance
- Enhanced inConfidence employee and family assistance program
- Maternity and parental leave top-up plan to 93% of regular gross earnings for up to 17 weeks
- Flexible workplace options, including $400 allowance every two years, to support working from home
Leave and Retirement
- Public-service pension
- Comprehensive vacation and other paid-leave plans, along with deluxe travel benefit plans
**How to apply?**
To be considered for this position, please submit a recent resume detailing your experience in events management, and a cover letter. Please use the cover letter to tell us about a recent successful event you planned. What was your role? What were the outcomes?
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