Community Events Coordinator

TEAM LOCAL is hiring.

Are you an aspirational marketer or a budding philanthrope? If yes, please check out this fantastic opportunity to grow your career in either direction We are looking for a highly motivated, enthusiastic, organized and a fun-loving Community Events Coordinator, to join our pretty awesome team. In this role, you would develop and execute local community events and sponsorships in collaboration with various stakeholders, ensuring their effective planning, promoting, supporting and reporting. This is a fixed-term opportunity (18 months contract) and requires travel and flexibility with work hours, including weekends and evenings.

**What you’ll do**:
The role involves Event and Sponsorship Planning, Event and Sponsorship Management, Communications and Employee Engagement.

Key responsibilities include:

- Developing and implementing an integrated social media plan
- Recommending local area, event and sponsorship marketing and business development opportunities to meet business objectives.
- Supporting branches in planning and implementing branch-initiated community events and programs.
- Establishing success metrics and measurement tools for local events and sponsorship activities.
- Liaising with event and sponsorship vendors, including negotiating terms and conditions and finalizing contracts.
- Leading cross-functional teams to effectively activate events and sponsorships, including on-site supervision of events and sponsorships, and coordination of event services and suppliers.
- Managing the production of event materials and sales/activation tools.
- Coordinating lead generation activities from events and sponsorships.
- Assessing and communicating the overall impact of local area, event and sponsorship marketing activities and identifies opportunities for improvements.
- Supporting the quote process with suppliers and ensures production and/or service meets approved standards and timelines.
- Sourcing, purchasing and coordinating promotional merchandise orders and inventory as needed.
- Overseeing the budget and invoicing for local events and sponsorships.
- Working closely with procurement to ensure agreements are updated and signed-off with sponsors and other vendors.
- Providing full debrief after events and sponsorship activities.
- Communicating local area, event and sponsorship marketing plans and activities; integrates content into media and promotional plans.
- Supporting communication with non-charitable sponsorships and partnerships including negotiations as required.
- Ensuring employee volunteerism is tracked and recorded
- Working with Digital Marketing Manager and Creative team to build and develop communication plans with timelines to promote upcoming events and sponsorships.
- Other duties as assigned.

**What you’ll need**:

- Diploma in marketing, communications, or related discipline; one-year related experience; or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Knowledge of marketing communications processes.
- Ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing.
- Ability to plan, schedule, organize and prioritize work and meet deadlines during periods of high volume.
- Ability to work collaboratively with others in department and within the Corporate Office.
- Ability to use initiative and work independently.
- Physically able to set up tents, load equipment and boxes of supplies into van, etc.
- Class 5 driver’s license and clean driver’s abstract required.
- Food safe certificate - preferred.
- First aid certificate - preferred.
- Event Planning experience preferred.

**About Prospera**

Built on more than 75 years as a BC credit union, Prospera Credit Union is a community-based, purpose-driven organization that offers a full range of financial products and services. Prospera is British Columbia’s fourth-largest credit union, with $9 billion in assets and 120,000 members. With 26 branches, Prospera is proud to serve communities from Vancouver, through the Fraser Valley, and to the Okanagan. It’s our vision to help build vibrant, healthy communities, thriving local enterprises and financially empowered people.

**Our values**

Cultivate trusting relationships: We are local at heart, aligned in our purpose to help our members, communities and team thrive.

Empower and enable others: We give each other the space, trust, and tools to succeed.

Lead with curiosity: We approach all circumstances with curiosity and a drive for continuous learning and improvement.

Embrace change and execute with purpose: We plan with agility, take action and pivot to deliver results.

Thrive as One Team: We collaborate because it strengthens us.

**What’s in it for you?**

**Inclusive, equitable and accessible workplace**: All team members are valued, respected and heard. We learn from each other’s differences, gaining strength through our people and our perspectives.

**Training and support.** We set our employees up for success with training