Manager, Events

**JOB DESCRIPTION**

**Title: Manager, Events & Stakeholder Engagement (1 Year Contract)**

**Location: Vancouver, BC (Hybrid)**

**ABOUT THE BC COUNCIL FOR INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION (BCCIE)**

BCCIE occupies an essential leadership and protocol position in the International Education (IE) sector. On behalf of the province, it conceives, plans, coordinates, implements, and evaluates a wide range of activities, including senior executive and governmental activities, professional development opportunities, protocol functions, and both outgoing and incoming missions and delegations. Our stakeholders include, but are not limited to, senior leadership from across BC’s diverse education sector, colleagues from provincial and federal ministries, and elected officials.

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The Manager, Events & Stakeholder Engagement reports to the Director, External Relations with considerable liaison with the Executive Director and the Director, Operations and Communications. This position requires experience, initiative, commitment, excellent judgement, tact, and diplomacy as well as a high level of quality and accuracy of work to oversee activities from conception to completion.

**RESPONSIBILITIES**

This position is responsible for supporting the oversight, management, and implementation of a broad range of activities provincially, nationally, and internationally including the following:

- Professional development and sector capacity building events
- Programs and services focussed on Interculturalization, Indigenization and Reconciliation, and mentorship
- Event report writing for submission to BCCIE and designated government ministries
- Budget planning and tracking for events

With direction from the Director, External Relations, the Manager, Events & Stakeholder Engagement undertakes the following:
**Strategic Initiatives**
- Supports strategic projects and provides project management and guidance for the design and delivery of building BCCIE strategies for Indigenization, Reconciliation and Interculturalization, and provides capacity building support to the sector, particularly in regions outside the Lower Mainland
- Manages the BCCIE International Education Mentorship Program (IEMP) including the implementation of the program activities, evaluation of the program, management of annual budgets, and development of a broad range of communications, activities, and events
- Provides coordination and support for the Ministry of Education and Child Care International Education scholarships and awards, including, but not limited, to data entry, administration, adjudication, processing of payments, drafting reports, and working with the Communications team to create and update content for the promotion of awards and scholarships
- Supports the analysis of the BCCIE annual survey and creates other strategic surveys as required, using data collected to inform BCCIE programs and events
- Leads student support initiatives including Working Group activities
- Supports other projects and initiatives in coordination with government and other stakeholders, as required

**Conference and Other Event Management**
- Manages all onsite logistics during events and briefs the Director responsible for the events
- Leads all post-event activities such as post-mortem, speaker and attendee follow-up, feedback survey collation and review, etc.
- With guidance from the Directors, creates annual calendar of capacity building events, including sourcing speakers from the International Education community, with input from the senior management team
- Provides input and makes recommendations when preparing annual budgets
- Oversees event-related communications with select domestic and international stakeholders as required

**Event Platform Support and Management**
- Responsible for keeping up with industry standards for in-person, hybrid, and virtual events and proposing event technology upgrades and changes according to BCCIE’s needs as they evolve over time
- Works closely with the Market Support and Partnership team with the development and setup of virtual platforms for B2B partnership events, webinars, hybrid and in-person events

**Institutional and District Relations**
- Responsible for establishing and maintaining a network of contacts within the broad community of education stakeholders in BC and internationally

**SUPERVISION RECEIVED**

Reports to the Director, External Relations
- Work is performed under general direction with mínimal day-to-day guidance

**UNUSUAL WORKING CONDITIONS**

A high level of initiative and self-directed action is required to maintain the profile and integrity of the organization as the representative of and portal to international services and activities of the International Education sector in British Columbia.

The incumbent will occasionally be the sole representative of the Province, the BC education system, and/or BCCIE, and as such must pay particular attention to personal appearance and manner. The ab