Senior Event Manager Ontario Convention Center

Position Title:             Senior Event Manager

Department:               Event Services

Reports To:                 Director of Event Services

Classification:            Salaried, Exempt

Compensation:          Yearly Salary Range of $85,000 up to $95,000 based on experience

LEGENDS GLOBAL

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Position Summary:  Under limited supervision, leads, coordinates, and oversees the scheduling and coordination of events at the OCC and to provide support and assistance to the Director of Event Services

Essential Functions:

• Responsible for functioning as a liaison between clients and the operating departments by providing planning and logistical information to both.
• Ensures successful events at the OCC through the supervision and training of Event Managers.
• Schedules staff to ensure that all events are professionally coordinated.
• Provides written communications to all facility departments.
• Ensures that tenant plans and requests comply with State, City and County rules and regulations.
• Collects and verifies information from service contractors including the scheduling of event space, facility decorating, early move-ins or over-stays, exhibits, the use of parking facilities, event set-up, and the location of equipment remaining on the property during and/or between events.
• Supervises the operation of events during tenant occupancy, maintaining contact with tenants to determine that all requests are successfully delivered.
• Administers, monitors, and enforces facility policies and safety regulations during event operations.
• Participates in the development and administration of the annual budget by providing feedback to the department director.
• Reviews and approves final billings following the completion of assigned events.
• Advises, negotiates, and monitors costs and accounts for tenants.
• Responds to customer and guest inquiries and resolves difficult and sensitive complaints.

Experience/Training/Education:

Required:         High School Diploma or GED

Four to five years management level experience coordinating events in a multi-purpose facility which services conventions, exhibits, trade and consumer shows, athletic events, concerts, sales meetings, food and beverage functions, etc. including the training and management of others.

License/Certificate:

Valid California Driver’s License

Knowledge/Abilities/Skills:

Knowledge of:

Convention, trade show, and entertainment terminology and procedures

Audio-visual and electrical equipment and its uses

Laws and regulations pertaining to public assembly facilities

Principals and procedures for crowd control, security, set-up and take down of events,

special lighting, booth wiring, compressed air usage, basic accounting, budget

preparation, facility management, supervision, and training and performance evaluation.

Ability to:

Communicate effectively and professionally both verbally and in writing

Read and interpret blueprints

Identify discrepancies between tenant needs and the capabilities of the facility

Solve problems with tenants and/or employees effectively

Establish and maintain effective working relationships with tenants, employees, peers,

and the public.

Skill to:

Operate modern office equipment, including computer, fax, phone, and copy machine

Operate motor vehicle.

Physical and Environmental Requirements: