Partnerships Coordinator

SXSW Sydney

South By Southwest dedicates itself to helping creative people achieve their goals.

About the job From October 2024, SXSW, the world’s most iconic future-focused conference and festival of events will have a 2nd annual event in Sydney, focusing on the creative industries in the Asia-Pacific region.

If you love working in a fast-paced environment with a slice of fun, you’re adaptable, a team player, engaged and caring about the creative community we serve, then come and join us!

The Role As a member of the SXSW Sydney Commercial Partnerships Team, the Partnerships Coordinator will be responsible for providing administrative support to the SXSW Sydney Commercial Partnerships Team throughout the sales & account delivery process.

About the SXSW Sydney Team: We’re an open minded, collaborative, talented bunch with a common purpose: to help creative people achieve their goals.

Responsibilities

• Provide high level organisational and administrative support, including minute keeping, agenda & output management, and the organisation of team WIPs & interdepartmental meetings
• Working alongside various team members, lead the creation of sales, activation and campaign delivery presentations / decks
• Responsible for updating and maintaining a number of key databases: contact & leads board, sponsor deliverables board, critical path
• Strategic selling; working closely with the Commercial Partnerships Team to research potential leads and negotiate sales terms to secure new partners
• Support Partner account management across a variety of workstreams; Partner benefit delivery, hospitality & networking events, ticketing administration, post-campaign reporting
• Work closely with the Commercial Partnerships Team to facilitate the partner contracting process
• Administration support to ensure the finance and invoicing process is seamlessly executed
• Other ad hoc duties as required

From October 2024, SXSW, the world’s most iconic future-focused conference and festival of events will have a 2nd annual event in Sydney, focusing on the creative industries in the Asia-Pacific region.

If you love working in a fast-paced environment with a slice of fun, you’re adaptable, a team player, engaged and caring about the creative community we serve, then come and join us!

The RoleAs a member of the SXSW Sydney Commercial Partnerships Team, the Partnerships Coordinator will be responsible for providing administrative support to the SXSW Sydney Commercial Partnerships Team throughout the sales & account delivery process.

About the SXSW Sydney Team:We’re an open minded, collaborative, talented bunch with a common purpose: to help creative people achieve their goals.

• 🗓 Project Coordination
  

  Coordinate people and processes to ensure the effective and timely running of a project

• 🚦 Operations Query Handling
  

  Receive, resolve, or redirect incoming queries to ensure the organization runs smoothly

• ✅ Stakeholder Engagement
  

  Partner with stakeholders to understand specifications, business requirements, and communicate insights

• ✅ Prioritization
  

  Compares and ranks the relative importance &/or urgency of different tasks to identify the best order of actions

• 🛎 Service orientation
  

  Actively seeks and develops strategies to help key stakeholders

• 🔍 Attention to detail
  

  Accurately identifies and rectifies discrepancies or errors that exists in information and deliverables