Senior Events Manager

Job titleSenior Events Manager

Reports to Chief Operating Officer

Job purpose

The Senior Events Manager is a leader who will be managing a passionate and professional events team. This team is responsible for delivering gold standard events across Australia that are safe and inspiring. These events connect and engage communities through our mission to raise funds and cure cancer.

As the leader, you will demonstrate the CARING values of Tour de Cure every day. Through your experience delivering large scale outdoor events you will challenge the team to continuously grow and improve, foster collaboration across the organisation and enable the involvement of our incredible volunteer network.

Our rides, walks, runs, swims and community events are at the heart of who we are. You will have the opportunity to work with incredible humans and generous corporate partners like CBA, Lexus, Woolworths, EY, Suncorp. This requires a high level of professionalism, planning and detail in event execution.

Your strengths in operational management will ensure that we continue to improve processes, create efficiencies across our activities and manage budgets. This along with your effective supplier management will innovative ways to create fundraising opportunities. You will have a direct impact on TDC’s ability to fund Australian researchers working towards finding a cure for cancer.

Key responsibilities

• In conjunction with the Chief Operating Officer, identify and deliver best practices to streamline event activities and procedures to increase efficiencies.

• Support the Events team with scoping of event logistics, activations, and experiential components.

• Oversee and work with the team to ensure event budgets are maintained.

• Manage and guide the Events team in project management through JIRA and our ways of working process.

• Deliver a safety-first culture in all that we do.

• Be the project lead and/or events lead on specific events of your own.

• Coach, motivate and maintain a positive team morale.

• Build and maintain strong relationships with supplier’s and industry bodies and introduce VIK partnership opportunities.

• Work with the Volunteer Manager to improve the volunteer experience through clear communication, briefings and safety support.

• This role will work closely with TdC’s Finance, Partnerships and Fundraising teams, and the Tour Experience Committee.

Highly experienced in the following:

• Logistics and planning of large-scale events.

• Financial management across department budgets.

• Team leadership and development.

• Project management and experience in equivalent software.

• Risk and safety governance.

About you…

• Experienced leadership of an events team in a fast-paced environment.

• More than 3yrs experience as an Events Manager.

• Strong communicator with an ability to find clarity in confusing situations.

• Team-player but able to work autonomously and with initiative.

• Solutions focused and ability to work with multiple stakeholder groups.

• Have an enabling mindset while willing to get the job done.

• Strong charity ethos. Driven to make a difference.

Working conditions

You will need to travel across the country for events, we do have recovery policies in place to look after our team.

The majority of your week is at our Northern Beaches office; however we have the flexibility to work from home.

Key measures of success

• NPS score of >85% for all events from participants.

• Deliver all events in the calendar year within budgeted costs.

• Your team executes all event deliverables on time and towards our safety standards that aim at zero injuries.

• Complete all leadership tasks aligned to the TDC strategic growth goals.

• Always conduct yourself in line with the TDC CARING values.