Seeking Event Directors and Welcoming a New One
We’re excited to announce the hiring of Cortney DeArmond as our new Chicago Event Director. Cortney is already planning a full slate of NetParty Chicago events for 2010.
We are actively hiring Event Directors in most of our NetParty cities. The Event Director is the “face” of NetParty in their city and we believe it can be a once-in-a-lifetime experience for the right person, a self-starter who can handle much responsibility and demonstrate great initiative.
An Event Director is responsible for planning and managing our NetParty events from start-to-finish including finding and making deals with the best local venues, hiring and managing event staff, assisting us with the marketing and publicity of the event, managing our social media presence, and more. We expect that the job will require 5-10 hours per week.
- Keeping up-to-date on the latest and greatest event venues
- Negotiating with the venue to obtain the best benefits (drink specials, hors d’oeuvres, etc) for our members
- Recruiting, hiring, and training event personnel
- Writing the description for the event
- Promoting the event online and offline
- Managing our local presence on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and other social media services
- Finding and securing local event sponsorships (if sales are not your strong suit but event planning and marketing is, we would still love to talk to you)
- Have great enthusiasm for the business/social networking space!
- Be a leader who can exercise control at an event, while handling any problems that arise with diplomacy and grace
- Be a strong negotiator
- Be polite and possess strong customer service skills
- Be “in-the-know” with regard to local nightlife and the new, hot, “in” places
- Have an interest in event marketing (we will train you)
- Demonstrate strong writing skills
Sound interesting? We’d love to hear from you at jobs@netparty.com.
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