What would you do as an Event manager?
Event managers
- usually work regular business hours but may work weekends or evenings
- usually work in offices and at indoor and outdoor venues
- need to be organised, solve problems and communicate well
Tasks
- plan and run events for clients
- book venues, staff and equipment
- manage event budgets and spending
- organise event schedules and activities
- check event spaces meet requirements
- deal with customer questions and concerns
- negotiate contracts with suppliers
- prepare financial reports for events
- make sure events follow the rules
- work with teams to run events
How can you become an Event manager?
You usually need experience to become an event manager and a qualification may be useful.
You may need
- experience in similar work
- a relevant tertiary qualification in business and management, sales and marketing, communication and media or similar area
If you're in school
You usually need NCEA Level 3 to do the study or training for this job.
