Senior Events Manager

2 weeks ago

Cape Town, South Africa OfferZen Full time

**The Opportunity**:
It's an exciting time to join OfferZen, and the Engagement team in particular. You will help us define our online/in-person/hybrid event strategy. You'll get to work with a variety of partners across SA and the EU, building a solid network within the event organiser community. You'll be exposed to new and different markets with their own unique dynamics and communities. We have a high standard when it comes to our events, and you'll work with our swag logistics manager and designers to make sure our experience goes to the next level.

**What you'll do**:

- Manage project plans, workflows and timelines for each event
- Book venues and coordinate with suppliers ensuring all event collateral and/or gifts are received and distributed
- Work closely with our marketing teams to ensure we achieve our event marketing goals
- Oversee content production, sourcing and work with high caliber speakers that will resonate with our target audiences
- Work closely with our Experience Designer to ensure we deliver optimal attendee experiences that drives key event metrics
- Maintain event budgets and ensure proper post-event spend reporting
- Own the event retro process ensuring we capture learnings, update processes and report on events to internal stakeholders
- Anticipate and ensure compliance with GDPR/POPI requirements.

**You'll be a great fit for this role if you have**:

- University degree in communications or marketing advantageous
- 5+ years experience in event production OR project management with a proven track record of success
- Project management certification (advantageous)
- Experience in producing world-class event content, working with speakers to craft their stories
- Proven ability to secure and work with high-quality speakers
- Good knowledge of online conferencing and engagement tools and platforms e.g. Livestorm, Zoom, Crowdcast, Hopin.
- Experience working within a high growth tech startup/scale up is preferable

**What it's like to work here**:
**We love to do fun stuff together**. We are focused on building a connected tribe and a sense of belonging. We value unique and diverse approaches and ensure we create opportunities to share and learn from each other. We have regular online events, show and tells and a book club as well as regional and annual off-site events.

**We're dedicated to authenticity**: We treat people as people, caring personally and speaking openly. We foster low-ego behaviour - we own our mistakes as well as our victories. We're never about blame. We're always about honesty, learning and continuous improvement. We ensure lots of transparency and visibility. From OKRs and strategy to analytics and company performance numbers, it's all available for you to see and understand.

**We're passionate about learning and levelling up**: Everyone at OfferZen strives for a growth mindset. We read books, listen to podcasts, share expertise obsessively, then take on hard challenges with smart guidance and support. When things go wrong, we look for the learning and how to improve.

**We're all about balance**: We believe that maintaining a healthy balance between home and work is the key to feeling happier and more productive. We work fully remote and also offer 20 days of leave a year which are available to use from the time you start.

**The OfferZen Story**:
Over the last 6 years, we have managed to make a large dent in the South African online tech recruitment marketplace - and we're speeding up. We have a team of 150+ people with offices in both Cape Town and Amsterdam. At 6 years young, we're still in an exciting scale-up phase which allows us to develop new and exciting ideas, innovate our product, and think creatively about solving real problems.
- **This role can be based locally or remotely - we welcome all applicants based in South Africa.

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