• Full time Perm role, Parramatta CBD as a base
• Opportunity to make a real difference every day
• Plan and deliver exceptional events for our exceptional people!
• Some regional travel - meet your colleagues!
• Competitive salary and benefits (including salary packaging)

When you’re part of Uniting, you’re part of a diverse, purpose-led team of people who really make a difference to the world around them. You’ll have the opportunity to challenge and innovate, learn and grow, and create a better future for yourself as well as people and communities across NSW and the ACT.

All about your new role

As our Events Manager you'll be responsible for supporting the People and Culture team to deliver a range of people programs and initiatives with a focus on the delivery of exceptional events including Excellence Award events, Service Award events, Leadership Forums and Senior Leader Forums. 

Uniting strives to be the best employer in our sector and retention of our employees is a priority.  We engage with our people at all levels of the organisation through a number of regular events. 

You'll regularly work with our Executives and CEO as well as our front-line employees through a number of regular events

These events are designed with our people at the heart and as such the design, delivery and people experience is imperative to their success. You'll have an innate ability to find imaginative, efficient and resourceful solutions, to deliver person-centred experiences

You will do this by:

Having absolute dedication to excellence, adaptability and a ‘can do’ attitude coupled with previous experience in managing and delivering events.

The role is ideally suited to someone who will roll up their sleeves, is hands on, is curious, loves a challenge, is dynamic, innovative, and absolutely passionate about making a real difference. Bring your positive, growth mindset and commitment to make a difference and work for a for-purpose organisation

Intrigued? Please keep reading!

Skills and experience required to succeed

• 3 or more years’ experience in end-to-end event management preferably in a complex organisation (We are 10,000 people strong and growing)
• Demonstrated project management expertise with ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• Confident communication and negotiation skills
• Excellent organisational and time management skills
• A can-do attitude with a strong level of professionalism, self-sufficiency, and initiative.
• High attention to detail you'll address the little things, that have a big impact on ensuring our people feel valued and events are polished 
• Current NSW drivers license and vehicle as travel will be required. Generous kilometre reimbursement offered.

Required Technical skills:

• Excel (v look up, pivot tables, editing and filtering distribution lists)
• Outlook calendar management
• Mail merge abilities and Distribution list management.
• SharePoint site editing (training also provided)Processing vendor invoices and managing a budget (training also provided)

• Benefits of working at Uniting

To learn more about your new role in detail, please email Louise Massie for more information at [email protected] using the subject line: Events Manager enquiry via EthicalJobs.

Please note there is no formal closing date for this role, if you are interested we would encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

We strongly encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders people to apply.

At Uniting we believe vaccination to be the best way to keep our employees and clients safe from COVID-19.  We require all employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 as a condition of employment.