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Events & Hospitality Coordinator

Description

Wage: $19.71 to $24.64

Job Type: Part-Time (20-34 hours per week)

Closing Date: 4/27/2025 or until filled

Location: Various DCL Branches


Purpose: The Events & Hospitality Coordinator supports externally-booked room reservations at Douglas County Libraries (DCL). This service-oriented position works directly with external customers providing satisfaction from planning and room reservation services to on-site event coordination. This intrinsically-motivated role executes logistics, facilitates technology and audio/visual services, and acts as a DCL host for community customers during the event.


Essential Duties and Responsibilities:


35% Administrative:

  • Builds and maintains strong interpersonal relationships with people outside the organization, representing the organization to customers, the public, government, and other external sources.
  • Communicates using excellent verbal and written skills to facilitate transparent flow of information to internal and external customers.
  • Identifies complex problems and evaluates options to resolve problems and remediate conflict.
  • Provides excellent, responsive customer service to community customers via telephone and through the online reservation process, collecting accurate information, telephone inquiries, written correspondence, and drafting event contracts. Acts and responds in a consistent, timely manner with every customer.
  • Assists with daily branch use of civic spaces including on-site room reservations, site/branch calendar maintenance, and communication regarding daily hosted events.
  • Represents DCL and works at signature events.


55% Event Management:

  • Assists with coordinating and planning external customer meetings and events, and provides back-up support to the Events & Hospitality Supervisor & Manager.
  • Manages time and projects effectively. Resolves errors and problems ensuring each event is properly set up, technology is functional, porter or event support is requested and special requests are fulfilled, for the overall delivery of an event exceeds customer expectations.
  • Develops a familiarity with each DCL branch, anticipating and remediating idiosyncrasies of each building, room and space, including elevator systems, lock systems, door entries, parking, and floor plans. Takes ownership of safety and security at each DCL Branch outside normal business hours.
  • Understands and implements multiple tiers of services for clients and events.
  • Serves as event liaison, coordinating event logistics before, during, and after event. Understands and anticipates customer needs.
  • Provides timely on-call, after hours events services as assigned
  • Creates positive experiences for customers by effectively and efficiently performing job tasks; presents a positive image of the library in attitude, communications and appearance while performing duties in both the public and staff areas.
  • Demonstrates a professional, positive, cooperative, team-oriented working relationship with staff, coworkers, and volunteers.
  • Supervises and directs volunteers for activities, setup and teardown at birthday parties and other offered packages.
  • Serving as on-site host for the entirety of event length through cordially and professionally greeting guests, anticipates needs, checking in with customer and ensures complete guest satisfaction.
  • At event’s conclusion, facilitates room clean up, resets furniture to original floorplan, and coordinates cleaning with Porter to ensure room is ready for use.


10% Technical Performance:

  • Maintains expert knowledge and use of computers, Microsoft Office Suite, Adobe Creative Suite, Apple and PCs.
  • Experience with software systems including room-floorplan, room-reservation, facility rentals, event assignment, customer/contract/proposal system, and other industry-related software.
  • Learns, uses and applies industry and organization-specific technology as needed.
  • Engages in the DCL performance feedback system and completes the expectations outlined by your supervisor and department/division.

Performs other duties as assigned.


One DCL Commitment: It is an expectation of each employee that you will exemplify Douglas County Libraries Brand, Culture and Values of welcoming to all, continual growth and authentic relationships.


Benefits: Douglas County Libraries (DCL) is a Colorado PERA Member Employer, so you will be enrolled in Colorado PERA. For details on member benefits go to www.copera.org.


Elective DCL benefits include:

  • Health Care Plans: medical, dental & vision
  • Voluntary Plans: Accident, Critical Illness, Short Term, and Long Term Insurance'
  • Life and Accidental Death & Dismemberment coverage
  • 401k & 457 plans (through CO PERA)
  • Legal-ID Shield

Additional DCL benefits include:

  • Holiday Pay
  • Paid Time Off
  • Sick Time
  • Leaves of Absence for Qualifying Events

*Benefits are subject to change

Requirements

Required

  • Associates degree
  • Two years’ previous administrative support or customer service experience
  • Valid Colorado Driver’s License, good driving record and a reliable vehicle to travel to a variety of Douglas County locations
  • Fluency in MS Office, and other industry related software.

Preferred

  • Bachelor’s degree in Hospitality, Event Management, Marketing, or related field

A combination of experience and education will be considered.


Physical Requirements: Must have a reliable method of transportation between all DCL locations. Vision is 20/40 or better in either eye with or without corrective lenses, and total combined horizontal field of vision, with both eyes, of at least 120 degrees. Must have the physical ability, stamina, mobility and manual dexterity to support a 7-day a week operation. Work at computer stations for extended periods. Access and transport materials up to 50 pounds. Participate in meetings and events at various locations and at varied times throughout the day. Ability to read as small as 8pt font.

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