Program Manager City Events

Job No: CN2053

Location: Newcastle, NSW

Employment Status: Permanent Full Time

No. of Vacancies: 1

Closing Date: 30 Sep 2019 AEST

• Deliver exceptional outcomes for some of Newcastle’s biggest events.
• Dynamic leader delivering positive outcomes across multiple disciplines.
• Strong business and commercial acumen to increase senior stakeholder engagement.
• Strong knowledge and understanding in statutory requirements for local government land use and licensing.
• Permanent Full-time - 35 hours per week.
• Flexible working with optional 9-day fortnight.

Located 160km north of Sydney, Newcastle is New South Wales’ second largest city, and offers the perfect lifestyle and career environment.

Our City is thriving and rapidly transforming. In recent years Newcastle has experienced a significant increase in development activity, with the 2017-18 Financial Year seeing building approvals top $1.2 billion.

Our City Change project involves moving our employees from our Office in the Civic precinct to 12 Stewart Avenue, Newcastle West in October 2019. This creates a great opportunity to align staff with our organisational vision, values and strategic directions, and leverage the great work the organisation is undertaking which supports cultural improvement.

City of Newcastle (CN) is looking for an exceptional Program Manager to manage the day to day operations and aspects of CN’s City Events Program and develop policies and processes required to facilitate the program.

Reporting to the Manager Major Events and Corporate Affairs you will lead CN’s strategy to attract significant major events to the City, including the management of a Major Event Development Fund in excess of $250,000 annually.

This role will enhance and maintain the project management and governance framework for the Supercars Newcastle 500 Project, and other significant events in the City.

Your ability to develop a wide network of contacts across the industry both public and private will play an important role to build collaborative working relationships specifically for large scale events in the public domain.

Your comprehensive understanding of NSW Local Government and the functions and roles of NSW State Government agencies will contribute to the successful roll-out of event programs.

At CN our people are valued and have access to a range of benefits that help balance life at work and at home. These include flexible working arrangements, professional development opportunities and health and wellbeing programs.

To be successful in this job you will need:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Commerce or a related qualification, and/or demonstrated capability through past employment experience.
• Formal Project Management qualifications or significant demonstrated experience delivering outcomes as a Program Manager.
• The ability to manage and coordinate a Project Management Team whose expertise is critical to delivering multiple major projects.
• Demonstrated experience managing a professional team across multiple disciplines to deliver operational aspects including financial, human resource and logistical arrangements, within planned budgets, scope, quality and time constraints.
• Demonstrated capacity to manage, monitor and evaluate a budget or experience in the development of budgets and service plans, monitoring and reporting of financial and work performance.
• Demonstrated experience in the completion of assigned tasks with minimal supervision, while meeting deadlines and within budget project delivery.
• Experience in licensing large scale events in the public domain in accordance with local government events protocol.
• Experience in conducting commercial events in the public domain.
• Excellent leadership and interpersonal skills, as well as sound influencing and stakeholder management skills.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate clearly and effectively with all levels of staff as well as proven ability to write professional, appropriate and accurate documentation, memos and reports.
• Experience in producing written communications including formal reports, policies, procedures and governance documents; correspondence to external customers; formal correspondence to government representatives and government bodies; and communications copy to assist marketing and delivery of events.
• Demonstrated commitment to foster a creative culture that supports excellence and direction setting, whilst building strategic relationships within CN to deliver programs of excellence.
• Proven ability to attract, develop and support staff from a diverse range of business backgrounds to ensure continuity of project delivery.
• Strong senior stakeholder engagement and influencing skills in a community and public benefit driven environment.
• Be willing and able to work in a dynamic and fluid environment with the flexibility to work outside regular business hours during the evening and on weekends.
• Any other accountabilities or duties as directed by Supervisor / Manager which are within the employee’s skills, competence and training.
• Ability to be agile and adaptable in a changing environment.
• Proven experience leading people through change.

Desirable

• A mix of local government and commercial experience.
• Current Class C driver's licence.

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City of Newcastle proudly promotes the principles of Equal Employment Opportunity and fosters a culture of diversity to represent the community of our Local Government Area.

All candidates will be assessed against the selection criteria outlined in the position description. Suitable candidates may be placed on an eligibility list for future identical positions for a period of 12 months.

You must have the right to live and work in Australia to apply for this job.

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Application Closing Date: 29 September 2019.

Remuneration: $122,582 + 9.5% Superannuation per annum for a 35 hour week.

Contact: Kathleen Hyland, Manager Major Events and Corporate Affairs, 02 4974 2877.