Assistant Director of Event Management

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent combination of education and experience;
• One year experience and working knowledge of intercollegiate sport regular season and championship event management processes, issues, considerations and solutions; 
• Professional experience working effectively with individuals from a variety of backgrounds and perspectives, demonstrating strong interpersonal skills and ability to build trusting relationships;
• Working knowledge of and ability to meet or exceed customer service needs and expectations and maintain productive, long-term relationships with staff and patrons; 
• Excellent oral and written communication skills; extensive proficiency in the ability to utilize practices, tools, and techniques for developing manuals and corresponding with customers.
• Working knowledge of and ability to:
  
  • Utilize basic office support software (word processing, email, presentation software and spreadsheets)
  • Operate effectively within a highly regulated team environment.

Desired Qualifications:

• Basic knowledge and understanding of the professionalism and intensity necessary to successfully contribute to a Division I athletics program;
• Minimum of two years of full-time experience working in an NCAA Division I event management unit;
• Demonstrated experience in effectively training and managing temporary, student and volunteer staff to ensure day-to-day operations and day-of-event operations run smoothly;
• Demonstrated event management experience (both regular and championship seasons) working with the sports of Field Hockey, Gymnastics, Softball, Swimming & Diving, Tennis and/or football is highly desired.

Application Process: Visit our website at http://jobs.uiowa.edu and search for keywords “Event Management”. Only applications submitted at https://jobs.uiowa.edu will be accepted.

• Job openings are posted for a minimum of 14 calendar days and may be removed from posting and filled any time after the original posting period has ended. 
• Applicants must upload a resume and cover letter and mark them as a relevant file to the submission.  Applications without both a cover letter and resume will be considered incomplete and ineligible for consideration. 
• Job openings are posted for a minimum of 14 calendar days and may be removed from posting and filled any time after the original posting period has ended. 
• Successful candidates will be subject to a credential/education verification and criminal background check and be required to self-disclose any conviction history. 
• Five professional references will be requested at a later step in the recruitment process. 
• As a part of the University of Iowa’s review of your application and consistent with its policies and practices, the University may access and/or view information about you that is job-related and publicly available on the internet, including but not limited to information on social media sites. The access, viewing and/or use of such information is governed by the University’s Policy on Human Rights, as well as state and federal law.
• For questions or additional information, please contact tanner-erwin@uiowa.edu.