Job Description
This position is responsible for planning, coordinating, implementing, and evaluating a wide range of large- and small-scale citywide and community special events and programs, both indoor and outdoor.
Key Responsibilities
- Plan, develop, coordinate, and evaluate citywide special events, programs, and recreational activities
- Supervise assigned staff, including hiring, training, scheduling, evaluating performance, and providing coaching and discipline
- Collaborate with city departments, community groups, vendors, and stakeholders to plan and execute events
- Develop event concepts, activities, sponsorships, entertainment, and programming for diverse audiences
- Design and coordinate promotional and marketing materials using various media platforms
- Oversee event safety, permitting, compliance, and incident reporting, ensuring adherence to city policies and regulations
- Manage contracts, vendors, entertainment, concessions, and service providers, including negotiation and selection
- Monitor budgets, approve expenditures, review invoices and payroll, and support annual budget development
- Collect, analyze, and maintain data, records, and reports related to programs and events
- Coordinate logistics for citywide events, ceremonial programs, and special initiatives
- Maintain equipment, supplies, and inventory; place orders as needed
- Provide excellent customer service and respond to public inquiries and concerns
- Attend meetings, trainings, and professional development opportunities; represent the department at public presentations
- Support special event permitting, compliance, and work order processes
- Perform other duties as assigned
The City of Chesapeake offers an exceptional range of benefits. Please browse our Benefits Brochure, for a full list of benefits and employee perks.
This position is responsible for planning, coordinating, implementing, and evaluating a wide range of large- and small-scale citywide and community special events and programs, both indoor and outdoor.
Key Responsibilities
- Plan, develop, coordinate, and evaluate citywide special events, programs, and recreational activities
- Supervise assigned staff, including hiring, training, scheduling, evaluating performance, and providing coaching and discipline
- Collaborate with city departments, community groups, vendors, and stakeholders to plan and execute events
- Develop event concepts, activities, sponsorships, entertainment, and programming for diverse audiences
- Design and coordinate promotional and marketing materials using various media platforms
- Oversee event safety, permitting, compliance, and incident reporting, ensuring adherence to city policies and regulations
- Manage contracts, vendors, entertainment, concessions, and service providers, including negotiation and selection
- Monitor budgets, approve expenditures, review invoices and payroll, and support annual budget development
- Collect, analyze, and maintain data, records, and reports related to programs and events
- Coordinate logistics for citywide events, ceremonial programs, and special initiatives
- Maintain equipment, supplies, and inventory; place orders as needed
- Provide excellent customer service and respond to public inquiries and concerns
- Attend meetings, trainings, and professional development opportunities; represent the department at public presentations
- Support special event permitting, compliance, and work order processes
- Perform other duties as assigned
The City of Chesapeake offers an exceptional range of benefits. Please browse our Benefits Brochure, for a full list of benefits and employee perks.
About City of Chesapeake
Chesapeake, Virginia is a vibrant community that enjoys the best of two worlds, one of urban variety, culture, and excitement, and another of rural landscapes and relaxed living.
Located 20 minutes from the oceanfront, 15 minutes from downtown Norfolk, and 45 minutes from Colonial Williamsburg and the Outer Banks of North Carolina, Chesapeake is the perfect place in which to live, work, and raise a family.
Home to beautiful parks, lakes, and rivers, Chesapeake has more miles of deepwater canals (part of the Intracoastal Waterway) than any other city in the country!
The City of Chesapeake was formed through the merger of the City of South Norfolk and Norfolk County in 1963. It’s a community of communities, with each having its own distinctive history.
Over the last decade, many national and international companies have taken advantage of the City’s ports, atmosphere, and highly qualified labor market by relocating to Chesapeake.
Chesapeake’s neighborhoods offer a variety of comfortable housing alternatives, from apartments and town homes, to single-family residences and executive homes. The City is consistently ranked by the FBI as one of the safest U.S. cities (with populations over 150,000), which lends to the safe, community atmosphere that residents enjoy.
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