Sandton: Events Co-Ordinator posted by Career Custodians

About the Role

We are seeking an Events Co-ordinator to join our team at Career Custodians in Sandton. As a key member of our events team, you will be responsible for driving sales and developing the Events and Group Play segments. You will lead the team in achieving operational goals while providing comprehensive support to clients for all event and group play needs. Additionally, you will assist the Club Manager in hosting and facilitating Padel activities.

Key Responsibilities

• Superior knowledge of all operational assets, venues and details to ensure thorough sales and planning of events
• Customer and Personal Service – Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services

• Customer needs assessment

• Meeting quality standards for services

• Evaluation of customer satisfaction

• Keep up to date with latest trends
• Knowledge of Events Management standard procedures and practices

• The events department is responsible for the coordination of all event and group bookings

• Assisting with product development

• Updating and development of menus, imagery, packages, preferred suppliers and client database

• Weekly reporting to Club Manager
• Ensure all enquiries are responded to speedily, efficiently, correctly and in a professional manner
• Ensure maximum occupancy of venues and sales
• Being the first point of contact for the client

• All client correspondence

• Drawing up function sheets

• On the day coordination

• Ensure all coordination, billing and event procedures are adhered to according to company procedures and policies
• Ensure all client requirements are met
• Ensuring guest satisfaction at all times
• Knowledge of exceptional client service and the ability to perform accordingly
• Ability to meet quality standards and ability to evaluate customer satisfaction
• Assist in managing the relationships with key external suppliers
• Develop close working relationships with key functions and internal suppliers
• Stock control of operational and par levels
• Ensure proper stock controls or maintained
• Monthly stock takes of all Operational Equipment
• Meticulous coordination of all details of events to clients satisfaction
• Investigate and resolve complaints
• Maintain the agreed upon Aesthetics Manual and implement accordingly
• Be familiar with regular customers and walk-in cliental
• Training and testing of staff
• Understanding the court booking schedule for the day
• Welcoming of guests to the club, briefing them on court/club rules and guiding them to their court
• Proactively assist customers of the club based on their needs.
• Manage court bookings and ensure customer times are not over extended
• Assist customers with ball collections in and around the courts
• Assist with ad-hoc Padel Play with customers in event of player shortage or to drive court engagement
• Introduction of Padel and NSP WhatsApp Community Group
• Introduction of Padel rules and how to play the game
• Assisting with photo content creation for marketing purposes
• Ensuring all serviced court bookings are fully paid
• Assist with customer queries on site and on the club phone
• Daily cleaning of the court glass during times of no customer bookings
• Daily sweeping of the court turf to ensure gradual sand distribution
• Ensure netting tension is aligned with prescribed tension standards
• Ensure that the padel club is clean and neat to host customers and spectators
• Ensure that bins at the padel club are emptied and relined with bin liners
• Ensure that furniture is in safe working condition, cleaned and packed into the required position
• Financial management of events

• Ensure costs are kept to a minimum (whilst providing a satisfactory product)

• Awareness of all costs related to an event

• Ensure staff costs are accurate

• Review financial transactions to ensure that expenditures are authorized and budgeted

• Ensure all accounts are charged and followed up accordingly

Requirements

• Grade 12
• 2 to 3 years in similar industry experience

Qualifications

• None mentioned