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Employment turnover (when people leave existing positions).Trends and events affecting overall employment (especially in the industries listed above).The employment outlook in this occupation will be influenced by a wide variety of factors including: Business, Building and Other Support Services.In Alberta, 75% of people employed in this classification work in the following industries: Special event coordinators are part of the larger 2011 National Occupational Classification 1226: Conference and event planners. Experienced special event coordinators who have a broad range of contacts may establish their own companies.

Advancement tends to take the form of being given responsibility for larger, more complex events or moving into supervisory positions as event managers or event producers.

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Those employed full time may have other responsibilities as well.

Conference and event planning companies.

Municipal parks and recreation departments.

Special event coordinators may work on a short-term or permanent basis for:

Preparing and distributing event minutes.

Recruiting, training and motivating staff or volunteers.

Designing and implementing public relations campaigns.

Identifying and selecting appropriate registration, admission controls and guest greetings system for an event.

Negotiating rates with suppliers, controlling expenses and administering financial procedures.

Marketing the event and promoting sponsorships.

Organizing transportation, security and emergency services.

Selecting menus that meet the event's budgetary requirements.

Sourcing speakers and entertainment options.

Preparing strategies to ensure that the event site complies with all required legislation and regulations, including those related to health and safety.

Selecting sites and coordinating building and property services (for example, audiovisual and technical details, decorations, seating).

Identifying the event elements, determining logical sequencing and developing efficient schedules.

Developing or helping to develop a plan, program or agenda.

Negotiate contracts for services, approve invoices, maintain financial records, prepare or review final billing for the event and prepare reports.

Hire, train and supervise volunteers and support staff.

Plan entertainment and social gatherings for participants.

Develop crowd management and risk management systems.

Coordinate decor design and special effects.

Coordinate services (for example, accommodation and transportation for participants, catering, signage, displays, translation services, audiovisual equipment, printing, security) and deal with any problems that arise.

Meet with sponsors and organizing committees to plan the scope and format of events, establish and monitor budgets, review administrative procedures and discuss progress.

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Meet with trade and professional associations and other groups to promote conference, convention and trade show services, and research potential sponsors.Identify the objectives of the event and determine the requirements that must be met to accomplish those objectives (for example, facilities and services).Or be lucky enough to be one of only a handful of people left in an iconic sports venue hours after the last team and the last fan had left the building, watching as the last piece of ticker tape is being swept away.Special event coordinators’ duties vary depending on the nature of the events they organize but, in general, they: Or get the opportunity to drive three hours in an event vehicle with a live turkey riding shotgun, because there was a request to pardon a live turkey for Thanksgiving.

Or PayPal an artist $10,000 while standing in the green room before they would agree to step foot on the stage. Only in a job like this would you get to sing karaoke with a two-hit-wonder pop band or spend $80,000 of someone else's money on fireworks. It's a lot of hours and a lot of craziness, but I would be a liar to say it wasn't also a lot of fun. Once a one-hit-wonder artist pulled a gun on one of our staff members because he had the audacity to roll down the car window in an attempt to air out the smell of weed fuming from the back seat. One time I received a radio call that we had a missing child at an event with about 400,000 people in attendance. There are also a lot of soul-sucking moments, like the time I accidentally ripped an actual hole in an actual painting in an actual museum, in which the actual artist was actually dead.