Event Coordinator Event Manager

• Independently manage your own projects, and work in a team with colleagues on larger productions.
• Guide a project from briefing to evaluation.
• Build convincing proposals: concept, approach, planning, and budget in one story.
• Think strategically and creatively about form, course, and experience.
• Create realistic plans, budgets, scripts, and production schedules.
• Coordinate suppliers, locations, technology, catering, scenography, crew, and artists.
• Monitor planning, quality, budget, and client expectations.
• Be the point of contact for your project or sub-project, from the first conversation to billing.
• Lead internal and external teams during preparation, setup, and execution on location.
• Anticipate what might go wrong, and calmly resolve what does go wrong.
• Critically review each project and help refine the approach.
• Report to the Project Manager or Project Director.

• At least 3 years of experience, preferably in an agency environment.
• Knowledge of how to create proposals and keep a project on track.
• Experience in managing projects from A to Z.
• Creative, with a convincing writing style to sell ideas on paper.
• Commercially oriented, with a good sense of client needs.
• Strong in project management, maintaining an overview even when many things are moving simultaneously.
• Smooth communication with clients, colleagues, and suppliers.
• Stress-resistant and solution-oriented, with a hands-on mentality.
• Eye for detail, without losing sight of the bigger picture.
• Flexible mindset, as events also take place in the evenings and on weekends.
• More than just an executor: you contribute ideas and inspire.
• Team player.
• Dutch-speaking, and fluent in French and English.

This role starts as a temporary contract, with the prospect of permanent employment in the long term.