Meeting Events jobs in Greystones, County Wicklow

Responsible for the development and delivery of public engagement activities, ensuring these align with Festina Lente's nature connection ethos, seasonal approach and wider organisational vision.

This includes planning and coordinating mainstream public-facing events and visitor experiences, including family events, birthday parties, seasonal celebrations, visitor experiences, tours, venue hire activities, ceremonies, community events, and arts-based activities.

Position Goals are:

To successfully coordinate mainstream public-facing events and visitor experiences, complementing our existing specialist therapeutic, wellbeing and educational events and programmes.

To generate new business opportunities and revenue streams to support the work of Festina Lente in the community.

To work closely with other departments including Social Therapeutic Horticulture and the Equestrian Learning Centre to support their on-site events.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

Event Management

• Manage public engagement events from planning and preparation to event delivery and clean down.
• Facilitate events directly, such as birthday parties, school tours, garden tours, and wreath making.
• Enhance current event processes for scheduling, bookings, invoicing, filtering and responding to enquiries, and managing resources/materials, risk assessments, consent forms, and follow-up.
• Manage incoming event enquiries and direct specialist enquiries to the relevant internal teams.
• Manage volunteers to ensure the smooth running of events for participants.
• As required, support the scheduling, promotion, and bookings of Festina Lente’s specialist team on-site events (such as equine events or the Social Therapeutic Horticulture team’s therapeutic, wellbeing, horticultural, herbal, nature-connection, body movement, and holistic outdoor wellbeing programmes).

Business Development

• Collaborate with key colleagues from across the departments, in particular Social Therapeutic Horticulture and the Equestrian ü Learning Centre, to plan and schedule events, and manage the yearly events calendar.
• Develop new events (e.g. celebration, recreation, visitor experience, and community engagement events) and work with external facilitators, while supporting consistency with organisational values.
• Build a pipeline to increase event attendance.

Promotion

• Work closely with the Communications Manager to maximise opportunities to promote our year-round calendar of events.
• Work closely with the Communications Manager to manage Eventbrite listings and ticketing.
• Bring regular ideas for promoting events in the community.

Analytics and Reporting

• Track attendance and income generated to demonstrate commercial value to support the ongoing work of Festina Lente.
• Collect and analyse customer data/feedback and interactions to improve future events.
• Regularly report progress and growth to the Communications Manager.

Training and Development

• Attend all designated training workshops as it pertains to skills development.
• Actively participate in team meetings.

Health & Safety and Safeguarding

• Complying with all the Health & Safety and Safeguarding requirements of the organisation and current legislation.

Other Duties

• To undertake any other reasonable duties which may be assigned by the CEO.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Flexible, with availability to manage events over weekends and holiday periods.
• Proven experience coordinating events, ideally for families, schools, or community groups.
• Highly organised, able to juggle multiple projects and timelines simultaneously.
• Excellent communicator who is confident, warm, welcoming, and comfortable independently leading groups of children and adults of all abilities.
• Creative, with a commercial mindset and a flair for spotting opportunities.
• Good communicator and great teammate who collaborates well with staff, suppliers, and other facilitators.
• Comfortable with online booking and ticketing platforms, and familiarity with Canva and CRM software.

Education and Experience

Desired: Degree or Diploma in Events Management, Marketing, Hospitality, Business or Tourism. 2-3 years relevant experience. Strong computer literacy skills. Full, clean drivers licence.

Pay: €32,000.00-€40,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Bike to work scheme
• Employee assistance program
• On-site parking

Work Location: In person