About the job
Summary
King County Parks is offering an exciting short-term temporary opportunity for an Event Coordinator to help bring summer events to life! If you're passionate about event planning and eager to make an impact, this is your chance to be part of an energetic team coordinating some of the season's most exciting public events.
About the Role: This opportunity is perfect for individuals eager to enhance their experience in event management skills while collaborating with event producers, external partners, and Parks staff to plan, support, and coordinate a variety of public events for the 2025 event season. The position will play a key role in coordinating major summer events such as the King County Parks Big Backyard 5k, Snoqualmie Valley Half Marathon, Movies at Marymoor, King County Parks Big Backyard Movies, CHOMP!, Timber! Outdoor Music Festival, the Refuge Outdoor Festival and Beat the Blerch— from the initial planning stages to final execution. This role will also assist with developing criteria and performance metrics to measure the success of each event.
This position performs work remotely and onsite.
About the Team: The Property Management and Business Revenue team drives innovative partnerships and activities that generate earned revenue, while delivering exceptional customer support across the entire parks system. This dynamic unit also plays a key role in managing land use approvals, special use permits, and real estate services, ensuring that a wide variety of activities can thrive on Parks' lands. With a focus on growth and sustainability, this team helps bring exciting opportunities to the community, all while protecting and enhancing the value of park properties.
Commitment to Equity, Racial and Social Justice: King County, named after Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., is a diverse and vibrant community that represents cultures from around the world. Our True North is to create a welcoming community where everyone can thrive. We prioritize equity, racial and social justice, making it a foundational and daily expectation for all employees. As an Event Coordinator you will actively apply these principles in all aspects of your work. Learn more about our commitment at http://www.kingcounty.gov/equity.
Job Duties
What You Will Be Doing:
- Coordinate the planning and implementation of third-party special events details including event partner relationships, facilitating planning meetings, overseeing budgets and coordinating event logistics.
- Ensure all event deliverables are reviewed, submitted, and executed by third-party event partner in a timely manner.
- Facilitate event planning meetings and provide guidance to Parks staff and/or volunteers involved in event planning and execution.
- Maintain the event’s timeline, budget, progress, status, and post event summary.
- Attend events and perform in a leadership role to oversee activities and ensure fulfillment of contractual obligations.
- Lead the evaluation and feedback process post-event and create plans to implement changes and improvements.
Experience, Qualifications, Knowledge, Skills
Qualifications You Bring:
- Demonstrated experience working with third-party event producers to plan, coordinate, and execute public events, with a track record of successful facilitation.
- Experience working with and administering third-party event contracts.
- Exceptional organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple tasks concurrently, prioritize effectively, and consistently meet deadlines while maintaining high-quality standards.
- Strong attention to detail, coupled with strong analytical abilities and a proactive approach to problem-solving, ensuring thorough and efficient resolution of challenges.
- Excellent communication and customer service skills to successfully communicate with a wide audience and in varied communication settings.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office 365 Suite, especially Word, Excel, Outlook and Teams.
- Must have a valid driver’s license.
Competencies You Bring
- Customer Focus by building customer relationships and delivering customer-centric solutions.
- Plans and aligns by planning and prioritizing work to meet commitments aligned with organizational goals.
- Communicates Effectively by developing and delivering multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences.
- Manages Conflict by handling conflict situations effectively, with a minimum of noise.
- Drives Results by consistently achieving results, even under tough circumstances.
- Action Oriented by taking on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency, high energy, and enthusiasm.
- Cultivating Innovation by creating new and better ways for the events to be successful.
- Racially Just by identifying and replacing racists systems and structures with pro-equity approaches.
It Would Be Great If You Also Bring
- Experience working in Public Sector event coordination.
Supplemental Information
Working Conditions
- Remote and Onsite Work Details: Employees in this role work remotely from a home location, with onsite reporting requirements based on event needs. The frequency of onsite work is determined by business needs and may be adjusted based on event scheduling. Onsite reporting location will be primarily at Marymoor Park in Redmond WA. This work arrangement promotes work-life-balance and reduces carbon footprint.
- Remote Work Location Requirement: Employees must reside in Washington State and be within a reasonable distance to King County worksites to meet onsite reporting requirements.
- Work Schedule: This full-time position works a 40-hour work week. This position requires working weekends and weeknights and needed. This position is covered under the provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and is overtime eligible.
- Duration: This recruitment aims to fill a Short-term temporary position with an anticipated duration of six month.
Application and Selection Process: We welcome applications from all qualified applicants. We value diversity, diverse perspectives and life experience and encourage people of all backgrounds to apply.
Application materials will be screened for clarity, completeness and alignment with the experience, qualifications, knowledge, and skills essential for this role to determine which candidates may be invited to participate in one or more panel interviews.
To Apply, Submit a
- Complete Application
- Resume (optional, will be reviewed if submitted)
- Cover Letter (optional, will be reviewed if submitted)
Note: Additional documents won't be considered during minimum qualification screening.
Who to Contact: For more information regarding this recruitment, please contact Divya Mathew at [email protected].
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Benefits
King County offers a highly-competitive compensation and benefits package designed to meet the diverse needs of our employees and support our employees' health and well-being. Eligible positions receive the following benefits and have access to the following programs:
- Excellent medical, dental, and vision coverage options: King County provides eligible employees with options, so they can decide what’s best for themselves and their eligible dependents
- Life and disability insurance: employees are provided basic coverage and given the opportunity to purchase additional insurance for both the employee and eligible dependents
- Retirement: eligible King County employees may participate in a pension plan through the Washington State Department of Retirement Systems and a 457(b) deferred-compensation plan
- Transportation program and ORCA transit pass
- 12 paid holidays each year plus two personal holidays
- Generous vacation and paid sick leave
- Paid parental, family and medical, and volunteer leaves
- Flexible Spending Account
- Wellness programs
- Onsite activity centers
- Employee Giving Program
- Employee assistance programs
- Flexible schedules and telecommuting options, depending on position
- Training and career development programs
For additional information about employee benefits, visit our Benefits, Payroll, and Retirement Page.
This is a general description of the benefits offered to eligible King County employees, and every effort has been made to ensure its accuracy. If any information on this document conflicts with the provisions of a collective bargaining agreement (CBA), the CBA prevails.
NOTE: Benefits for Term Limited Temporary (TLT) or Short Term Temporary (STT) positions, including leave eligibility and/or participation in the pension plan through the Washington State Department of Retirement Systems, will vary based upon the terms and details of the position. Short Term Temporary positions are not eligible for an ORCA transit pass.
For inquiries about the specifics of this position, please contact the recruiter identified on this job posting.
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Are you applying to this position as an eligible current or previous King County Employee Priority Placement Program Participant? AND Is this position the same or lower percentage of full-time when compared to the position held at the point of the notification of layoff? AND Do you possess the skills and abilities to qualify for this position?
- Yes, I was given a layoff notice from my Career Service role at King County and I am within two years of the effective date of my layoff. Additionally, the position I was laid off from was the same or a higher percentage of FT status when compared to this one.
- No.
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If you answered yes to the question above and you are applying for this position as a Priority Placement Participant, to be considered, you must provide the following three pieces of information in the space provided: 1. The title you held when you received your layoff notice 2. The department you worked in 3. The effective date of your layoff
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Please describe your experience in third-party event coordination and management. If you do not have this experience, please indicate N/A
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Please describe your experience in customer service and how if relates to the job duties of this position. If you do not have this experience, please indicate N/A.
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Please indicate which Microsoft Suite applications you have experience using:
- MS Word
- MS Outlook
- MS Teams
- MS SharePoint
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