Event Planner
Etoile Events
Total years of experience :13 years, 7 months
• Designing & creating gifts, giveaways, milestone events, & Researching markets to identify opportunities for events.
• Liaising with clients to ascertain their precise event requirements.
• Producing detailed proposals for events (timelines, venues, suppliers, legal obligations, staffing and budgets).
• Agreeing to, and managing a budget.
• Securing and booking a suitable venue or location.
• Ensuring insurance, legal, health and safety obligations are adhered to.
• Coordinating venue management, caterers, stand designers, contractors and equipment hire.
• Organizing facilities for car parking, traffic control, security, first aid, hospitality and the media.
• Identifying and securing speakers or special guests.
• Planning room layouts and the entertainment program, scheduling workshops and demonstrations.
• Liaising with clients and designers to create a brand for the event and organizing the production of tickets, posters, catalogues and sales brochures, plus social media coverage.
• Coordinating suppliers, handling client queries and troubleshooting on the day of the event to ensure that all runs smoothly.
• Overseeing the dismantling and removal of the event and clearing the venue efficiently.
Post-event evaluation (including data entry and analysis and producing reports for event stakeholders).
Setting a standard for behavior and being a safety role model,
• Providing safety oversight of day-to-day laboratory operations,
• Incorporating safety discussions into lab group meetings for continuous improvement of
best safety practices.
• Liaising with academic staff to discuss timetables, equipment requirements and work plans;
• Running trials of experiments prior to classes and then demonstrating techniques for
experiments;
• Preparing equipment and chemicals before lessons - from test tubes to state-of-the-art
microscopes;
• Maintaining and repairing equipment and laboratory apparatus;
• Record keeping, e.g. for students' practical sessions, tracking methods, results, etc;
• Ensuring that equipment is properly cleaned and that chemicals, drugs and other materials
are appropriately stored;
• Cataloguing recordings and making them available when requested (audiovisual resources);
• Supporting the work of teachers in classes and laboratory sessions and giving technical
advice to staff and students;
• Working with individual students and supporting them on research projects;
• Managing the stock control of chemicals and equipment.
• Perform all administrative, marketing and sales functions.
• Handle duties associated with growing the business of existing clients and getting new
clients to increase the revenue.
• Search for new suppliers that will help grow the business by introducing unique products
and a new line for chocolate in the market.
• Ensure that marketing materials such as brochures meet both the branding goals and the
functional needs for sales.
• Introduce the organization to potential clients through marketing and advertising our
products.
• Coordinate and schedule meetings, review expense reports and manage proposals and
quotations.
• Ensure that the specifications of the clients are understood, and accurately cost and price
new projects.
• Respond to communications in a timely manner and meet their deadlines.
• Complete all papers necessary to facilitate business.
• Responsible for building and maintaining relationships with clients and potential business partners to promote a climate that facilitates future sales for the organization.
As a Lab supervisor, I managed and supervised the lab and its equipment, performed experiments and supported the teachers.
As a Science Teacher, I taught grades 4 and 5 science, prepared lesson plans, activities and data analysis, and attended numerous workshops.
I was responsible for the second grade in maintaining order and discipline, supporting the teachers as well as recording infringements of both students and teachers.
Organized documents and meetings, managed and maintained office systems.