Catering Event Manager
📋 Role Overview & Responsibilities
This role handles all the onsite catering and event planning for events.
There are typically 45 events a year. 15-18 of them are dinners that have been auctioned off at charity events and the others are full scale events such as charity functions. Smaller events might include wine dinners for 10 guests. There may be 2-3 weddings per year.
Responsibilities:planningVisual planning and orderingand securing all rental equipment neededand organize all set up and tear down needsevents calendarlocation do’s and don’t (s)perform all walkthroughs and onsite meetings with client and vendors and all cleaning crewswork with full time chef and banquet captain, servers, bartender, other staff
Most weeks will be 30-35 hours but it may be inconsistent. Example: during early spring there are very few events because of spring break or other community wide events.
Comprehensive training will be provided
Tear down from weekend events will always be on Monday. The site will be off limits for tear down on weekends as the owners use the site. Other needs can be met Tuesdays through Thursdays such as walkthroughs.
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