Events Co-ordinator

This exciting opportunity is available in our Communications and Events Department at Santam Alice Lane office in Sandton. We require the skills of an individual who has a passion for events management and managing sponsorship activation on a national and regional level.

What will you do?

• Complete coordination and management of all events
• Budget management for the event
• Brand awareness and visibility
• Taking briefs from internal clients & stakeholders
• Briefing the Design Hub on all creative elements for events – invitations, menus, nametags

Qualification and Experience

• Matric
• Diploma in Events / PR / Marketing / Communications
• 5-8 years of experience

Requirements:

• Must have reliable transport
• Able to work extended hours and over weekends for event management

Knowledge and Skills

• Excellent project management skills
• Solid understanding of events processes, protocol and legalities
• Organizational skills
• Excel
• PowerPoint
• Time management
• Stress management

Core Competencies

• Drives Results
• Customer Focus
• Communication
• Accountability / Time management

Our commitment to transformation

Santam is the market leader in the general insurance industry in Southern Africa. We are a large, diversified, expanding and transforming company and whilst based in South Africa, we are rapidly moving into a number of emerging markets, both in Africa and Asia.

Our success is rooted in our passion for our clients and everything we do is centered on our delivery of Insurance Good and Proper. We’re about people. People drive our business so it follows that we want to recruit the best people possible whether they work for us permanently or for a short time as temporary employees.

At Santam we are committed to transformation and embracing diversity. This commitment is what drives us to achieve a diverse workplace with employment equity as a key goal to create an inclusive workforce, representative of the demographics of our society. In achieving our employment equity goals we give preference to applicants from the designated groups in alignment with the Divisions Employment Equity targets.