Position Title: Event Specialist
Reports to: Director, Conferences and Events
Status: Twelve (12) month full-time contract
Location: Work from home in the Greater Toronto Area. Involves some travel.
Closing Date: January 31, 2025 (or until position is filled)
Start Date: February 24, 2025
Salary Range: $55,000 – $60,000
You are motivated. You are a self-starter. You enjoy managing and planning events with a keen interest in customer needs, event technology and building programs. You are a seasoned event professional who has managed many events from concept to execution with positive results. You enjoy learning about new event possibilities including new online event platforms, and strive to ensure your events continue to evolve year over year by bringing your new ideas to the planning.
Overview of the position
Digital Health Canada is looking for a seasoned Event Specialist with strong communication and collaboration skills, solid organizational skills, and proven event planning experience. The Events Specialist will be responsible for sourcing speakers, suppliers and venues and working with committees to create programming. The Events Specialist will attend some in-person events over the twelve-month contract and in some instances will be the lead for the event. Reporting to the Director, Conferences and Events, this is a twelve (12) month full-time contract.
Digital Health Canada is committed to diversity, inclusion, and equity in connection with our vision, mission, values, and pillars. We strive to develop a team that reflects the diversity of the Canadian health ecosystem and the Digital Health Canada 7,000+ professional members community. We actively welcome nominations and candidates who are Black, Indigenous, LGBTQIA2S+, or living with disability, as well as People of Colour or members of other racialized and marginalized groups. The successful candidate must be an independent self-starter with excellent time management, problem-solving, and communication skills.
Key Responsibilities
The Events Specialist is responsible for planning and executing events. The Specialist will:
- Manage conferences/meetings/special events both virtually and in-person
- Liaise directly with staff, committee members, partners and vendors
- Co-ordinate all logistical aspects of meetings such as: Venue selection; Source and review vendor contracts; Cost projection and budget analysis for each event; Online registration/event management; Meeting room set-ups; Audio visual requirements; Catering arrangements/menu selection; On-site registration; Supplier and vendor management; Prepare and deliver detailed weekly, monthly, and quarterly reports to management and team members
Desired Skills and Experience
The successful candidate must be able to hit the ground running and be ready to immerse themselves in the Canadian digital health community. The successful Events Specialist is passionate about planning and delivering quality events and ensuring a superior member event experience.
Candidates should possess:
- Minimum of five to seven years’ experience in event planning (experience with managing multiple events simultaneously)
- Experience working with volunteer committees
- Experience with web-based event management/registration tool
- Ability to work under time pressure and deal effectively with stress
- Ability to multi-task in a fast-paced environment and set priorities
- Excellent organizational and time management skills
- Accuracy and attention to detail
- Ability to work independently
- Excellent problem-solving skills
- Creativity, flexibility, and a positive attitude
- Flexibility to work overtime and travel to attend on-site meetings when required
- Proven ability to develop and maintain professional relationships with external and internal stakeholders
- Demonstrated ability to work with people at all levels of the organization
- Self-motivated and entrepreneurial with a proven ability to work independently
- Advanced computer skills in MS Word, Excel & Outlook
Process
- Apply by email using the subject line “Event Specialist3” before January 31, 2025, to: HR@digitalhealthcanada.com
- Interviews will begin the week of February 10, 2025. Start date is February 24, 2025
To be considered, submissions MUST include the following:
- Email subject line “Event Specialist3”
- ONE DOCUMENT attached that contains a) Cover letter with summary of relevant experience and statement of candidate’s ability to work remotely (private space, Wi-Fi, phone) and b) Resume. Both Cover Letter and Resume must be combined into one single document.
About Digital Health Canada
Digital Health Canada is a Canadian not-for-profit professional association with over 7,000 members across the country. Our members are a diverse community of accomplished, influential professionals working to make a difference in advancing healthcare through information technology. Digital Health Canada fosters network growth and connection; brings together ideas from multiple segments for incubation and advocacy; supports members through professional development at the individual and organizational level; and advocates for the Canadian digital health industry.
Members are supported by the Digital Health Canada National Office team. Together, the team develops and delivers the networking and professional development services that create value for our members: events and webinars, resources, thought leadership, and education and certification. Team members work remotely, collaborating through online chat, virtual conferences, and weekly in-person team meetings in downtown Toronto.
DIGITAL HEALTH CANADA TEAM VALUES – “We Connect with Intention”
1. PRACTICE A GROWTH MINDSET
2. TEAMWORK & COLLABORATION – WORK TOGETHER, OWN YOUR WORK
3. COMMUNICATE FEARLESSLY & BUILD TRUST
4. DARE TO BE DIFFERENT: make an impact and leverage diverse perspectives
5. INNOVATE THROUGH EXPERIMENTATION: have an entrepreneurial spirit