At Emirates Group, we connect the world through our global hub in Dubai, ensuring our customers always ‘Fly Better.’ As one of the most recognised and admired brands globally, we’re driven by innovation and excellence. Join us as a Office Assistant and experience a fast-paced, multicultural environment where your ideas and expertise will help shape the future of aviation. Here, you’ll grow alongside professionals from diverse backgrounds, contributing to our shared success and making your span on a global stage.

As an Events Officer, your role will be to plan and coordinate the daily operations of events within the Groups event portfolio. This involves working closely with a cross-functional, integrated spaneting communications team to ensure that all events align with and support the Groups overall spaneting strategies.

In this role, you will:

• Assist the Events Manager and Events Specialist in managing the events calendar and projects, from the planning stage to on-site execution.
• Facilitate the invitation process and registration, coordinate on-ground logistics and transportation, source appropriate business promotional cabin crew, arrange hotel accommodations for VIP guests, manage the hospitality guest list, and handle all other necessary arrangements to ensure the smooth operation of events.
• Ensure that brand and business messages are clearly integrated into all aspects of events, including on-site branding and activation, maintaining a consistent approach and adherence to approved brand guidelines.
• Negotiate with suppliers to ensure cost-effective use of departmental budgets and timely delivery of services.
• Coordinate with both internal and external parties and departments, such as Creative Services, Marketing Operations, PR, and Visual Services, to ensure the timely delivery of all event deliverables and elements in accordance with the global brand strategy, events calendar, and regional spaneting communications strategy. This includes implementing the defined social media strategy as appropriate.
• Manage supplier performance to ensure they meet corporate standards and cost control measures, ensuring high-quality delivery in line with corporate expectations.
• Act as a consultant to advise and guide outstations or Business Units on local requirements and expectations for events, ensuring compliance with the global events strategy and regional spaneting communications strategy.
• Complete pre-event and post-event reports with recommendations for improvements, providing a full evaluation of the initiative or activity. Ensure that feedback, ideas, and issues are communicated to the Events team.
• Stay up-to-date with the systems used by the Events team and company for various requirements, including AGILE, IPROC, Aurora, invitation systems, and OneDrive.
• Maintain organized documentation of each project, ensuring smooth functioning of all activities and keeping records in a shared OneDrive for easy access and retrieval.

To be considered for this role, you must meet the below requirements:

• 5+ years of experience in Marketing & Media Communication.

You will have an edge if you have:

• Professional knowledge of the event work in a multi-national company.
• The jobholder must be a proficient communicator and negotiator.
• Must be an adaptable individual, must work exceptionally well under pressure to meet exacting deadlines and high volume.
• Must also be able to project manage events and simultaneously manage a variety of issues.
• Additionally, a highly competent organiser with the ability to prioritise objectively is required.
• Supervisory skills are also required since the jobholder needs to effectively be able to get results of the suppliers staff during an event.

At Emirates Group, we’re committed to providing our employees with opportunities to grow and develop their careers. If you’re looking for a challenging and rewarding opportunity, apply today and join our team!

Join us in Dubai and enjoy an attractive tax-free salary and travel benefits that are exclusive to our industry, including discounts on flights and hotel stays worldwide.

Discover what it’s like to live and work in our fast-paced, cosmopolitan home city by visiting the Dubai Lifestyle section on our career’s website: www.emirates.com/careers.