About the Wichita Wind Surge:
The Wichita Wind Surge, Double-A affiliate of the Minnesota Twins, bring competitive baseball and vibrant community engagement to Riverfront Stadium. As a cornerstone of Wichita sports, the Wind Surge create memorable experiences for fans of all ages. The Wichita Wind Surge are a proud member club of Diamond Baseball Holdings (DBH). DBH was formed in 2021 to support, promote, and enhance Minor League Baseball through best practices, professional management, innovation, and investment.
The Manager, Special Events is responsible for generating non-game day event revenue by prospecting, selling, planning, organizing, and executing events for the Wichita Wind Surge. These events could include, but are not limited to: third-party events, winter festivals, meetings, parties, receptions, concerts, trade shows, banquets, and more.
The Special Events Department collaborates with appropriate staff from other departments to facilitate these events including Entertainment, Operations, Marketing, Ticketing, and Facilities regarding staffing, security, technical arrangements, and other applicable services where and when necessary.
Responsibilities
- Responsible for continuous lead generation and the sales process for all events in an effort to maximize revenue
- Must be prepared to plan, organize, schedule, market, implement, and coordinate events at the Ballpark
- Initiate deployment and logistics for private and public events by communicating and working with other departments to ensure complete event functionality, safety, and success
- Generate customizable proposals and presentations within assigned deadlines, including written copy and design concept elements
- Maintain assigned budget, ensuring approval of all final billings for payments. Prepare sales and financial reports
- Supervise and coordinate staff for all events, including both part-time and volunteer staff
- Identify new special event and outreach opportunities through research, networking and prospecting
- Develop marketing strategies, press releases, and creative content and copy pertaining to internal events
- Represent yourself in a manner that is in line with the core values of the organization
Minimum Qualifications
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills as well as the ability to work in a fast-paced environment and manage multiple tasks.
- Outstanding computer skills including MS Office products are necessary
- Must be able to work holidays, evenings, and weekends.
- 2 - 4 years of related experience with a working knowledge of local and/or regional markets, event or venue operations, sales or marketing in the event industry is required.
- Bachelor's degree in business, facility/hospitality/sport management or similar.
- Ability to learn all video board and sound related equipment and basic functions.
We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, disability, gender identity, marital or veteran status, or any other protected class.
