Meeting/Event Director jobs in Mesa, AZ
Meeting/Event Director directs the overall planning and strategy for live or virtual meetings and events for an organization. Defines the goals, success metrics, and messaging for events. Being a Meeting/Event Director implements best practices and develops planning standards, policies. and procedures. Additionally, Meeting/Event Director develops a network of vendors. Approves the final selection of venues, catering, technology, and other event support services. Reviews and approves contracts and has overall responsibility for ensuring events stay within budget. Typically requires a bachelor's degree. Typically reports to top management. The Meeting/Event Director typically manages through subordinate managers and professionals in larger groups of moderate complexity. Provides input to strategic decisions that affect the functional area of responsibility. May give input into developing the budget. To be a Meeting/Event Director typically requires 3+ years of managerial experience. Capable of resolving escalated issues arising from operations and requiring coordination with other departments. (Copyright 2024 Salary.com)
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Director of Infrastructure (IT Director)
- Maricopa Community College District
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Tempe, AZ
FULL_TIME
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Director of Infrastructure (IT Director)
Job ID: 319796
Location: District Support Services Cntr
Full/Part Time: Full Time
Regular/Temporary: Regular
Salary Range
$106,539.00 - $138,500.50/annually, DOE
Grade
125
Work Schedule
Monday - Friday, 8am - 5pm
Summer Hours: Monday - Thursday, 7am-6pm
Work Calendar
12 Months
Maricopa Summary
Are you looking for a place to work where you can make a real difference in the lives of over 200,000 college students every year?
Would you like to be part of an organization that adds $7.2 billion dollars to the economy and supports nearly 100,000 jobs in the fastest growing county in the United States?
Whether you're teaching, working, or learning Make It Happen At Maricopa County Community Colleges!
About Us- Many of our campuses have received grant awards through the to improve undergraduate STEM Education: Hispanic-Serving institutions program (HSI Program).
- Commitment to diversity, inclusion, equity and employee groups to create an environment of shared governance
- One of the largest community college systems in the country
- 2020 Healthy Arizona Worksites Program recipient
- Named 19th Best Employer for Women by Forbes
- 2019 No. 42 in Arizona's Best Employers
Benefits
The Maricopa County Community College District (MCCCD) is committed to providing you with a competitive, comprehensive benefits program that provides the care you and your family need to lead healthy and productive lives. Our benefits are designed to provide support for every life stage and lifestyle in our community.- 20 paid observed holidays
- ) & 12% Employee Contribution Match (Pension, Long Term Disability, and Health Insurance)
- Paid vacation, sick, and personal time
- Maricopa Employee Store: Perks & Gears (exclusive discounts and offers for Maricopa Community Colleges faculty and staff)
- Annual professional development growth funding
- Tuition reimbursement for employees and dependents
- Flexible work schedules
- Maricopa Employee Health & Wellness Program:
- Sight-On-Site Eye Care Services
- Diabetes Empowerment Education Program
- Mobile On-site Mammography Screenings
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Wondr online program that teaches clinically-proven, healthy habits that lead to less stress, better sleep, weight loss, and more
- Pre-Retirement Events
- (may forgive the remaining balance on a federal student loan made directly by the U.S. Department of Education after qualifying).
- 10 Maricopa Affinity Resource Employee Groups (Celebrates diversity, embraces inclusion, and supports employees, students, and community!)
Job Summary
Information Technology Services (ITS) is seeking a strategic and proactive Director of Infrastructure. The Director of Infrastructure provides leadership, technical expertise, and strategic direction for the organization's technical infrastructure teams: Networking, Database, Telecommunications, and Cloud Services/Systems. This position is responsible for evaluating current and future enterprise infrastructure needs as well as managing the related staff and budget. The infrastructure director should have knowledge of current technology best practices as well as innovative ways to meet organizational goals while maintaining focus on secure implementations.
Come be a part of an award-winning organization and technology team.
Maricopa is a great place to work! in 2023. Additionally, Forbes ranked MCCCD as the #69 Best Employer for Women in August 2022, placing it at #5 in higher education.
Essential Functions
20% - Provides IT leadership, goal-setting, planning, direction, and overall operational oversight for selection, implementation, and maintenance of all infrastructure-related projects and initiatives, assuring the quality of services, secure implementations, and develops departmental metrics and analysis; ensures the consistency and maintainability of existing IT Services by creating, maintaining, and enforcing standards and procedures
20% - Provides Information Technology leadership and operational direction for IT Managers, System Engineers/Administrators, and assigned staff; plans, organizes, assigns, supervises, reviews, and evaluates the work of staff
20% - Directs planning and collaboration with customers and peers to assess needs; develops, refines, and/or implements advanced technology solutions to meet business needs; provides overall IT leadership and guidance and serves as college and districtwide subject matter expert on various technologies
20% - Directs and administers budgets and expenditures; identifies and allocates resource needs for Infrastructure related IT projects and services
15% - Works closely with vendors to develop relationships and partnerships; procures technology and services; performs cost/benefit analysis during the procurement process
5% - Performs other related duties as assigne
Minimum Qualifications
Bachelor's Degree from a regionally accredited institution in any degree and six (6) years of professional experience in an Infrastructure role, which includes two (2) years of supervisory experience.
OR
Associate's Degree from a regionally accredited institution in any degree and eight (8) years of professional experience in an Infrastructure role, which includes two (2) years of supervisory experience.
OR
High School Diploma or G.E.D. and ten (10) years of professional experience in an Infrastructure role, which includes two (2) years of supervisory experience.
Desired Qualifications
A. Experience managing an Information Technology Service department, preferably in a higher education environment
B. Experience leading a team in an environment with high-availability infrastructure; examples may include servers, storage, databases, disaster recovery, virtualization, data center, operations monitoring, network communications and/or managed/cloud services
C. Hands-on experience in systems engineering (VMWare, Windows Server, Linux Server, Azure, AWS), networking (Cisco experience preferred), and/or network security
D. Experience managing large, complex technology projects
E. Current, industry certification in technology-related fields (e.g. ITIL, Security, CISCO, Microsoft, AWS, Azure, Linux)
F. Experience analyzing and overseeing the analysis of SLAs (Service Level Agreements)
Special Working Conditions
The position is located in Tempe, AZ, with occasional in-person meetings.
MCCCD does not sponsor individuals for any type of work visas.
May be required to sit for a prolonged period of time; viewing a computer monitor
How to Apply
Applicants are strongly encouraged to submit a cover letter that details how the applicant meets the minimum and desired qualifications. A cover letter may further highlight an applicant's knowledge, skill and abilities. All minimum requirements must be met at the time of the application.
Additional materials will not be accepted after the job posting has closed.
Missing materials or incomplete employment history will not be considered.
Please ensure your materials clearly provide the following information.- Clearly illustrate how prior experience, knowledge and education meet the minimum and desired qualifications for this position.
- Indicate whether former or current employment is Full-Time or;
- Part-Time employment (must include number of hours worked)
- Provide employment history in a month/year format (e.g., 09/07 to 10/11) including job title, job duties, for each position held and name of employer for each position.
- Three professional references, preferably current and/or former supervisors. If references are not provided in resume upon application, they will be requested at time of interview.
Posting Close Date
Open until filled
First Review March 25, 2024
Applications received after the review date may not be screened
EEO, Title IX, & Clery Act
Maricopa County Community College District (MCCCD) will not discriminate, nor tolerate discrimination in employment or education, against any applicant, employee, or student because of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship status (including document abuse), age, disability, veteran status or genetic information.
Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, states: "No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance."
The policy of the MCCCD is to provide an educational, employment, and business environment free of gender discrimination. Incidents of misconduct should be reported to the college Title IX Coordinator, as outlined in policy, contact information is available at this link Title IX Coordinators.
The Clery Act is a Federal law requiring United States Colleges and Universities to disclose information about crime on and around their campuses. Crime reporting data for each of the Maricopa Community Colleges, as required under the Clery Act, is available at this link Clery Act.
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Facilities Director
- FirstService Residential
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Gold Canyon, AZ
FULL_TIME
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- Alliance Defending Freedom Career Center
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FULL_TIME
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Compliance Director
- Wells Fargo
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Tempe, AZ
FULL_TIME
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Director of Operations
- Senior Helpers of Tempe
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Tempe, AZ
FULL_TIME
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- QISG
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Scottsdale, AZ
FULL_TIME
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- Pei Wei
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Management Trainee
- Innovative Promotions
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Executive Administrative Assistant - Communications
- Cornerstone Church
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Chandler, AZ
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- 4/18/2024 12:00:00 AM
Project Manager - Land Development
- Howard Hughes Corporation
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Phoenix, AZ
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- 4/18/2024 12:00:00 AM
Preconstruction Manager
- McShane Construction Company LLC
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Paradise Valley, AZ
- McShane Construction is seeking an experienced Preconstruction Manager for primarily multifamily and commercial projects...
- 4/18/2024 12:00:00 AM
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- Pei Wei
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Phoenix, AZ
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- 4/15/2024 12:00:00 AM
Manager
- AMC Theatres
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Mesa, AZ
- Job Description PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS One year experience in guest-focused business (e.g. retail, restaurant, hospita...
- 4/15/2024 12:00:00 AM
Plasma Center Manager
- Grifols
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Mesa, AZ
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- 4/12/2024 12:00:00 AM
About Mesa, Arizona
Mesa (/ˈmeɪsə/ MAY-sə) is a city in Maricopa County, in the U.S. state of Arizona. It is a suburb located about 20 miles (32 km) east of Phoenix in the East Valley section of the Phoenix Metropolitan Area. It is bordered by Tempe on the west, the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community on the north, Chandler and Gilbert on the south along with Queen Creek, and Apache Junction on the east.
Mesa is the largest suburban city by population in the United States, the third-largest city in Arizona after Phoenix and Tucson, and the 36th-largest city overall in the US. The city is home to 496,401 pe...
Source: Wikipedia (as of 04/11/2019). Read more from Wikipedia
Income Estimation for Meeting/Event Director jobs
$138,213 to $185,844
Mesa, Arizona area prices
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