Event planner and coordinator

Salary Competitive

Looking for ways you can save the world? Do you love creating amazing events and truly connecting with people? Then this is for you! think.dk is a knowledge platform, event project space and co-creative community that aims to accelerate change of society towards a sustainable way of living. In our first 2 years we hosted more than 300 events, and now we’re ready for the next level - help us grow by planning and coordinating our events and be part of the change you want so see in the world!


Responsibilities:

  • Event planning, design and hosting while keeping an overview on deadlines and time limitations - always in communication with the rest of the team
  • Communicating with members to engage and support their event hosting here at the Center
  • Ensure a balance of our schedule related to our focus areas 

Key Tasks:

The position is expected to require 10-15 hours a week. It includes:

  • Research on relevance of new event ideas and potential opportunities
  • Collect feedback & testimonials
  • Evaluate events’ success and keep track of event repertoire development
  • Support our members in event planning, defining & hosting
  • Cooperate with the team to promote and publicize event.

Environment:

  • You will work in an office at think.dk in Østerbro, that you share with the small team 
  • Your working hours will be flexible within 09:00 and 22:00 - depending on your preferences
  • You should bring your own laptop
  • You will have access to a kitchen, free tea & coffee and can join think.dk events for free

Skills Required:

  • Excellent verbal communication in English, Danish would be a strong plus
  • Self Management - you’re able to set tasks for yourself and achieve them when you say.
  • Stress resistance and the ability to see the bigger picture
  • Paying attention to details!
  • Experience in event hosting is a big plus
  • Experience with Trello and Slack is an advantage

Duration: 15.01.2019 - 15.06.2019, with a potential extension if desired.

Our goal is to:

  • plan, coordinate & host our broad range of sustainability related events to the satisfaction of everyone involved, while having a great time and growing the number of attendees by 20%
  • are comfortable with a high degree of responsibility and independence - roles at think.dk are granular, which means that instead of using static job positions people at think.dk fill roles that are created, exchanged and discontinued in response to current needs. There is an individual commitment to a number of roles, and we share the traditional management tasks of planning, monitoring and coaching etc. This means there is much more self responsibility and that you also make decisions that have consequences for our organisation, which is why it is very important that you are in line with our values and our purpose.

Perks and benefits

This job comes with several perks and benefits

Flexible working hours
Flexible working hours

Time is precious. Make it count. Morning person or night owl, this job is for you.

Free coffee / tea
Free coffee / tea

Get your caffeine fix to get you started and keep you going.

Near public transit
Near public transit

Easy access and treehugger friendly workplace.

Social gatherings
Social gatherings

Social gatherings and games; hang out with your colleagues.

Free office snacks
Free office snacks

Peckish after lunch? We got your back with soft drinks, treats and fruit.

Working at
think.dk

We want to save the world. How about you?We are the Center for Acceleration of Change: a non-profit knowledge platform, event and project space and a co-creative community for people who want to work towards a brighter future. By applying a holistic approach to sustainability and promoting alternative solutions, we spread awareness and promote human connection. Our Center an intersection point for Changers of all kind and empowers people to act.It is time to take a step. Join us now.  think.dk is the Center for Acceleration of Sustainable Change - a platform for all initiatives that aim to support the development of society towards a more sustainable lifestyle.The Center was opened in September 2016 and is since then run by Martin (Ideologue, developer, writer and (r)evolutionary in spe) and Anja (Environmental manager, epicurist, enthusiast and hopeless optimist). We have always been concerned about the fact that this planet is step by step ruined by how things work today. So finally we decided to try to change the world, full-time.Today, there exist numerous initiatives for a more sustainable lifestyle, but they stay hidden in niches because they lack a lobby - and people are stuck in their old habits. This is why we now host a platform for new ideas and offer events and workshops which further sustainability, sharing and collaboration. We encourage and facilitate discussions on new paradigms and explore new work/life patterns.We want to offer serious and sustainable solutions to the problems that affect everyone every day. And we want to make a difference. We are extremely happy to say that the same goes for all of our members. It's not about what we could do in the past, but what we can do today. We think that this is how tomorrow is made.At think.dk, we:Provide and promote alternative and sustainable concepts for everyone (shareconomy | reuse/reduce/recycle)Offer new perspectives and raise awareness with talks, movie screenings and workshops on sustainability topicsBuild an accumulating service environmentQuestion the established consumption habits on all scalesConnect and combine like-minded people and sustainable initiativesExperiment with new paradigms and challenge the normWe accelerate sustainable change. We aim to save the world. Join us now!

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