Meeting & Event Planner - NCAA Conference Center

Short’s Travel Management, a leading provider of NCAA Athletic travel for collegiate athletics has a immediate opening for an experienced Meeting & Event Planner with its team at the NCAA Conference Center. We have a great team culture where we genuinely enjoy who we work with. So if you have event planning experience, this may be a great fit for you! This position will be responsible for working with clients and client groups to organize and coordinate logistics for internal meetings and events. Some on-site event management required.Learns and manages fully all areas of Short’s Travel’s proprietary systems including meeting requests, hotel inventory, rooming lists and registration.Collaborates in overseeing NCAA Conference Center, plans internal meetings and works closely with vendors.Utilizes exceptional customer service capabilities: above average listening, negotiating and communication skills, creative thinking and problem solving, detail oriented with excellent follow through.Builds strong, productive relationships with NCAA staff, in house catering, audio visual and set up vendors, external hotel vendors, hotel sales managers, national sales offices, etc.