Senior Event Planner (Germany) AFRICOM
Job Category: Project and Program Management
Time Type: Full time
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Minimum Clearance Required to Start: Secret Employee Type: Regular-Long Term Assignment Percentage of Travel Required: Up to 50% Type of Travel: Outside Continental USWhat You’ll Get to Do:
As the AFRICOM Senior Event Planner, you will support the development, design, execution, facilitation, and reporting of AFRICOM events, conferences, and engagements hosted and attended by AFRICOM staff, Components, and other authorized organizations to promote collaboration with U.S. allies and partner nations.
More About this Role:
The AFRICOM Senior Event Planner is responsible for planning, coordinating, and executing conferences and events including, but not limited to, symposiums, roundtables, engagements, or workshops.
- Manage all functions of the AEC
- Oversee daily operations within the USAFRICOM Event Center
- Scheduling and management of all events
- Manage the event center calendar, and deconflicts event requests
- Provide oversight of all events that take place within the AEC, to include conferences, seminars, workshops, and briefings.
- Perform the set-up, tear down and operation of the equipment in support of events involving up to 150 personnel
- Operate the video teleconferencing system suite for all the rooms of the AEC, and provides instruction to AEC users to do the same
- Collaborate with the USAFRICOM Protocol Office, security offices, and event action officers across the command, services, and components, to ensure seamless service and event success at all stages of event execution to include scheduling, rehearsals, set-up, translation, liaison interpretation, audio visual, tear-down and post events
- Facilitate coordination between Action Officers and the AFRICOM Physical Security Office to obtain AEC accreditation for TS/SCI events
- Ensure IT support is available for all events by coordinating with AEC IT Support and J6 personnel
You’ll Bring These Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant discipline or equivalent years of experience
- Two (2) years of experience in event coordination
- Two (2) years customer service experience
- Excellent communication skills
- Proficient in Microsoft Suite of products
- Secret Clearance or ability to obtain (U.S. Citizens only)
These Qualifications Would be Nice to Have:
- Prefer prior military experience or experience supporting military events
- Prefer ability to speak German, Arabic or French
- Experience supporting the AFRICOM AOR
- Top Secret / SCI Clearance or ability to obtain
What We can Offer You:
- CACI-Wexford manages the Special Operations and Asymmetric Solutions Operating Group within CACI’s Operations Support and Services Sector. As the premier provider of Special Operations capabilities; Tactical Advisory and Embedded Support; intelligence Applications to Law Enforcement; security cooperation and OCONUS Training Support Delivery for the company, CACI-Wexford has a reputation for uncompromising standards of quality in its people and its performance. Joining the CACI-Wexford team is a mark of excellence for those employees who complete our rigorous Mission Focused Staffing process.
- CACI-Wexford’s mission places its personnel against the government’s most critical emerging challenges. Work with us, and you’ll be working with a team making a difference across the globe.
- CACI-Wexford offers competitive benefits as well as numerous learning and development opportunities.
- As the Prime Contractor for this effort, CACI-Wexford offers unmatched stability and growth potential within the program.
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