Associate Director of Event Operations and Marketing
Listed on 2026-09-20
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Hospitality / Hotel / Catering
Event Management & Planning, Event Staff/ Venue Crew
Associate Director of Event Operations and Marketing
Job no: 499061
Work type: Staff Full-Time
Location: Denver, CO
Categories: Events, Business Operations / Services, Admin / Executive / Office Support
Division: Daniels College of Business
The Fritz Knoebel School of Hospitality Management at Daniels College of Business at the University of Denver is looking to hire an industry professional for the Associate Director of Event Operations and Marketing. This role has oversight of all event planning and back-office operations and works directly with the full-time events team at the hospitality school and, pre and post event, with internal and external event clients hosting events within the school, particularly around event detailing and billing.
This team member will also have a direct working relationship with student staff and student managers who are part of the events team.
- The Associate Director of Event Operations and Marketing will be responsible for all of the following:
- Create weekly banquet event orders for over 500 events per year by working directly with clients to obtain all pertinent event information. Input, retrieve, and update event information and produce event reports through a computerized event management system; finalize event requirements.
- Ensure warm and clear event and client handoff to the operations team once events are planned.
- Administer all financials involved with Knoebel Events including, but not limited to: invoicing events via credit card or check; credit card batching sales and student tips daily into the University’s accounting system, Banner; forecasting monthly and yearly revenue and expenses; and reconciling applicable holding accounts such as the deposits held. Attends monthly budget meeting to present this information.
- Ensure that all charges are properly allocated on banquet orders and that billing is correct for all detailed events.
- Oversight of all technologies used/required to operate Knoebel Events. The person in this role must stay current with:
Clover POS systems, Elucian Banner (DU Banner system), IBM Cognos Analytics (financial reporting), Caterease catering softwares, Docusign, and WebT
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