Events Manager
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Job overview
The Events Manager coordinates operations and maintenance across three performance venues, including equipment moves, safety planning, and incident reporting. The role hires, trains, and schedules student event managers, supports performances, and prepares production reports. It also manages outside rentals by identifying needs, scheduling dates, preparing contracts and invoices, collecting fees, and coordinating with university departments and an inspection provider.
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Full job description
Hall Coordination and Maintenance: Acts as point person for faculty, students, and rental entities with respect to operation and condition of all three performance venues. Coordinates all equipment moves (including choral shells, platform risers, choral risers) with division personnel and event staff. Updates Building Manager regularly on any maintenance needs in all performance halls. Coordinates safety plans, additional security presence, and incident reporting procedures in partnership with necessary College and Butler School personnel. Performs basic maintenance and upkeep in performance halls (solving HVAC irregularities, tidying backstage, repairing broken seats and equipment). Maintains backstage door codes for Jessen Auditorium.Event Management and Staffing: Hires, trains, and schedules all student worker event managers. Keeps training and handbook materials up to date for all workers. Provides supervision and additional support for large performance events and prepares production reports for event staff prior to scheduled performances. Provides annual training for TAs with ensemble production roles in Bates Recital Hall.Rental Contracts and Production: Acts as point person for outside rental customers for Butler School of Music facilities. Identifies rental needs, schedules rental dates, prepares contracts, and coordinates with the business office to finalize contracts. Prepares invoices and collects rental fees. Schedules equipment moves and student worker event managers for rental events.Liaison with Outside Entities: Coordinates with other University of Texas departments when they host events in Butler School facilities. Serves as Konecranes liaison for canopy inspections in Bates Recital Hall.
How this job compares
Set against the 551 open Event Management jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 27, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- US median$80–109K/yr283 salary ranges
- US median$20–23/hr60 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 67 open Event Management jobs in Texas and 551 across the US. 4% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Texas
- UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN (this employer)17 open
- Marriott11 open
- FREEMAN7 open
- Experience
- Event Management postings that state a minimum ask for 4 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 2 to 7 years (395 postings).
- Education
- 85 of the 551 open Event Management jobs (15%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 27, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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