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Join the TED2025 Team in Vancouver and Help Create an Unforgettable Event Experience
Overview
Salary
£210 - £290
Location
Vancouver, BC
Expires
Expires at anytime
TED, a globally recognized beacon of knowledge and creativity, is looking for passionate individuals to join our event team for TED2025 in Vancouver. This is your chance to be part of an organization that inspires deep thinking and fosters connections among curious minds from around the world.
- Assist in producing various aspects of the TED2025 event.
- Provide high-quality service to high-profile guests with discretion.
- Engage in proactive problem-solving and decision-making with minimal oversight.
- Perform physical work, including heavy lifting up to 50 lbs.
- Experience in customer service, hospitality, event production, or tourism management.
- Tech-savvy with a good understanding of various devices.
- Independent with excellent time management skills.
- Strong interpersonal, communication, and problem-solving abilities.
TED is devoted to curiosity, reason, wonder and the pursuit of knowledge — without an agenda. We welcome all who seek a deeper understanding of the world and connection with others, and we invite everyone to engage with ideas and activate them in your community.
These are short-term, temporary contract roles for in-person, onsite support at the TED2025 in Vancouver, BC. Event orientation and onsite work will take place between April 5 - 11, 2025. Successful applicants will be responsible for any travel, accommodation, and meal costs.
Event Assistants help the Event Production team produce multiple aspects of the TED2025 experience. We’re looking for people who are comfortable assisting high-profile guests with discretion and tact, actively listening to requests and taking the temperature of a situation before reacting. We want people who are proactive and resourceful, critical thinkers, and act decisively when solving problems and managing competing priorities with minimal oversight. On-site roles involve walking and standing for long periods and being able to participate in some physical work and heavy lifting of up to 50 lbs.
Qualifications include previous customer service and/or hospitality experience, tech-savvy with a functional understanding of laptops, tablets, and cell phones, previous event production or tourism management experience, able to work well under little supervision, with excellent time management skills, strong interpersonal and communication skills, proactive and resourceful, critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
