Event Manager, India

This is a remote position.

Event Manager, IndiaRemote (India) | Full-Time

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Event Coordinator, Event Project Manager, Event Operations Manager, Project Manager

Could you deliver a flawless day for hundreds of students in a city you have never set foot in?

On a typical day you might walk a venue coordinator in Melbourne through your room and AV requirements in the morning, lock catering numbers against the live registration count and follow up two presenter confirmations with the academic team after lunch, and update the run sheet and brief the on-ground leads before you log off.

About Contour

We started in 2020 with a handful of students and a belief that great education should not be out of reach. Today we operate across three brands with 8,000+ students and 425+ team members: roughly 100 in India and 325 onshore in Australia. The India team runs publishing, student experience, CRM and technology, operations, and people and culture, and this role sits with the events function that delivers Contour's event calendar across Australia.

A great event looks effortless to the family walking in. Someone has to be the reason it looks that way.

About This Role

You are the dedicated project manager behind Contour's events. The calendar runs from full exam simulation days for hundreds of students to revision lecture series selling thousands of tickets across Victoria and Queensland, with parent workshops and online sessions in between. You take each one from first brief to post-event review: timeline, venue, suppliers, registration milestones, comms deadlines, run sheet, event-day coordination, wrap-up.

You report to the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO). The CMO owns marketing strategy and the onshore event-day call when someone must be in the room. Everything else about how events get planned and delivered is yours. Marketing owns promotion, creative, and the registration campaigns. Academics owns session content and who presents it. Operations owns student data and check-in technology. On event day, teams on the ground in Australia execute in the room. The plan that ties them together, the dates they all work to, and the accountability for the day landing well: those are yours.

Two qualities separate a strong hire from an average one here. First, you think in dependencies: you see that catering numbers hang off registration close, which hangs off a reminder email, which hangs off a presenter confirming a title, and you fix the weak link three weeks early instead of discovering it three days out. Second, you follow up without souring relationships: you ask specifically, escalate when twice was enough, and people still enjoy working with you.

One more reality worth naming: you will rarely be in the room. You run events from India that are delivered in Australia, which means your plans, run sheets, and briefings have to be strong enough that the day runs without you standing in it.

You start as the sole dedicated event project manager, plugged into established marketing, academic, operations, and student experience teams. The calendar has grown faster than the way it is run: the biggest series now sell out lecture theatres, and until now no single person has owned how events get delivered. You build that playbook: the standard project plan, the run sheet format, the review loop that makes each event sharper than the last.

By the end of month three, you will have taken at least one major event from brief through delivery to review, built the project plan and run sheet templates the team reuses, and mapped the full calendar with owners, dates, and dependencies visible to everyone involved. What you build in those months will run every event Contour delivers after them.

Where the Work Lives

monday.com: project plans and task ownership live here. Keeping status current is how a remote team knows an event is on track without asking.

Google Sheets: run sheets, attendee lists, and event-day logistics. The people delivering the day work from your latest version, so document discipline is part of the job.

Eventbrite

registrations and ticketing. You watch the numbers daily because rooms, catering, and comms decisions all key off them.

HubSpot

student and guardian event comms run through it, alongside the lifecycle comms team.

Slack

where cross-team, cross-timezone coordination happens, in writing.

What You Will Do

Own each event end to end.Scope, timeline, suppliers, delivery, invoices, review: nothing about the event is someone else's problem.

Build and drive the project plan.Every task with an owner, a date, and a dependency in monday.com. When something slips, you catch it while there is still room to re-sequence.

Keep the full event calendar visible.Every event, owner, and key date in one place in monday.com, so anyone can see what's coming without asking you.

Coordinate Marketing, Academics, and Operations.Registration launches, presenter confirmations, resource handovers, comms milestones: you set the dates and hold every team to them.

Lock venues and suppliers.Room requirements, AV, catering, printing, signage: briefed clearly, confirmed in writing, and settled before their cutoffs.

Run registrations as a control signal.Work with the digital team on ticket setup in Eventbrite, track numbers daily, and trigger capacity, waitlist, and extra-session calls in good time, because 850 registrations against 760 seats is a problem you want weeks of notice on, not days.

Write the run sheet and brief the day.Minute by minute, with named owners for every stage, and briefings that leave the teams in the room certain of their part.

Close the loop.Attendance data, feedback, supplier invoices, a short post-event report, and fixes carried into the next plan.

If a better tool exists for something we are doing manually, make the case and we will back it.

Requirements

What You Need

4 to 6 years delivering projects or events where you held the whole timeline, not a slice of