Special Events Manager - Casino jobs in Fairfield, CA

Knowledge
• Administration and Management -- Knowledge of business and   management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, leadership technique, and coordination of people and resources.
• Clerical -- Knowledge of administrative and clerical procedures and systems such as word processing, managing files and records, transcription, designing forms, and other office procedures and terminology.
• Computers and Electronics -- Knowledge of computer hardware and software, including applications.
• Customer and Personal Service -- Knowledge of principles and processes for providing (internal or external) customer services including customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for service, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.
• Economics and Accounting -- Knowledge of economic and accounting principles and practices, and the analysis and reporting of financial data.
• English Language -- Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.
• Sales and Marketing -- Knowledge of principles and methods for showing, promoting, and selling products or services. This includes marketing strategy and tactics, sales techniques, and sales control systems.

Skills
• Active Learning -- Understanding the implications of new information for    both current and future problem-solving and decision-making.
• Active Listening -- Giving appropriate attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
• Attention to Detail -- Maintaining appropriate attention to detail based on the complexity of work performed.
• Communication and Comprehension -- Conveying written and/or non-written information effectively; comprehending and understanding documentation and verbal or visual communications.
• Complex Problem Solving -- Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.
• Critical Thinking -- Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
• Judgment and Decision Making -- Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
• Management of Financial Resources -- Determining how resources will be allocated to accomplish work getting done, and accounting for these expenditures.
• Management of Personnel Resources -- Motivating, developing, and directing people as they work, identifying the best people for the job.
• Monitoring -- Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.
• Operations Analysis -- Analyzing needs and product requirements to create a design.
• Persuasion -- Persuading others to change their minds or behavior.
• Quality Control Analysis -- Conducting tests and inspections of products, services, or processes to evaluate quality or performance.
• Service Orientation -- Actively looking for ways to help people.
• Social Perceptiveness -- Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do.
• Time Management -- Managing one's own time and the time of others.
• Troubleshooting -- Determining causes of operating errors and deciding what to do about it.

Abilities
• Category Flexibility -- The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways.
• Deductive Reasoning -- The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
• Fluency of Ideas -- The ability to come up with a number of ideas about a topic.
• Inductive Reasoning -- The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).
• Information Ordering -- The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).
• Originality -- The ability to come up with original or novel ideas for a certain situation, or to develop creative ways to solve a problem.
• Problem Sensitivity -- The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong.
• Selective Attention -- The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted.
• Time Sharing -- The ability to shift back and forth between two or more activities or sources of information.

A valid California driver's license and satisfactory driving record are conditions of initial and continued employment.
 

Note:  Incumbents assigned to the Aquatics program must possess WSI, Lifeguard, CPR and First Aid certificates at the time of hire and complete the AFO/CPO course work within the 6-month probationary period.