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AthFest is Hiring a Part-Time Event Coordinator

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The Baseball Project performs at AthFest 2015.

The AthFest Music and Arts Festival is hiring a part-time event coordinator to help plan this year’s 20th-anniversary edition, which will take place June 22–26.

The hiree “will assist the Executive Director with event planning operations, supervision of interns or volunteers in performing these operations, and other tasks at the direction of the Executive Director and the Board of Directors,” according to the job posting

In addition, “the Event Coordinator will have the primary responsibility for executing all operational plans for the 20th Annual Athens Music and Arts Festival.”

The deadline to apply is Sunday, Feb. 14, and AthFest’s target start date for the position is mid-March.

Says AthFest Educates Director Jill Helme: “Ideally, we are looking for someone who might be able to take the position on for three or so years so we’re not in the position of retraining someone each year.”

You can apply here.

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