National Events Manager

National Events Manager

Work Schedule - Full-time (average 38–40 hours per week). Core hours Monday - Friday, with flexibility required during peak periods and events (Dec - May).

Location: Remote (Perth-based is ideal), with on-site national tour commitments.

Remuneration Package - The package will depend on experience. A performance-based bonus structure may be available for the right candidate.

About Dawnbreak

Dawnbreak is looking for an experienced Event Manager to help deliver and scale our Sunrise Silent Disco events across Australia.

Dawnbreak creates high-energy, unique, sober sunrise experiences that bring together music, movement, community, nature, and culture. Our events take place in iconic outdoor locations and are designed to feel uplifting, welcoming and unforgettable.

Dawnbreak is at an exciting stage in its growth, with sell-out events, multiple interstate tours, never-before-done event formats, and national/international expansion on the horizon. We are looking for a passionate person to join the Dawnbreak family.

This is a key leadership role for someone who loves events, thrives in fast-moving environments, is passionate about community impact and knows how to turn big creative ideas into safe, smooth, scalable event experiences.

About the Role

The Event Manager will be responsible for the end-to-end operational planning, coordination, delivery, and review of Dawnbreak events.

You will manage the practical details that bring Dawnbreak events to life, including council approvals, site plans, suppliers, staff, safety, event logistics, run sheets, budgets, bump-in, live-event operations, and pack-down.

You will work directly with the Founders / Directors and play a major role in supporting Dawnbreak in continuing to offer unique, sober-focused, community-driven, impactful sunrise events.

This role involves being a part of a larger movement, building the systems, standards, and processes that allow Dawnbreak to grow into a national event brand.

Key Responsibilities

Event Planning & Delivery

You will lead the operational planning and delivery of Dawnbreak events from start to finish.

This includes:

• Building event plans, run sheets, timelines, site maps, staffing plans, and supplier schedules.
• Managing event setup, live operations, and pack down.
• Coordinating event infrastructure, including DJ areas, silent disco headset stations, signage, first aid, ticket scanning, hydration, vendors, and attendee flow.
• Ensuring each event is delivered safely, professionally, on time, and on budget.
• Leading event-day briefings and making sure all staff, suppliers, and contractors understand their responsibilities.
• Solving issues calmly and quickly on event day.

Council, Venue & Compliance

You will manage Dawnbreak’s event approval process and help maintain strong relationships with councils, venues, landowners, and key authorities.

This includes:

• Preparing and submitting event applications.
• Managing council and venue approval timelines.
• Coordinating required documentation such as event management plans, risk management plans, emergency management plans, site maps, traffic or pedestrian plans, noise management plans, waste plans, and first aid plans.
• Ensuring all approval conditions are understood and implemented.
• Keeping Dawnbreak organised, compliant, and professional in the eyes of councils and venues.

Tour & Growth Operations

You will help plan and deliver multi-city tours and new event formats.

This includes:

• Building operational plans for interstate Dawnbreak events.
• Coordinating freight, equipment, storage, travel, local suppliers, and city-specific event requirements.
• Creating repeatable systems for launching Dawnbreak in new locations.
• Developing local supplier networks and casual crew structures.
• Capturing learnings from each event and applying them to future tours.

Supplier, Staff & Equipment Management

You will coordinate the people and resources required to deliver Dawnbreak events at a high standard.

This includes:

• Sourcing, briefing, booking, and managing suppliers.
• Managing event crew, volunteers, casual staff, and local city leads.
• Creating event team rosters, briefing documents, and event-day role allocations.
• Managing silent disco headset logistics, including charging, testing, packing, transport, distribution, return, cleaning, and stock tracking.
• Maintaining supplier databases, equipment checklists, and operational templates.

Safety, Risk & Attendee Experience

You will help ensure Dawnbreak events remain safe, welcoming, and enjoyable as they grow.

This includes:

• Preparing and maintaining event risk and emergency documentation.
• Coordinating first aid and emergency access.
• Monitoring weather and supporting event safety decisions.
• Tracking incidents, near misses, complaints, and post-event learnings.
• Improving ticket scanning, headset collection, way-finding, crowd flow, and overall attendee experience.
• Upholding the Dawnbreak brand standard across every event.

About You

You are highly organised, calm under pressure, reliable, practical, and proactive. You are the type of person who can stand in the middle of a busy event site at 4:00am, lead the team, solve problems, and keep the energy positive.

You understand that great events require both operational discipline and emotional intelligence. You care about the tiny details, but you also understand the bigger picture. You know how to manage people, timelines, budgets, councils, suppliers, and moving parts without losing sight of the attendee experience.

You are excited by growth and want to be part of building something meaningful from the inside.

Required Experience

The ideal candidate will have:

• 3-5+ years of experience in event management, event production, operations, festivals, major public events, community events, outdoor events, wellness events, music events, or similar.
• Experience delivering events with 1,000 - 3,000 attendees.
• Experience working with councils, venues, suppliers, contractors, and event approval processes.
• Strong understanding of event safety, risk management, and emergency planning.
• Experience managing staff, volunteers, suppliers, and event-day teams.
• Strong project management skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Budget management experience.
• Ability to work early mornings, weekends, and irregular hours when events require.
• Ability to travel interstate for events.
• Full driver’s licence.

Highly Regarded

The following experience would be highly valued:

• Outdoor event experience.
• Music, festival, wellness, fun run, lifestyle, or mass participation event experience.
• Experience managing multi-city tours.
• Experience managing commercial/sponsorship activations.
• Experience creating event management plans and risk documents.
• Experience building systems in Notion, Monday, Asana, ClickUp, Google Drive, or similar.
• First aid or emergency management training.

What Success Looks Like

In this role, success means:

• Dawnbreak events are delivered safely, smoothly, and professionally.
• Council and venue relationships are strong.
• Event planning is organised and proactive.
• Suppliers, staff, and contractors are clearly briefed and well managed.
• Attendee experience improves as events grow.
• Event budgets are tracked and controlled.
• Dawnbreak can confidently expand into new cities.
• Operational systems become repeatable and scalable.
• The brand’s energy, magic, and sense of community are upheld.

Working Style

This is a full-time role that involves ample time working from home, with the understanding that events do not always fit neatly into standard hours.

The role will involve:

• Weekday planning and administration.
• Early mornings for Dawnbreak events.
• Weekend work when events are scheduled.
• Interstate travel for tours.
• Occasional evening meetings or supplier calls.
• Flexible recovery time after major event periods, where appropriate.

This role requires flexibility, ownership, passion and energy, but we also value sustainability and workplace culture, and we acknowledge that this role will be structured to support these values.

Why Join Dawnbreak?

Dawnbreak is more than an events company. We're building something truly unique, fresh and culture-changing in the Australian events landscape.

We are creating a new kind of morning culture, one that is sober, energetic, music-led, inclusive, outdoors, and community-driven. Our events are designed to make people feel alive before the rest of the world has even woken up.

This is an opportunity to join Dawnbreak at a pivotal stage of growth and play a major part in bringing joy to thousands of people.

How to Apply

Please send through:

• Your CV
• A cover letter including a short introduction about yourself
• A brief summary of your event experience
• Examples of events, tours, festivals, activations, or large-scale experiences you have helped deliver

We are especially interested in hearing from people who are organised, values-driven, commercially aware, and excited by the challenge of helping a growing event brand scale across Australia.