Planners of Conferences and Events
Job description
These individuals organize and coordinate various events (congresses, conferences, meetings, exhibitions, fairs, festivals, etc.). They are self-employed or work for:
- Tourist, commercial, and professional associations
- Convention centres
- The government
- Firms specializing in conference and special event planning
Environment
- Controlled ambient temperature
Main tasks
- Meet with representatives of trade and professional associations and organizing committees.
- Promote, negotiate, and coordinate services adapted to the scale of the events.
- Plan, implement, monitor, and review budgets and administrative procedures.
- Coordinate participant registration and organize entertainment and social gatherings among them.
- Prepare programming and publicize events.
- Hire, train, and supervise support staff.
- Ensure compliance with applicable municipal by-laws.
- Verify and approve invoices, maintain records, and prepare reports.
Hourly wage
The hourly wage is calculated by averaging wages from 2022 to 2024.- Minimum
- $20.00
- Median
- $30.00
- Maximum
- $41.35
Job prospects for 2024-2028
Job prospects for 2024-2028
Job prospects
All of Québec
All of Québec
Total jobs for 2023
All of Québec
All of Québec
Gender distribution
All of Québec
- 70.5% Female
- 29.5% Male
- 70.5% Female
- 29.5% Male
Job types
All of Québec
- Full time
- Part time
- Full time
- Part time
Yearly wage on 2020
All of Québec
All of Québec
Other characteristics
All of Québec
- Non traditional for men
- None
All of Québec
- Non traditional for men
- None
Sectors of activity
All of Québec
-
NAICS 7127% of jobs
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NAICS 8120% of jobs
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NAICS 9110% of jobs
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NAICS 617% of jobs
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NAICS 55, 566% of jobs
-
Others30% of jobs
All of Québec
-
NAICS 7127% of jobs
-
NAICS 8120% of jobs
-
NAICS 9110% of jobs
-
NAICS 617% of jobs
-
NAICS 55, 566% of jobs
-
Others30% of jobs
Training and requirements
Formation
Most training programs are offered in French only.
College
ACS in coordination d'événements
Placement rate: 86.7%
6.7% of graduates pursue further studies
ACS in gestion d'événements et de congrès
Placement rate: 73.7%
15.8% of graduates pursue further studies
DCS in tourism (Development and Promotion of Travel Products)
Placement rate: 54.3%
31.4% of graduates pursue further studies
DCS in tourism (Tourist Product Development)
Placement rate: 73.3%
26.7% of graduates pursue further studies
Sometimes required
- Event, meeting, or conference management accreditation may be required.
- A university degree or college diploma in business management, tourism, or hotel management is usually required.
- Several years of experience in hotel and tourism management or public relations are usually required. May substitute for academic qualifications.
Main skills and characteristics
Skills
- Data collection
- Reading comprehension
- Active listening
- Oral expression
- Information processing
- Coordination
- Service oriented
- Critical thought
- Social perception
- Time management
- Judgment and decision-making
- Solving complex problems
- Result evaluation
- Written expression
- Persuasion
- Active learning
- Negotiation
- System analysis
- Human resource management
- Systems evaluation
- Teaching
- Financial resource management
Abilities
- Written comprehension
- Oral comprehension
- Written expression
- Verbal skills
- Speech recognition
- Deductive reasoning
- Awareness of issues
- Speech clarity
- Idea generation
- Originality
- Inductive reasoning
- Near vision
- Information organization
- Selective attention
- Classification
- Distance vision
- Time sharing
- Mathematical reasoning
- Visualization
Knowledge and attributes
- Leadership
- Focussed on results
- Capacity to influence and mobilize
- Capacity to adapt
- Spoken and written bilingualism (French and English)
- Knowledge of customer and personalized services
- Capacity to work in a team
- Sense of initiative
- Tolerance to stress
- Vitality
Interests
- Direct, organize, and manage
- Draft, communicate, and inform
- Work in sales or client service
- Work in the arts, culture, music, or leisure
- Work in hotels, restaurants, and tourism
- Self-employment
Personality profiles (RIASEC)
- Enterprising
- People with this profile prefer having responsibilities, influencing others and responding to challenges.
- Social
- People with this profile prefer to be in contact with others, in particular to entertain, help or teach them.
- Conventional
- People with this profile prefer specific, well-defined tasks. They like to respect the order of things and follow established rules.
Official name of the NOC 12103
Conference and event planners
Job titles
- Conference services officer
- Convention planning services officer
- Conference coordinator
- Convention coordinator
- Meeting coordinator
- Event coordinator
- Social events coordinator
- Special events coordinator
- Exhibition coordinator
- Special events organizer
- Trade show organizer
- Conference organizer
- Festival organizer
- Event planner
- Special events planner
- Trade show planner
- Conference planner
- Conference and meeting planner
- Convention planner
- Convention and special events planner
- Special events program planner
- Meeting planner
Skill type
Business, finance and administration
Last update: January 29, 2026