Community Manager

As our Community Manager, you will play key role in growing and activating entrepreneurial our co-working community. Our objective is create a co-working and events space that hosts dozens of events, hundreds of meetings, and thousands of visitors per year.

Your role will be to

• To fill the co-working space with ambitious, entrepreneurial tenants and to provide them a premium and engaging experience. This includes proactively managing a pipeline of prospective tenants and recruiting the highest quality ones to our space, serving as the key point of contact of existing tenants including coordinating on lease renewals, and efficiently addressing requests or issues related to the tenant experience.

• To fill the events calendar with vibrant, startup-related gatherings that amplify Icehouse Ventures connectivity to the ecosystem. This includes outreach to and coordination with others in the industry to host events in the Icehouse space (as well as creation and execution of our own events), supporting tenants and the Icehouse Ventures team to operate events including support with set up and pack down, management of an event calendars and coordination with any tenants affected, and coordination with suppliers and contractors.

• To amplify the energy, quality, and warmth of the space. This includes knowing every tenant by name, supporting the Barista & Facilities Manager to welcome and supports visitors to the space, executing “surprise & delight” initiatives for tenants, contributing to curated storytelling throughout the space, and attending to technology, security, and health & safety requirements of the co-working space.

This role offers significant opportunities for career development. Success would see a team member cover all core responsibilities with time to spare to learn about venture capital investing, connect with prominent investors, and learn from New Zealand’s leading entrepreneurs.