SITEEVT025 - Select event venues and sites

Unit code: SITEEVT025 | Study level: TAFE
Nominal hours:
35
Location
Footscray Nicholson
Prerequisites
N/A
Overview
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Overview

This unit describes the performance outcomes, skills and knowledge required to source and select venues or sites for events. It requires the ability to analyse event plans to determine venue or site requirements; develop selection specifications; and assess, choose and contract venues or sites.
This unit is relevant to events that are diverse in nature and are coordinated in many industry contexts, including the tourism, hospitality, sport, cultural and community sectors.It applies to workers who operate independently and are responsible for making a range of operational decisions. They may work in event management companies or in organisations that organise their own events.

Assessment

For Melbourne campuses

Assessment tasks will be designed to reinforce & extend knowledge and skill competence within set & controlled parameters in accordance with each units learning outcomes & performance criteria requirements, including the setting of work based practical application tasks designed to provide evidence of competence outcomes, within periodic and scheduled timelines.

Students will be expected to demonstrate the following required skills:

Students will also be expected to demonstrate the following knowledge:

  • types of events:
  • business and corporate
  • entertainment and leisure
  • exhibitions, expositions and fairs
  • festivals
  • fundraising
  • government and civic
  • meetings and conventions
  • sports
  • operational and venue requirements for different types of events
  • sources of information on event venues or sites
  • processes for undertaking virtual site inspections
  • key features of local event venues or sites and their capacity to service different types of events
  • event production products and services offered by event venues or sites and their suitability for different types of events:
  • accommodation
  • catering
  • technical equipment and services
  • staffing
  • security
  • storage facilities
  • technical equipment and production services:
    audio-visual
    costumes
    props
    pyrotechnics
    rigging
    sets
    sound and lighting
    special effects
    stage design and construction
    venue styling
  • transportation
  • risk and regulatory issues associated with different types of venues and sites, and methods of managing them:
  • access
  • liquor licensing
  • number of contractors to be coordinated
  • physical constraints
  • safety issues
  • security issues
  • venue or site appeal for intended audience
    crowd control
  • social and environmental sustainability issues associated with different venues and sites:
  • water and energy use
  • waste management
  • local community rights during operation of events
  • maintenance of natural and cultural integrity
  • operational structures within venues and sites:
  • relevant personnel
  • organisational relationships
    reporting structures
  • formats for, inclusions, and uses of:
  • venue or site specifications for the production of events
  • venue or site contracts.

Required reading

The qualified trainer and assessor will provide teaching and learning materials as required in the form of workbooks produced by Victoria University and/or via the Victoria University e-learning system.

As part of a course

This unit is studied as part of the following course(s):

Diploma of Event Management
SIT50322 | Diploma | Duration:

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