Pamela Ariza
Pamela has almost 10 years of experience in logistics coordination for bringing people together for different sorts of reasons and events. Before joining APC in 2022, Pamela worked for the British Council in collaborative projects with the Chilean Ministry of Education, facilitating the convening and realisation of professional development activities for hundreds of Chilean teachers a year. Earlier, Pamela had gained experience in logistics through involvement in the organisation of cultural and musical events, a path she was led to thanks to her own music career as a pop singer/songwriter and her endless curiosity as an architect.
Purpose of position
The convenings lead holds responsibility for coordinating convening life-cycle and support APC staff learning of systems, policies and procedures (SP&P) for its implementation. They play a strategic role in ensuring convenings life-cicle contribute to APC strategy 3 - [S3] Build capacity and institutional strength - and support the effective implementation of APC’s strategic plan (outcomes 4 and 5). They are responsible for coordinating convening's life cycle of APC wide events* lead by APC mechanisms (APS Strategic Leadership, Programmes, Communicationss and Network Development, and Operations and Organisational Development). This include any events in-persons, online or hybrid that involve logistic planning. The convenings lead works in close collaboration with the operations manager, the information and systems coordinator, and are an active member of the APC Communal Infrastructure cross-team. They are responsible for supporting APC staff coordinating the overall event planning, securing primary services for events (including venue hire and contracting of services), supporting participants on all logistic matters , organising all of the information required for an event, managing the convenings budget. They contribute towards maintaining accurate and consolidated organisational practices and SP&P centered in safety and care; building, developing and suggesting new systems and workflows for APC logistics processes providing the necessary capacity to APC administrative, operational and finance staff.
