Senior Associate, Events and Engagements

Reporting to the Director Events, the Senior Associate, Events and Engagements will support the strategy, planning, and execution of Echoing Green events and engagements across all audiences. This function includes project management, logistics coordination, administrative tasks, writing, and storytelling. A successful candidate will be highly organized, detail-oriented, proactive, and interested in using events as an experiential storytelling vehicle for Echoing Green's growing community. At Echoing Green, we have a front-row seat to the brightest leaders with the most innovative ideas driving social progress across the world. We are fired up about our Fellows; we are their advocates and their biggest champions.

Echoing Green works with social innovators in the U.S. and globally to support big, bold ideas that help make our communities more equitable and sustainable. In line with the institution's growth over the past few years, we are expanding our online presence by marketing our programs and events, sharing storytelling campaigns, and amplifying our thought leadership.

What You'll Do

You'll support events by:

EVENT PRODUCTION

• Manage all aspects of event logistics for virtual, hybrid, and live events; this includes host or moderator duties and the administration of event systems for virtual and in-person engagements.
• Partner across internal teams to steward event-related external partnerships for all events, such as corporate engagements, Unwavering screenings, development, and brand-raising events.
• Serve as the key logistical point of contact for Echoing Green VIPs, including members of the executive team and Board of Directors, to deliver a seamless and top-tier experience.
• Source and collaborate with event-related vendors and suppliers across various areas of expertise to ensure successful event execution, including designers, venue managers, and travel agents.
• Create event marketing plans by building and maintaining invitation lists, drafting event marketing emails as needed, and collecting partner assets and other collateral.
• Create and manage campaigns and reports for events on Blackthorn and Salesforce.

PROJECT MANAGEMENT

• Work with all internal teams to project manage your portfolio running on time and to goal. This includes creating systems and processes to keep projects running on time and to goal and coordinating and setting event planning agendas for cross-team meetings.
• Maintain the organization-wide events calendar, organize the events mailbox, and catalog events documents and files in the team's shared drive.
• Ensure administrative tasks are in order, including vendor/Fellow contracts, billing/invoices, and reimbursements.

ORGANIZATIONAL CAPACITY AND STRATEGIC PLANNING

• Design and deliver strategic feedback on new event formats
• Provide insight on new systems, processes, and software to streamline events and communications workflow
• Monitor and evaluate event results. Recommend improvements across the event portfolio with regard to process and event execution in alignment with organizational goals. This will include survey administration and reporting, stakeholder debriefs, and research on trends and tools to contribute to event improvements over time
• Advise teams on their events and engagements to share best practices and guidance

Requirements

What you'll bring:

• Strong organization skills and ability to work on different projects
• 2-3 years of in-person and/or hybrid event planning experience
• Very high attention to detail
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills
• Collaborative, flexible, and well-suited to participating in an entrepreneurial, collegial environment
• Self-motivated, with the ability to navigate challenging situations in a professional manner
• Experience at a nonprofit is a plus

Benefits

Base Salary: $75,000/year

Echoing Green offers a full benefits package designed to support employee wellness which includes:

• Up to 27 days off per year, plus 9 paid holidays and 10 days off for winter break
• Best-in-class health insurance which covers medical, dental, and vision needs
• 16 weeks of paid parental leave
• 12 weeks paid personal sick leave
• Monthly well-being stipend of $100/month
• Monthly wireless stipend of $100/month
• Professional development stipend of $1000 per fiscal year, plus an additional $350 per fiscal year to support employees' learnings around racial equity
• 403(b)-retirement savings plan with an employer match up to 7% of annual salary

This role is hybrid and requires 2-3 days/ a week in our NYC office.

Employees of Echoing Green are required to show proof of being fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Reasonable accommodations will be considered on a case-by-case basis for exemptions to this requirement in accordance with applicable law.

Echoing Green provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, ancestry, sexual orientation, national origin, age, handicap, disability, marital status, or status as a veteran. Echoing Green complies with all applicable laws.