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About the Role
The Manager of Special Events focuses on the fundraising, planning, and oversight of high-end events for major donors, sponsors, and members, with a primary focus on the annual Gala. This role involves strategic frontline fundraising, management, and execution of 25-40 events annually, project management, and building strong relationships with stakeholders.
Responsibilities
- Manage and execute the Armory’s fundraising events, including the annual Gala and benefit events.
- Manage administrative and logistical aspects of major fundraisers, including financials, mailings, and vendor coordination.
- Collaborate with key staff on special projects for events, including printed materials, run of show, entertainment, and décor.
- Manage a portfolio of cultivation and private events for donors and membership groups.
- Coordinate back-office administration, including vendor contracts, supplies, meeting scheduling, and expense tracking.
- Ensure all events conform to the institution's aesthetic standards.
- Collaborate with applicable departments to ensure coordinated event planning and execution.
- Perform other event management responsibilities as needed.
- Build special engagement with committee leadership, members, event leadership, and donors to support fundraising events.
- Implement and improve systems for financial revenue and expense tracking.
- Utilize Tessitura (fundraising CRM) for storing fundraising and events data.
- Perform other fundraising, event, and development responsibilities as needed.
- Build and supervise a dynamic events team, including staff, interns, consultants, contractors, and vendors.
- Assist in building and maintaining productive working relationships within the development department and with other departments.
- Perform other supervisory duties as needed, including recruiting, hiring, and performance evaluation.
Requirements
- Ability to perform essential functions to a high professional standard.
- Highly organized, motivated, high-energy, detail-oriented self-starter.
- Ability to work well within a fast-paced environment.
- Proven excellence in organizational and laser-focused attention to detail.
- Demonstrated ability to take initiative, proactively manage multiple priorities and projects with tight and changing deadlines.
- Ability to work both independently and collaboratively as part of a team.
- Experience improving existing systems and developing new processes for increased efficiency and productivity.
- Outstanding interpersonal skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Sound judgment, professionalism, and discretion in handling confidential information and sensitive matters.
- Ability to work nights, weekends, and holidays, as needed.
Skills
- Special events management
- Frontline patron fundraising
- Microsoft Office Suite (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
- Internet research
- Tessitura experience (a plus)
Location
- New York City
Work Type
- Full-time
- Exempt position
- Requires evenings and some weekend day and evening work
Experience Level
- 2-3 years’ experience in managing special events or being a frontline patron fundraiser for a non-profit organization
Salary/Compensations
- $75,000 to $85,000 annually
About the Company
- Park Avenue Armory is dedicated to supporting unconventional works in the visual and performing arts that need non-traditional spaces for their full realization.
- It enables artists to create and audiences to experience epic and adventurous presentations that cannot be mounted elsewhere in New York City.
Equal Opportunity
- Park Avenue Armory provides equal opportunity to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, age, mental or physical disability, pregnancy, alienage or citizenship status, marital status or domestic partner status, genetic information, genetic predisposition or carrier status, gender identity, HIV status, military status and any other category protected by law in all employment decisions, including but not limited to recruitment, hiring, compensation, training and apprenticeship, promotion, upgrading, demotion, downgrading, transfer, lay-off and termination, and all other terms and conditions of employment.