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About the Role
Associate Director, Development Events focuses on key design, fashion, donor cultivation, and physical challenge events, including the Groundbreaker Awards, Design on a Dime, and Fashion for Action. The Associate Director, Development Events assists with annual fundraising events and associated goals for Housing Works.
Responsibilities
- Manage the planning and execution of events, including identifying dates, locations, participants, and formats
- Manage and execute event sponsorship outreach, including identifying new partners and renewing existing partners
- Develop and manage mutually beneficial integrated marketing and activation plans for sponsors
- Establish, build, and maintain relationships with priority donors, vendors, and volunteers
- Help develop event-related communications and asset development/production plans
- Help build event budgets and negotiate event/production contracts
- Identify new event opportunities to refresh the current offering of agency events that drive additional revenue, new donors, and visibility for the organization
- Manage quotes, logistics, and execution of all details of event production including: catering, lighting, A/V, décor, registrations, etc.
- Conceptualize and activate event staffing solutions
- Create effective timelines and assure adherence to all event deadlines; including run of shows
- With visual team, build merchandising plan to maximize sales and ensure budget compliance
- Communicate effectively with numerous in-house departments to facilitate staff, equipment, delivery, etc. needs for events
- Working with Thrift store staff and Development, manage technology needs across events
- Regularly report on the success of Development events and recommend areas of improvement for future events
- Meet/exceed annual fundraising goals (net profit)
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of new/renewed event (cash) donors secured
Requirements
- BA/BS preferred; Associate’s degree required.
- A minimum of 4 years of event/management experience is preferred.
- Superior communications skill, including leading presentations to diverse audiences.
- Strong, detail-oriented, organizational and follow-through skills, as well as exceptional written and oral communication skills, including public speaking.
- Demonstrated skill and experience in strategic planning, setting goals, and managing performance; must possess and maintain up-to-date knowledge of current and relevant professional issues and literature.
- Demonstrated ability to think critically and exercise good judgment, as well as the ability to work independently and collaboratively with minimal day-to-day supervision in a fast-paced environment.
- Exceptional computer software skills, including MS Office suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
- Ability to travel to appointments, meetings, conferences, etc. for job-related business.
- Willingness to work events scheduled after 5pm and/or on weekends.
Skills
- Event planning
- Event execution
- Sponsorship outreach
- Marketing plan development
- Relationship building
- Budget management
- Contract negotiation
- Event production logistics
- Staffing solutions
- Timeline management
- Merchandising
- Cross-departmental communication
- Technology management
- Performance reporting
- Strategic planning
- MS Office suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
Experience Level
- 4 years of event/management experience preferred
Education Level
- Associate’s degree required
- BA/BS preferred
Salary/Compensations
- $80,000 - $85,000 yearly
Benefits
- Three comprehensive healthcare plans
- PTO accrual starting immediately, up to 30 days in the first year
- Educational benefit for tuition reimbursement, tuition costs, and textbooks
About the Company
- Housing Works was founded in 1990; With a long-term commitment to AIDS advocacy.
- Housing Works established New York State’s first harm reduction-based, OASAS-licensed outpatient drug treatment program.
- Other services include Health Home care management, behavioral health, and syringe exchange programs.
- A pioneer in the social entrepreneurship movement, Housing Works operates 10 high-end thrift shops in Manhattan and Brooklyn and a much-loved Bookstore Cafe in Soho.
- Housing Works fights for funding and legislation to ensure that all people living with HIV/AIDS have access to quality housing, healthcare, HIV prevention, and treatment, among other lifesaving services.
Equal Opportunity
- Housing Works provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics.
- Housing Works complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities.
- Housing Works also does not request prior salary information during the hiring process.
- This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.