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Events Manager
Job Summary:
The Program OperationsEvents Manager serves as a leader within the department by driving, planning, and executing exceptional programs and events with cross functional partners while supporting the overall team. A large focus of this role will be planning and executing upscale events geared toward VIP audiences and high-level donors. Reporting to the Director of Program Operations, this position holds a high degree of autonomy regarding day-to-day operations and individual project and task execution, with support from their manager to improve and deliver on larger scheme projects that affect high-level goals of the organization.
Supervisory Responsibilities:
- None.
Duties/Responsibilities:
- Manage and serve as the point of contact for a large/complex portfolio of programs and related projects with minimal supervision.
- Plan and execute experimental programs or projects that deliver on our stakeholders’ goals and develop recommendations for similar projects going forward.
- Seamlessly balance the planning and execution of multiple programs and upscale events geared toward a variety of VIPs, donors, and similar high-level audiences.
- Manage Asana timelines to review projects holistically, assign tasks to team members, and update task trees and project timelines as needed.
- Execute sound and strategic decision-making by proposing solutions to the immediate supervisor for timely input regarding anticipated potential problems.
- Lead stakeholder meetings, identify next steps and actionable goals within programming processes, and ensure relevant tasks and operatives are added, appropriately delegated, and completed by holding team members accountable.
- Maintain timely, professional, and thorough written and verbal communication to internal and external stakeholders to ensure excellent customer service.
- Serve as a mentor and resource for junior team members by assisting with their training and providing regular feedback and opportunities for learning.
- When needed, serve as the point of contact for another internal team; communicate updates and challenges from the department to the appropriate stakeholder(s).
- Manage, build, and implement process improvements through experience and institutional knowledge to help improve efficiency and effectiveness.
- 20-25% travel required for this role:
- Staff online and in-person programs:10 per year - subject to change based on projected programs laid out in the IHS strategic plan.
Required Skills/Qualifications:
- 4+ years of relevant experience.
- High degree of professionalism with strong verbal and written communication skills, and a demonstrated ability to work well with high-level donors and VIPs.
- Excellent detail-orientation and organizational skills to meet clearly set goals and project timelines.
- Exceptional interpersonal skills and a passion for teamwork and cross-collaboration across the organization, matched by demonstrated success working independently and driving individual timelines and projects.
- Strong desire and ability to coach and develop team members.
- Highly entrepreneurial attitude with a proven track record of effectively driving project management, and planning and implementing process improvements.
- Strong sense of flexibility and the ability to adapt to changing circumstances.
- Capability to drive a technology-savvy and data-driven approach, with experience setting and tracking key performance metrics within a CRM system. Thorough understanding of download information/planning and team feedback
- Salesforce experience preferred.
- Familiarity with an academic environment, and the expectations and values of an academic audience.
- A strong appreciation for classical liberal principles (individual rights, free markets, limited government, voluntarism, and peace).
- The ability to lift 20 lbs. or more.
To apply, qualified candidates must submit the following application materials (through additional documents):
- Resume
- Cover letter detailing:
- Your interest in this position.
- A compelling case about why the IHS mission resonates with you.
About the Institute for Humane Studies at George Mason University:
The Institute for Humane Studies (IHS) supports and partners with university professors working within the classical liberal intellectual tradition. Our vision is that higher education becomes a place where the open exchange of ideas flourishes, and where ideas within the classical liberal tradition are regularly taught, discussed, challenged, and developed so that they inform scholarly and public discourse on the key challenges facing a free society.
Each year, IHS provides thousands of aspiring and established professors graduate student fellowships, career development support, research funding, and support for on-campus student programs. Most importantly, through its scholarly convenings IHS connects these scholars to one another to form a diverse and growing community of thought leaders advancing ideas essential to the good society—a pluralistic and tolerant society in which individuals and communities flourish in a context of openness, dignity, equality, and freedom.
Benefits:
We have a flexible, professional, open office environment that encourages innovation and entrepreneurship and provides substantial opportunity for professional growth. Salary is competitive and will be commensurate with experience. IHS provides exceptional benefits to all employees, including health and dental insurance coverage (which includes paying 100% of the health and dental insurance premium for individuals), health savings accounts, long-term disability and life insurance, a 403(b) retirement savings program, a parking permit and 12 free tuition credit hours annually at George Mason University.
