Events Associate, Development and Fellowship Programs

Echoing Green is a nonprofit social venture fund that identifies, invests in, and supports some of the world's best emerging social entrepreneurs-society's change agents. Because we believe human capital is the most important asset class, and understand the difficulties faced by social innovators who challenge the status quo with bold ideas for a better world, Echoing Green invests deeply in these next generation change agents as well as works to create an ecosystem around them that supports and celebrates social innovation as a high-impact strategy for social change.

Since our founding in 1987 by General Atlantic, a leading private equity firm, Echoing Green has provided more than 500 emerging social entrepreneurs working in over forty countries with $30 million in start-up funding, customized technical and other support services, and access to our global network of champions. These next generation social innovators have gone on to launch, and now lead, some of today's most important social enterprises. For example, Echoing Green was an early funder of the visionary founders of Teach For America, City Year, College Summit, Freelancers Union, SKS Microfinance, EarthRights International, and hundreds of others around the world.

Position Overview:

Echoing Green is in an exciting period of organizational advancement. Our new strategic growth plan calls for increased development goals and impact metrics across all departments. This new role will be essential in realizing this growth. This is a fantastic position for a career-oriented person who is passionate about nonprofit event planning and interested in opportunities for high-level experience with senior management, major institutional and individual donors, and Echoing Green Fellows and Alumni. The ideal candidate, then, is eager to strategize and execute, and also impassioned about the potential to create events that satisfy all stakeholders in accordance with our broader social change agenda. There will be two program assistants and one development coordinator to support these events.

We're seeking a passionate and detail-oriented Events Associate, with 3-5 years of relevant experience, to manage our fundraising and programmatic events. The Associate will work across teams to coordinate all aspects of event programming, recruitment and logistics, as well as develop strategy for managing data and contacts within the purview of the role.  

Responsibilities: 

Event Management

Currently, our calendar includes three to four major Fellow Program conferences, five smaller, upscale donor engagement dinners, a few Social Investment Council (Young Professional Civic Engagement) programmed events, and one annual fundraising gala. For these events, the Associate will: 

• Create robust programming, managing multiple goals simultaneously, with equal attention across stakeholders - i.e., Fellows and Alumni, donors, thought leaders, civic engagement program constitutents and other guests
• Manage the invitation and recruitment process, including all event communications 
• Direct all planning logistics - including working with vendors, arranging travel and lodging for attendees, and building thoughtful space arrangements
• Maintain expenses within approved budgets; manage reimbursement process
• Act as lead on-site support during all events 

Data Management

• Design and execute event closing/post-mortem process
• Generate content and send out acknowledgements and surveys
• Analyze data and report up and out on event feedback and suggest ideas for future iterations
• Manage external messaging of event success, including blog and social media posts 

Qualifications:  

• The ideal candidate has a bachelor's or associate's degree and at least 3-5 years experience, or a graduate degree and equivalent. 
• Passion for Echoing Green's mission, with a commitment to social entrepreneurship and supporting next generation social innovators
• Demonstrated experience planning high-impact large and small scale events (conference planning and donor engagement event experience preferred)
• Excellent computer skills, including advanced knowledge of excel and powerpoint
• Demonstrated excellence managing data, ideally with a relationship management focus; salesforce.com or other CRM database experience a plus
• Attention to detail; excellent written and oral communication skills; ability to communicate with multiple stakeholder types
• Process and results orientation
• Passion for, and demonstrated excellence in, organizing tasks and data, with the ability to manage multiple responsibilities
• Proclivity for taking initiative and working independently; comfortable working in a fast-paced, dynamic environment 
• Ability to manage time while balancing competing priorities and and committed to meeting deadlines
• Experience in cross-departmental projects and ability to gain buy-in from senior leadership 

Compensation: Echoing Green offers a competitive compensation package, with benefits, commensurate with experience. Echoing Green is an at-will employer.

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