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ioby Seeks Events Manager

ioby seeks an Events Manager, preferably based in New York City, Memphis, Cleveland, Detroit, DC or Pittsburgh. The Events Manager will play a critical role in shifting ioby’s model from an online platform and support service to a peer network of neighborhood leaders. Reporting to the Communications & Creative Strategy Director, this team member will work to develop a series of in-person and web-based convenings of neighborhood leaders and broaden ioby’s constituent base of civically engaged residents.

Responsibilities will include planning and implementing several programmatic events a year, as well as developing strategies to best leverage the work to bring ioby to the next level of citizen engagement. The Events Manager will also contribute 20% of their activities to planning ioby’s fundraising events. For the right candidate, this position is an exciting opportunity to shape the growth of a mission-driven, community-based nonprofit tech startup while contributing to a broad movement of citizen-led neighborhood development.

Women, people of color and LGBT people are always strongly encouraged to apply.

ioby is committed to the principles of equal opportunity. ioby’s organizational policies, practices, programs, activities and decisions regarding employment, hiring, assignment, promotion, compensation, volunteerism, internships and other terms and conditions of employment or voluntary service shall not be based on a person’s race, color, sex, age, religion, national origin, mental or physical disability, ancestry, military discharge status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, source of income, parental status, housing status, or other protected status, in accordance with applicable law.

JOB ACTIVITIES:

80% of work will be devoted to constituent convenings and local leader cultivation events. 20% of work will be devoted to fundraising events.

  • Work with local ioby City Action Strategists and the Communications & Creative Strategy Director to develop strategies to grow ioby’s national constituency through events;
  • Work with on-the-ground staff to plan and implement local convenings in Detroit, Memphis, Cleveland, NYC, Pittsburgh and Washington, DC;
  • Help develop event program content including trainings, skill-sharing, panel discussions, moderated conversations, and others;
  • Interface directly with ioby’s national network of community leaders and partners to plan and prepare for events;
  • Work with the Communications team to design and produce promotional and takeaway collateral; manage the bulk of online and offline outreach for events;
  • Recruit, manage, and develop relationships with local event sponsors and vendors;
  • Manage In-person and on-site events including troubleshooting;
  • Support Growth team’s fundraising-related events, including the annual benefit and small donor-cultivation events.

REQUIREMENTS

Candidates for this position must have:

  • Deep commitment and fulfillment derived from working on a team;
  • Meticulous by nature; excellent communication and time-management skills;
  • Experience securing corporate sponsors for events;
  • Experience marketing events for a variety of audiences and at a variety of ticket prices;
  • Extreme comfort in cold calling; polite persistence;
  • Experience managing a number of vendors, freelancers, and contractors at once;
  • Demonstrated project management and budgeting experience;
  • Basic graphic design skills;
  • Respect and tact when working with new communities, ability to adapt and respond to context;
  • Ability to customize events based on specific goals and outcomes;
  • Ability to oversee continuity of brand and organizational identity;
  • Able to experiment and thoughtfully evaluate one’s own work.

Exceptional candidates will also have:

  • Experience managing production of events remotely;
  • Experience using marketing automation products like Eloqua, Convio, Soapbox, or others to manage ticketing and marketing for events;
  • Experience managing designers in a design process;
  • Experience working on a distributed team;
  • Experience working with a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion framework;
  • Competency using all Adobe Creative Suite tools;
  • Some experience in both fundraising and constituency-building events.

BENEFITS

ioby has offices New York City, Memphis, Cleveland, Detroit, DC or Pittsburgh, and location in one of these cities is preferable but not required. This position requires a large amount of travel. ioby’s regular business hours are 9-6pm Monday through Friday, but this job will require occasional work outside regular business hours. ioby is a startup: You’ll be expected to bring new ideas, strategies, revise your work on short timelines and bring an attitude of continuous improvement and a culture of innovation.

This full-time position has been funded for one year, and will be evaluated for renewal with the staff member. It is salaried, commensurate with experience, and includes a generous benefit package.

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