About the Opportunity

About the D’Amore-McKim School of Business:

For over 100 years, the D’Amore-McKim School of Business at Northeastern University has continuously strengthened its foundation of experiential learning and innovation. Today, our mission to enable students to be responsible business leaders of the world capable of working, navigating, and creating in a digital environment is more relevant than ever. We offer unique business-specific and interdisciplinary degree opportunities at the bachelor's and master’s levels, and lifelong learners benefit from our graduate-level certificates and executive education portfolio. All of these are enhanced by Northeastern's global campus system and experience-powered education approach. In addition, our use-inspired faculty and their research focus on transformative impact for humankind. Ultimately, D’Amore-McKim’s values-driven culture and cross-border approach to learning and research empower our students, faculty, alumni, and corporate partners to create impact far beyond the confines of time, discipline, degree, and campus.

About the opportunity:

The Director of Event Management & Strategy leads an event staff team who are responsible for all College events and conference management that promote the vision and strategy of the college. The position will provide strategic planning, execution and management of all College events, commencement celebrations, faculty conferences and symposiums. The Director will develop an event strategy that is forged in collaboration with the Dean and the college’s senior leadership team around key priorities for the College such as growing faculty research and visibility, global campus engagement, and supporting rollout of new industry partnership model all of which will rely heavily on events and conferences to support their success. Develop and implement a comprehensive policy and procedure guide to be used college wide. Collaborate with various key stakeholders in the college and across the network including the college’s senior leadership team.

Key Responsibilities & Accountabilities:

1-Event Policy, Procedure + Strategy

• Develop and execute event policy and procedure guide;

• Ensure college goals, mission and branding are weaved through all policies and strategy;

• Cultivate relationships with various stakeholders and groups within the college to understand the needs and goals each group has and how an event strategy can help assist in reaching those goals. This can be done through communication and working groups with senior leadership and stakeholders. The goal will be to have a more strategic approach to the event calendar that allows the college to more; effectively hit goals for admissions, research, recruitment and hiring.

• Work with the research administration team to comprehend the needs of grants and faculty conferences. This will help the college grow research related events and conferences.

2- Team Management + Training

• Build and develop event team to support the evolving college needs. The college is looking for a team that is able to offer their expertise in event management and advisement;

• Manage the team in training from the ground up. It will be critical to have a leader