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National Alliance for Care at Home- Manager/Senior Manager, Education and Events

Alexandria, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 30 Jan 2025

💰 $95,000/yr

About the role

Organization: National Alliance for Care at Home

Position: Manager/Senior Manager, Education and Events

Reports to: Vice President, Education and Events

Salary: Starting salary is $95,000, and will be commensurate with experience and qualifications.

Summary

Reporting to the Vice President, Education and Events, the Manager/Sr. Manager, Education and Events is responsible for planning, coordinating, and managing logistics for the National Alliance for Care at Home (the Alliance) events. These events include conferences, convenings, galas, and committee/council meetings – all designed to be member-facing and tailored to meet the needs and interests of the Alliance’s diverse membership base.

This role involves delivering high-quality, engaging, and impactful events that align with the association’s mission and objectives while enhancing member engagement. Additionally, the Manager/Sr. Manager will be managing external vendors and contractors ensuring all aspects of event planning are executed seamlessly.

The ideal candidate will possess strong analytical and solution-oriented thinking, exceptional budgetary management skills, and the ability to lead cross-departmental teams. They will also demonstrate strategic and creative thinking paired with outstanding organizational abilities, to successfully execute a wide range of events, both virtual and in-person.

Supervisory Responsibilities
This position involves supervising event-related vendors and manages cross departmentally through many channels including, but not limited to, the Conference and Events Planning team and internal workgroups.

This position may occasionally supervise interns, new hires, and temporary employees.
Staff supervisory responsibilities may evolve and develop.

The Manager/Sr. Manager will provide guidance and recommends appropriate staff structures and cross training opportunities to ensure team effectiveness. This position manages external vendor partners (including, but not limited to, audio visual services, virtual meeting services, entertainment, security, insurance, emergency services, transportation, photography/videography, freight, hotel, ground transportation companies, restaurants, etc.).

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

General

Works cross-departmentally to conceptualize, plan and execute activities and/or manage the contributions of other departments to the successful organization of meetings.
Maintains the “Partnering on Meetings” guide for staff planning and member events that pop-up throughout the year.
Leads the Advocacy/Fly-In event for the policy/advocacy team and gala logistics for the Foundation while maintaining ultimate collaboration with the core affiliate team.
Provides strategic expertise and consults with internal staff, external stakeholders, and members to determine event goals, objectives, budget, and desired outcomes.
Builds and maintains strong internal and member relationships.
Identifies and creatively assesses national association meeting trends.
Strategizes new and innovative ways to deliver events, meetings, and education to increase engagement.
Evaluates processes for quality improvement participates in event debriefs.
Leverages conference and event planning team as the center for excellence, ensuring information, event resources (including templates and best practice guidelines) are used.
Creatively collaborates to distribute and validate learning in multiple channels as needed.
Active member in professional education committees and able to act on all feedback and guidance as given by the committees.
Serves as back-up support to live educational events as needed such as webinars and online learning course facilitation.