Director, Strategic Engagements

Summary

Join Jobs for the Future (JFF) as the Director, Horizons Summit! This role involves overseeing the annual Horizons summit, managing a team, and enhancing the attendee experience. You will design and implement strategies, develop content, manage logistics, and build relationships with stakeholders. The ideal candidate has experience managing large-scale events, fundraising, and working with diverse teams. JFF offers a competitive salary, comprehensive benefits, and a flexible work environment.

Requirements

• You bring experience developing, building, supporting, operationalizing strategies to manage complex large-scale events or conferences
• New hires at the Director I level at JFF typically bring 10+ years of prior professional experience through a combination of full-time, part-time, internship, and/or freelance positions
• You bring a background in helping support and manage the technical and logistical needs for large-scale conferences including stage production, F&B, vendor and exhibitor management and hotel operations
• You have experience directly managing people who have provided support for events and indirectly managing contractors and cross-functional teams
• You bring experience leveraging data to help inform best practices to support the growth and development of a conference or event
• You have experience supporting fundraising or development efforts to engage with the continued implementation of events/conferences
• You have experience managing vendors, sponsors, and external partners
• You possess the ability to think strategically about the big picture and long-term goals, while also focusing on the tactical event needs
• You are energized by problem solving complex challenges and providing top-tier customer service to internal and external stakeholders
• You bring creative ideas on how to build and elevate national brands and experiences to a new level
• You have experience creating and managing year-round budgets
• You possess high energy and passion for JFF’s mission and North Star, and the ability to apply JFF’s core values to all areas of your work
• You are energized by stewarding JFF’s DEIBW values and practices within your day-to- day work, including embracing the differences and celebrating the diversity that each individual brings to JFF
• You value building positive and collaborative relationships with others, including people whose identities and backgrounds differ from your own
• You are able and willing to travel up to 30%

Responsibilities

• Design and implement strategies to help and operationalize, fund, and analyze best practices for the Horizons Summit
• Develop event goals, themes, and an engagement strategy in partnership with the Director of Strategic Engagement for the Horizons summit
• Leverage data to help identify and analyze best practices and learnings from projects to share across JFF and to implement best practices with the Horizons Summit
• Identify new ways to streamline and improve work across summit work streams, including incorporating new technologies and systems
• Develop content strategy to help expand and enhance the Horizons experience for participants
• Build out a content governance strategy, content themes, conference topics, innovative and inclusive formats, and channels to curate premium content across the Horizons summit
• Develop actionable, top-tier content across breakouts, special content and main stage. Support the recruitment and management of speakers from audiences across the learn and work ecosystem
• Manage and build out the content development processes, including the development and management of an external RFP and main stage content production
• Create a strategy to cultivate diverse and inclusive relationships and leverage stakeholder expertise to support the Horizon’s summit
• Oversee and help manage a team supporting logistics, content, and VIP experiences across the Horizons event
• Directly manage the work of staff supporting the Horizons summit and indirectly manage cross-functional work teams across the organization (IT, contracts, events, marketing, and production)
• Support internal JFF updates and collaboration across teams
• Build out relationships with JFF’s centers and practices to help build strategy and implement best practices for internal updates and communication
• Develop and manage communications and messaging in partnership with the Director of Marketing to instill a communication strategy for participants attending the Horizons Summit
• Manage and support fundraising to help sponsor and the implementation of the annual Horizons conference
• Oversee and manage external partner and sponsor communications in partnership with JFF’s development team

Benefits

• Competitive salaries
• Comprehensive benefits program
• Flexibility
• Choice
• JFF has offices in Boston, Oakland, and Washington, DC; employees are welcome to use JFF office space to work in-person or hybrid, or completely remote
• Annual home office stipend to all regular full-time and part-time employees
• New employees receive office equipment as needed