Senior Manager, Special Events – Northern NJ & PA

🕒 August 5

🏖️ New Jersey, Pennsylvania – Remote

🏖️ New Jersey – Remote 🔔 Pennsylvania – Remote

💵 $67k - $80k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🎪 Events

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Autism Speaks

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2005

🏥 Healthcare

🛡️ Insurance

🤝 Non-profit

Healthcare • Insurance • Non-profit

Autism Speaks is an organization dedicated to enhancing the lives of individuals on the autism spectrum by providing resources, support, and advocacy. It seeks to improve the understanding of autism and facilitate access to autism services, while also conducting research and offering information on symptoms, screening, and interventions. Additionally, Autism Speaks is involved in policy advocacy to influence autism-related legislation and funding, and organizes fundraising and awareness events to support their initiatives. Through their outreach efforts, they aim to create a world where people with autism can thrive and reach their full potential.

📋 Description

• Raise funds for Autism Speaks through volunteer recruitment and management, awareness-building, corporate sponsorship solicitation, and fundraising and mission events • Achieve revenue goals for assigned fundraising events; current portfolio goal is $460,000 • Establish planning timelines, income goals, expense budgets, and participant recruitment strategies with the supervisor • Execute events with volunteer leadership, including committee recruitment and retention • Implement sponsorship, corporate recruitment and retention, and mission-integration strategies • Support local implementation of Autism Speaks global campaigns • Manage day-to-day event operations, including logistics, data entry, acknowledgements, and materials management • Provide administrative support to volunteer committees • Present to businesses, organizations, and community groups to secure sponsorships and recruit teams and committee volunteers • Manage accounts year-round • Integrate digital marketing initiatives, including email campaigns, fundraising websites, and other digital outreach • Travel throughout New Jersey and areas of Pennsylvania to support events and programs

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience • 5+ years of professional working experience • 5+ years of demonstrated leadership focused on peer-to-peer fundraising, volunteer recruitment and management, relationship-building, networking, budget management, and volunteer mobilization • Proven multifaceted fundraising experience in special events, multiple walk events, and corporate campaigns • Ability to independently recreate and implement fundraising and volunteer development plans • Strong oral and written communication and presentation skills • Organized and detail-oriented • Superb customer service skills • Ability to prospect, recruit, manage, and develop volunteers • Strong analytical skills and sound judgment • Proficiency with MS Office 365 • Database knowledge; Raiser’s Edge and/or Luminate preferred • Willingness to work evenings and weekends as needed • Willingness to travel, including occasional overnight stays • Ability to set up and move event materials and remain actively engaged onsite for prolonged periods • Regular computer use for extended periods • Reliable automobile, valid driver’s license, and required insurance

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive compensation, benefit and vacation package • Flex work hours • Weekly training sessions • Tuition reimbursement • Summer bonus Fridays • Creative, innovative, collaborative, inclusive, kind and fun work environment