Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. GreenBlue Org is an environmental nonprofit dedicated to promoting a sustainable materials economy. They are seeking a Project Manager for their Marketing and Communications team to oversee event planning, budgeting, and coordination, while also supporting marketing initiatives and stakeholder engagement.
Responsibilities
- Play a central role in GreenBlue events and partner events’ planning and organization
- Be responsible for budgeting and financial management, budget reconciliation and managing event expenditures
- Take the lead in vendor coordination and logistics
- Create detailed timelines and act as project manager for the team, per event, coordinating the different roles and responsibilities and team communication
- Be responsible to monitor and track GB’s room block commitments at venues and proactively resolve challenges as they present
- Manage on-site event execution, consider risk management and prepare contingency plans for unexpected scenarios
- Support the marketing of GreenBlue events, coordinating with the Associate Director Marketing Communication on marketing campaigns for events
- Support Associate Director Marketing Communications in post-event long form content creation and event recaps
- Support sponsorships delivery and develop strong relationships with sponsors and supporting partners to increase retention year over year
- Coordinate exhibit hall logistics and related vendors
- Support Marketing Communications team as needed
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in marketing, communications or event management and minimum 7 years of related work experience or equivalent combination, including at least 5 years' experience in a similar role
- Experience working at or with a nonprofit organization
- Experience in stakeholder engagement and event logistics
- Excellent written and verbal communications skills
- Experience with Event marketing campaigns planning and implementation
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office, Adobe Suite, Canva and event tech stack including presentations (slide decks) management
- Experience with website management, especially with Wordpress
- Experience cultivating, negotiating, and managing relationships with key stakeholders and vendors
- Experience writing event marketing copy (long and short form)
- Experience fostering an environment of creativity and professional growth
- Experience working in a matrixed environment and collaborating and implementing multiple projects
- Are creative, have an outstanding work ethic, a can-do attitude and are a problem solver
- Have experience talking about and writing about climate and sustainability topics
- Have outstanding attention to detail
- Are incredibly proactive and great at anticipating challenges
- Are incredibly organized, assertive and self-motivated and self-reliant
- Are a strong writer and communicator
- Enjoy people and are good at building relationships with stakeholders (virtually and in person)
- Enjoy designing event experiences and attendee journeys
- Get excited about developing and implementing new digital marketing strategies
- Possess exceptional negotiating skills
- Enjoy working in collaboration with a team in a fast-paced environment
- Are flexible, adaptable and a quick thinker
- Enjoy both planning and strategy execution
- Experience using Clickup is a plus
- Ideally have experience supervising 1-2 team members
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