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Seneca Resources

Special Event Specialist

Seneca Resources, Washington, District of Columbia, us, 20022

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Base Pay Range $60.00/yr - $70.00/yr

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Role:

Specialist of Meetings, Events & Conventions

Location:

Washington, DC (Onsite/Travel)

Duration:

Direct Hire

Clearance:

N/A

Department:

Meetings, Events & Convention

Reports to:

Director, Meetings, Events & Convention

Summary The Specialist, Meetings, Events & Convention provides high level support and oversight for the convention and meeting activities of NECA, including NECA’s Annual Convention. This role also coordinates budgets, schedules, calendars, and websites for meetings.

Education & Experience

Requisite Education & Experience:

Ensures that practices are customer‑centric and focused on developing and enhancing the member experience while adhering to established policies.

Ability to analyze complex situations, often on the fly and sometimes after hours.

Ability to function both independently and in a team‑oriented collaborative environment.

Capable of setting priorities when multiple demands are present.

Knowledge of hotels, conventions and/or associations is a plus.

Ability to lift 40 pounds.

Must have exceptional skills in editing documents, memos, and spreadsheets; experience using Office 365 and MS Teams is desired.

Working Conditions

Significant travel will be required. General office work environment.

Full time, thirty‑five hour work week (8:30-4:30, M-F) unless otherwise noted.

NECA offers an exceptional benefits package including employer‑paid employee insurance, generous 401k contribution and transportation subsidy.

This role is working a typical in‑office schedule with some work from home allowed.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

Participates in the full life cycle of events from design, planning, implementation, and post‐event evaluation.

Creates and manages staff schedule, meetings calendar, the meeting department’s tabs in Teams/Office 365, and builds on the meetings history spreadsheet.

Provides support for NECA meetings and functions; assists departments with dinner and local activities at events.

Use NECA’s meetings history to make sure that contracts are correctly blocked before they are routed for signature.

Plan and execute meetings and events, help all departments with dinner and events as needed, extensive travel required.

Provides information and resolves challenges that attendees may encounter. Advises members and chapters on meeting venues and restaurant recommendations for dinners in association with other functions at meetings.

Assists members and chapters with online registration and housing, answers incoming calls, checks voicemail, provides email responses, and performs other administrative duties including attending staff meetings.

Assists in the preparation for the NECA Convention and ancillary meetings.

Prepares signs, plaques, badges, registration packets; ships materials and proofreads marketing material for all meetings.

Monitors and updates supplier contacts, coordinates supplier in‑house lunch‑n‑learns for meetings department and participates in industry education.

Assists in cultivating the relationship between the meetings department and NECA’s members and chapters.

Facilitates visitors and meetings in the NECA office. Helps chapters secure off‑site dinners at meetings. Provides recommendations on venues and restaurants. Makes introductions to local vendors. Supports with documentation as required.

Seniority Level Associate

Employment Type Full‑time

Job Function Business Development

Industries Travel Arrangements

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