Director of Events - Development

Job Description

Job Description

Job Title : Director of Events - Development

Job Location : Boston, MA

Job Type : Full-Time

Job Description :

• Create strategic plan for Development events in collaboration with Major Gifts and Corporate Partnership teams to meet monetary and non-monetary goals including expanding bases of support, driving sponsorship and solicitations from individuals and corporations, engaging hospital boards and lead volunteers, and executing ancillary fundraising activities.
• Establish and maintain quantitative and qualitative event metrics to provide regular status updates to leadership, evaluate outcomes, inform future events, maximize efficiency and return on investment, and support the development of financial projections and organizational planning. Infuses new ideas and processes to improve current events and proposes new programming to meet the organization’s evolving goals.
• Oversee a small portfolio of signature event donors. Solicit, steward and cultivate donors as needed throughout the donor cycle.
• Play a leadership role in managing event committees and co-chairs, partnering with Corporate and Major Gift team colleagues on goals for engagement, identification, and management.
• Establish systems for evaluating success post-event and soliciting feedback from key stakeholders.
• Develop hospital leader event strategy to maximize engagement with donors and stakeholders; inform and engage hospital leadership through timely and accurate briefings.
• Coach and mentor direct reports and oversee consultants and contractors in the planning and execution of signature fundraising events.
• Oversee the team in providing event planning and logistical support for cultivation events.
• Deliver exceptional guest experience from registration through program execution, partnering with internal teams on messaging goals, use of technology, and more.
• Provide strategic thinking and execution on leveraging events to support relationship building and revenue growth beyond BMC with BMCHS’s two newly added hospitals : BMC Brighton and BMC South.
• Other duties and responsibilities as assigned.