Director of Conference Programming

LIMRA, LOMA, and our parent organization, LL Global Inc., are an international research and education trade association for the insurance, retirement, and financial services industries, serving the needs of more than 1,200 member companies across 64 countries.

Leading life insurance and financial services organizations around the world rely on their membership for one simple reason - they can make bottom-line decisions with greater confidence.

Companies look to us because no other organization is better positioned to help them understand their customers, markets, distribution channels, and competitors.

We believe that greatness is built from the inside out. It is created by individuals who share common goals, and who support and rely on one another to achieve them.

Our core values (Integrity, Customer Focus, Adaptability, Respect and Excellence) guide us in how we treat, respond to, and interact with our Customers, and one another.

We do our best to support our employees in making the most of their lives both inside and outside of work.

We are looking for a successful and enthusiastic Director of Convening Programming to build programming and conference storytelling with varied stakeholders through narratives, emotions, industry insights and experiences to create a cohesive and immersive event journey through building programming to captivate and connect conference experience with attendees through convening strategies.

The Director of Convening Programming balances a range of responsibilities, including strategic convenings, content production, and audience outreach and development : averaging 20-25 conferences and meetings annually.

Responsibilities :

• Collaborate with key stakeholders to have a clear understanding of each event’s objective and goals.
• Collaborate and conduct discovery sessions with Conference Leaders and select Member Collaboration Groups to develop conference programming and shape attendee engagement that aligns with the event objectives, identified audiences, programmatic priorities, and convening strategies.
• Work in partnership with the Head of Convening / LLG leadership and Conference Leads to develop and execute the overall convening programming strategy.
• Support speaker procurement and research with event planners. Help maintain strong relationship with approved list of visitors and speaker’s bureaus.
• Oversee and champion demand generation tactics for ticket sales and partner with Marketing and Customer Service to develop and deliver appropriate solicitation.
• Provide regular updates to management on programming development status, and audience engagement.
• Manage audience growth, analysis and reporting for each conference / event.
• Track and manage expenses to budget and provide updated budget vs. actuals to management and finance.
• Ensure senior managers are kept informed of events, calendar, and other key department dates.
• Help to establish programming metrics, effectiveness of programming for each conference, and conduct post-mortem analysis across functions to improve impact of event programming.
• Keep abreast of industry trends, topics, and what is on our members minds’ to support translating that detail into strategy and effective conference programming development.

Qualifications and Requirements :

• Bachelor's degree strongly preferred (preferably in Marketing, Business, or Communications) or equivalent experience
• At least 7+years’ experience building event strategies and programs
• Exceptional project management skills and experience, including managing multiple internal stakeholders
• Experience gaining trust and support from senior stakeholders
• Track record for meeting or exceeding performance goals and working within a budget.
• Creativity, flexibility, adherence to essential forms, styles, voices of the organization
• Skilled at group facilitation creating and leading dialogues and workshops and discovery sessions.
• Project manage conference speakers, talent, presenters, and audio-visual production company on site to ensure all technical riders are managed, content is delivered at a high level and brand compliance is maintained.
• Ability to interact with people at all levels internally and externally, including association members and Board of Directors.
• Ability to manage external vendor resources and relationships.
• Strong negotiation and communication skills
• Candidate must learn or be able to communicate the company’s mission and products through conference programming in a way that commands attention, inspires actions and creates loyalty.
• Excellent time management
• Ability to work well under pressure and with tight deadlines
• Ability to work with autonomy and deal with the ambiguity inherent in reaching disparate audience segments across multiple channels to advance a nonprofit mission.
• Magnificent work ethic and sense of ownership and accountability while demonstrating elevated level of internal cross-functional partnership and collaboration.
• Ability to multi-task and adapt to changing priorities and duties.
• Familiar with hotel practices and possess an overall knowledge of the hotel industry.
• Proficiency with the Microsoft Suite, including Word, Excel, PDF, and PowerPoint
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, multi-project, cross-functional team environment, producing quality outcomes while ensuring all deadlines are met.
• Possess exceptional organizational and interpersonal communication (written and oral) skills.
• Initiative-taking, able to work both independently, and in a team environment.
• Takes initiative and has willingness to take ownership for assigned work.
• Willingness to identify ways to adapt and improve outcomes that encourage greater efficiency before, during and after conferences.
• Adaptable to change.
• Ability to travel in the US and Canada approximately 30% of the time.

LIMRA and LOMA are committed to creating an inclusive workplace. Our commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion extends to hiring individuals with unique perspectives and backgrounds.

The range of experiences and viewpoints that our employees bring to work every day is a vital part of how we help members navigate with confidence.

We are an Equal Opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, ancestry, color, religion, sex, age, marital status, sexual orientation, national origin, medical condition, disability, veteran status, or any other basis protected by law.

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