Washington DC-Baltimore Area
• Lead programming for the executive Dialogues series, curating high-level events for top stakeholders and managing project execution, content, and speaker engagement across teams • Manage the Author Talks series for the Milken Institute’s annual Global Conference, including speaker outreach, run of show development, collateral coordination, and on-site execution • Serve as primary liaison for high-level speakers including Fortune 500 CEOs and government leaders, ensuring seamless communication and experience across marquee events and tracking engagement in Salesforce • Streamline Dialogues series operations by creating a standardized programming process that clarifies timelines, ownership, and feedback loops across departments
• Lead organization’s board engagement, including planning board meetings; coordinating across teams and senior leadership to draft, edit, and compile board materials and updates; tracking legal compliance; managing budgets; recording interactions in Blackbaud; and communicating complex logistics to external partners • Provide executive support and thought partnership to President, CEO, and COO; coordinate engagements and schedules; draft correspondence and briefings; identify priorities; and support annual planning and budgeting • Manage senior leadership meetings and retreats; Craft external-facing presentations for senior leadership • Coordinate and draft grant proposals and reports, working across internal teams and complying with deadlines • Direct the planning and project management of all-staff retreat for over 100 staff in Morocco • Serve as project manager for organization’s advocacy campaign to reform multilateral development banks • Serve as project manager for strategic transformation and one-third reduction in workforce, including leading daily standups, liaising with consultants, drafting strategic communications, ensuring timely delivery of products, and coordinating team of senior leaders utilizing Agile methodology
• Supported the Live Department’s planning and production of high-profile, newsworthy event programs highlighting a broad range of national policy issues and breaking news and featuring experts in their fields, politicians, and business executives • Responsible for logistics for all POLITICO events, including but not limited to, venue selection, A/V vendor management, and marketing emails with goals of elevating the newsroom, educating an audience, and satisfying clients • Oversaw the transition of POLITICO Live to POLITICO Virtual events from technology research and implementation (GoToWebinar, Zoom, Socialive) to user experience • Managed relationships with internal stakeholders to streamline event from conception to execution as well as with external vendors - from hotels and caterers to design and production companies • Published event invitations and other communication via Splash Marketing platform to engage with and encourage participation of attendees • Managed individual event budgets ranging from $30,000 to $120,000