Job Overview
Employment Type
Part-time
Compensation
Type:
Hourly
Rate:
Range $20.39 - $33.13
Work Schedule
Flexible
Weekend Shifts
Benefits
Generous Paid Time Off
Pension Plan
Supplemental insurance plans
Voluntary term life and AD and D benefits
AFLAC insurance
Job with a good purpose
Job Description
The Salvation Army's Divisional Headquarters is a key organizational hub for the American branch of The Salvation Army, an international evangelical movement with a mission rooted deeply in the Christian faith. The Salvation Army is widely recognized for its commitment to preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ and addressing human needs without bias or discrimination. Operating throughout the United States and worldwide, The Salvation Army provides a variety of social services, emergency disaster relief, and community support programs. This organization upholds a strong value system grounded in compassion, equality, and dedicated service to all people regardless of race, color, religion,... Show More
Job Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in business or related field such as hospitality or project management
- Minimum 2 years of experience in events planning
- Experience supervising and working with professionals or volunteers
- Experience managing multiple projects simultaneously
- Experience training volunteers, staff, or partners
- Understanding of The Salvation Army's mission
- Ability to maintain confidentiality, discretion, and sound judgment
- Excellent organizational skills
- Cultural sensitivity and knowledge of community resources
- Proficiency in Microsoft applications and other relevant software
- Strong communication skills
- Capability to work independently and collaboratively
- Ability to multi-task while maintaining high-quality, detailed work
- Willingness to work during weekends and evenings as necessary
Job Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in business or related field such as hospitality or project management
- Minimum 2 years' experience in events planning
- Experience supervising and working with professionals/volunteers
- Must have experience managing multiple projects at one time
- Must have experience training others including volunteers, staff, and partners
- Must understand the mission of The Salvation Army
- Must be able to exercise confidentiality, discretion, and judgment
- Must have excellent organizational skills
- Must be culturally sensitive and have knowledge of community resources
- Computer expertise in Microsoft applications and other specific software
- Multi-faceted communication skills
- Must be able to work independently and as a team member
- Ability to multi-task and still provide high quality, detailed work
- Must be willing to work weekends and evenings as needed
Job Duties
- Manage The Salvation Army's Greater Boston event management, recruitment materials, newsletters, and ensuring that other communications are factually accurate and reflect the 'voice' of The Salvation Army with correct grammar, spelling and punctuation
- Coordinate the management of the Greater Boston Events database or respective database, managing the volunteer database and maximize its capacity for efficiency and effectiveness
- Demonstrate strategic thinking, generate enthusiasm for the special events, assist in the development of meaningful opportunities for volunteers/volunteer teams in collaboration with the respective Advancement Team, Corps Officers and staff and any department we work with related to events
- Serve as the lead for event planning, production and will lead all event planning meetings and discussions, manage on-site production and clean up for events as necessary and coordinate follow-up with vendors, sponsors and Corps following each event, communicate calendar of event dates, vision, goals, etc. of distribution events, drives/collections with key stakeholders including Advancement, corporate partners, committee volunteers, Corps Officers, Social Ministries department and Divisional leadership
- Prepare and submit budget and funding sources to supervisor for review and approval
- Work with Human Resources to process background checks on all volunteers
- Ensure that appropriate contact action data is tracked in the appropriate database to provide the full picture of event management and ensuring that we are assisting consumer/client relationships and business relationships with The Salvation Army
- In concert with Greater Boston Regional Social Ministries Manager manage clerical and operations aspects of the Greater Boston annual distribution events including task management and logistics, committee/stakeholder meeting coordination and communication, and identification of funding needs to meet goals
- In concert with the Social Ministries Department, communicate in advance with Corps Officers and other appropriate staff the availability of resources and/or dates to ensure proper coordination intake processing in advance and at onsite event registration/check-in
- Support the Social Ministries Department and to a limited degree other Departments in the implementation of National, Territorial, and Divisional promotions with corporate partners to collect toys, school supplies, and other items
- Organize, coordinate, and communicate drives/collections with Corps Officers/Service Extension Unit, track progress and reporting documents
- Provide final event reports/summaries to Greater Boston Regional Social Ministries Manager for review and discussion
- Remain up to date with all KeepSAfe training and make sure volunteers and other staff are up to date
- Perform other duties within the scope of the position as requested/needed
Job Qualifications
Experience
Mid Level (3-7 years)
Job Location
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