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Associate Director, Events & Communications, ELA
Los Angeles, CA (On-site)
$75K/yr – $91K/yrSenior Level8+ years expFull time
Posted 6 weeks ago
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Job Summary
Own the end-to-end events program for ELA across campus and off-site, balancing a strategic calendar, cross‑department workflows, and budget with a strong communications spine across social and public channels.
- Own large-scale event planning across Alumni, student showcases, masterclasses, and public programs with cross‑department coordination.
- Lead communications: social media and event publicity while aligning with Emerson's central marketing and branding.
- Manage a events and communications team, budgeting, vendor relations, and centralized governance to ensure consistent execution.
Job Description
- Provide leadership and oversight for all ELA events, both on-campus and off-campus, ensuring high-quality execution and alignment with institutional goals.
- Plan, execute, and manage large-scale events for students, alumni, and the public, ensuring high-quality experiences and logistics.
- Develop and maintain a comprehensive events calendar, coordinating timing, sequencing, and resource allocation across departments.
- Establish clear processes and workflows for event planning, approval, and execution across ELA.
- Oversee the planning and delivery of key event categories, including Alumni and industry networking events, Student showcases and screenings, Masterclasses, lecture series, and guest talks, Public-facing programs and partnerships and Select student life and community-building events.
- Delegate and coordinate event responsibilities across staff, ensuring efficient and professional execution.
- Monitor booking, space reservations and requests, to ensure coordination of space use with events programming.
- Oversee ELA’s communications strategy across social media, digital platforms, and event-related publicity.
- Manage and supervise the ELA Marketing and Communications staff member, providing direction, prioritization, and oversight.
- Coordinate with Emerson’s central Marketing and Communications team to align messaging, branding, and institutional priorities.
- Bachelor's degree in Education or Social Sciences or 7-10 years’ equivalent experience working with students in higher ed, specifically in the areas of programming, events management or customer service required.
- In addition to the above, at least 5 years of demonstrated experience managing both large-scale events and communications strategies required.
- Proficient in online social engagement platforms (Google Hangout, Zoom, etc.).
- Excellent Customer service skills.
- Demonstrated ability to use a proficient level of software applications in word processing, spreadsheets, and databases, graphics, internet, social media, email, and Google Suite.
- Strong knowledge of marketing, programming, event operations, and risk management aligned with campus programming practices and standards.
- High level organization skills and the ability to manage multiple projects at once.
- Ability to work independently on assigned projects and prioritize efficiently and effectively.
- Positive, team-oriented, with a proven record of collaboration.
- Effectively communicate (written and verbal) with a broad spectrum of stakeholders (staff, faculty, students, guests).
- Proficiency in online social engagement platforms (Google Hangout, Zoom, etc.) is desirable.
- In addition to a competitive salary, Emerson College is committed to the health and well-being of our employees and family members. We offer a generous benefits package to regular staff scheduled to work 20+ hours per week.
- Emerson Employment Categories influence work schedules, benefits eligibility, and time off policies. Benefits include outstanding health plans with limited out-of-pocket expenses, dental plans, generous time-off programs, and a 403(b) retirement benefit with a 9% employer contribution once eligible. Additional benefits, such as life and disability coverage and commuter offerings, are available.
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Emerson College
Emerson College is internationally recognized as the nation’s premier institution of higher learning devoted to communication and the arts. Energized by engagement with the creative life of Boston, Los Angeles, and the Netherlands, our students are independent minds from diverse backgrounds who develop their own personal voice and expertise in professions that profoundly shape society and culture in the 21st century.
