Director of Education and Meetings
Boston, MA, United States
Home Care Alliance of Massachusetts, Inc.
Job Description
The Home Care Alliance of Massachusetts seeks an eager and passionate Director of Education and Meetings to manage a robust and growing calendar of live and virtual education, conferences, and trade show events. This position is critical to maintaining our existing educational offerings while helping bring the association into a new era of member needs in the post-pandemic landscape. This full-time position requires a proactive, hands-on, creative problem solver with excellent customer service and negotiation skills. Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written required. Hybrid work schedule, with two days/week in office. Frequent in-state and occasional out-of-state travel required, including some overnight travel.
The successful candidate will be skilled in project and budget management, possessing the ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously, and will have three or more years’ experience related to educational event planning, meetings, and exhibits.
Responsibilities include:
· Collaborate with leadership and ad hoc groups to develop a continuing program of educational programs – both virtual and live – to meet the educational needs of the membership.
· Proactively identify education needs of the membership and resources to meet those needs
· Arrange logistics for all education events, including participation of speakers, negotiating with hotel/conference center staff, on-site coordination of A/V and F&B, preparation of supporting materials.
· Develop marketing and promotional materials, including solicitation of financial sponsorships, to promote educational events and products.
· Coordinate advanced and on-site registrations for all educational programs and conduct post-conference evaluation, financial reconciliation with Accountant, and follow-up.
· Collaborate with staff of similar organizations in neighboring states on regional education program.
· Maintain a system of educational program records, including continuing education certification, as appropriate.
· Collaborate with other management staff to develop the Foundation’s annual budget, and manages finances for all workshops and conferences to achieve budget goals.
· Develop and maintain educational content pages of the Alliance’s web site.
HCA offers a competitive salary, excellent benefits, and a friendly, flexible work environment.
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