Blue Star Families
Senior Manager, Event Stewardship and Protocol
Washington, DC · Senior · Full-time
Sponsorship not specified$69k-$88kDetected 9 days ago
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About the role
- A Blue Star Family is one with an immediate family member - a spouse, parent, or child - actively serving in the U.S. Armed Forces, including the Guard and Reserves.
- These families face unique challenges: frequent relocations, deployments, career disruption, and isolation.
- The Senior Manager will execute all phases of stewardship and protocol, ensuring that Blue Star Families fulfills its responsibilities while enhancing donor relations and engagement.
Responsibilities
- Build cross-sector partnerships that get things done
- The Senior Manager, Event Stewardship and Protocol is responsible for creating, implementing, and administering a comprehensive program to ensure that key stakeholders (e.g., senior military, donors, government and elected officials, partners, and celebrities), are effectively stewarded and engaged at BSF events.
- This role encompasses all aspects of stewardship, including creating and managing invitation lists, writing invitations and follow-up correspondence, developing stewardship and engagement plans, and database management for all relevant events ranging in size from 10 to 1,000.
- The Senior Manager will help to create meaningful and memorable experiences for all stakeholders.
- This role requires the ability to build and maintain relationships with senior military leaders, congressional staff, government officials, and other influential stakeholders throughout the National Capital Region.
- Manage invitation lists, invitations, follow-up correspondence and database management for all relevant events.
- Design, plan, and manage stewardship initiatives to enhance donor relations and engagement.
- Attendance and participation in these in-person gatherings are necessary to support collaboration, organizational alignment, and the successful performance of essential job responsibilities.
- Develop, cultivate, and maintain professional relationships with senior military leaders, congressional offices, government officials, and other key stakeholders through regular in-person meetings, events, and community engagement activities in the National Capital Region.
Compensation
- Anticipated Pay Range at Commencement of Employment:: $69,000 - $88,000
- Each year, we support over 1.5 million military- and veteran-connected family members through a national network of 300,000+ members and local chapters in communities across the country.
- Events may include cultivation events, large stakeholder gatherings (e.g., Celebration and annual Stakeholder event), chapter-led events, member events, campaign events (e.g., Do Your Part and Welcome Week), congressional events, and virtual events.
- Team members are required to travel several times per year to attend meetings, trainings, offsites, and events.
Company info
- We make military life awesome for families.
- We listen, share, partner, and act to deliver evidence-based, data-driven solutions that work for real people.
- We're a lifestyle organization, a friend and neighbor, and a trusted partner.
- Our approach is collaborative, human-centered, and designed with the whole family in mind.
- In-person community engagement is an essential function of the role and is necessary to support relationship-building, program delivery, event execution, and the successful performance of essential job responsibilities.
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