Community Engagement and Events Manager

Community Engagement and Events Manager Location Oakton, VA :

For more than 60 years PRS, now HopeLink Behavioral Health (formerly PRS), has provided comprehensive and specialized support to individuals and families living with behavioral health challenges or facing a life crisis. We envision a society where hope is universal. Through access to quality behavioral health, crisis intervention, and suicide intervention services we foster an inclusive community in which everyone can attain wellness and a genuine sense of belonging.

Exciting opportunity under the Director of Resource Development direction, the Community Engagement and Events Manager assists in the overall development and implementation of HopeLink ' Resource Development goals; leads fundraising events, and provides overall volunteer program management and leadership.

SCHEDULE/ LOCATION /SALARY:

• Full-Time
• Oakton, VA.
• $60,000- $65,000-Estimated salary based on qualifications and related experience
• Great Benefits

PRIMARY DUTIES OF THE COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AND EVENTS MANAGER:

• Plan, manage and implement HopeLink's annual signature event, Imagine Hope Benefit (Fall) and Annual Golf Tournament (Spring), in collaboration with the Resource Development department.
• Plan and implement #CallTextLive social media campaign during Suicide Prevention Month in September and Mental Health Awareness Month activities in May.
• Assist in planning donor cultivation and recognition events.
• Lead HopeLink's volunteer recruitment activities, hiring/onboarding, successful integration, and retention for our behavioral health programs (not CrisisLink) and administrative departments.
• Coordinate group volunteer projects for Corporate Partners and other group volunteers.
• Responsible for volunteer database management (Abila) and reports. Update database with information on volunteers regularly.
• Identify in-kind needs from programs and departments and coordinate in-kind donation acceptance, acknowledgments, and distribution of items to programs as needed.
• Assist with planning, drafting and scheduling e-mail newsletters to HopeLink donors and stakeholders.
• Create social media content via Canva and post and maintain presence on social media channels: Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube.
• Capture HopeLink programs and departments' news, including photographing and videoing clients utilizing confidentiality waivers, programs, events, and volunteers.
• Assist in and attend appropriate agency and community meetings as related to duties including HopeLink events, community partner events, HopeLink Board of Director's activities, etc. to build relationships with industry partners and volunteer organizations.

QUALIFICATIONS OF THE COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AND EVENTS MANAGER:

• Bachelor's degree with successful volunteer, event management, and donor relations experience working in a nonprofit development environment, preferably in the human services field.
• 2-5 years of fundraising/event planning experience or related field.
• Excellent organizational, interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills and ability to take initiative with good judgement.
• Ability to work individually and within a team environment and adjust to changes in the workflow as required.
• Computer proficiency relevant to this position i.e., MS Office (PowerPoint, Excel, Publisher, and Word), Adobe programs, Canva, and Abila Fundraising 50 a plus.
• In office 2-3 days per week.

Equal Opportunity Employer. Committed to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

'Where Hope Meets Help.'

HopeLink is an Equal Opportunity Employer