The posting
Stand Together is a philanthropic community that helps America’s boldest changemakers tackle the root causes of our country’s biggest problems, from education to the economy, broken communities, and toxic division, among dozens of other pressing issues. We provide our partners with access to resources including funding, thought leadership, a network of peers, and a playbook for applying proven principles to transform lives and society.
As an Events Strategy Program Manager on our Development team, you will help build and lead the program-management capability behind a growing portfolio of high-impact, in-person experiences. You will translate strategy into an operating model that enables senior leaders and cross-functional teams to make sound decisions, prioritize the right opportunities, and move complex work from concept through evaluation. This is a builder role for someone who can create clarity in ambiguity, establish scalable systems and governance, and influence stakeholders without relying on formal authority. If successful, you will strengthen how we plan, coordinate, measure, and continually improve experiences that deepen partner relationships and advance fundraising outcomes.
How You Will Contribute
- Serve as the single point of accountability for moving each in-person experience from intake through execution to debrief, keeping momentum across every hand-off between teams.
- Run the intake and approval flow, receiving each request, triaging it against the established event taxonomy, and routing it to the right decision-makers, keeping the process fast and low-friction.
- Staff and coordinate the steering committee for larger, more complex events, preparing the business case and materials so the committee can decide quickly.
- Actively surface and resolve scheduling and resource conflicts before they strain top-partner relationships.
- Provide portfolio-level oversight across the full slate through a regular calendar check-in cadence.
- Hold the lead-time standard so teams have the runway to design and deliver high-impact experiences, even when last-minute requests press against it.
- Track status across all in-person experiences so that, at any moment, you can say what's on track and what's stuck - and unstick it.
- Drive owner accountability and deadlines.
- Coordinate the post-event debrief and the three-to-four-month and twelve-month look-backs (scheduling them, capturing the inputs, and making sure the data are captured) in partnership with the operations and strategy owners who set the measures.
- Equip partnership advisors with the resulting insights to sharpen forecasting and deepen partner engagement.
- Surface data-driven recommendations for the process and tooling improvements that let us convene more, without losing quality.
What You Will Bring
- A track record as the person others count on to carry complex, cross-functional efforts to completion, keeping many moving parts visible, knowing where things are stuck, and unsticking them.
- The presence and judgment to drive work forward and hold a high bar, gracefully, through influence rather than formal authority.
- Deep experience running structured processes, gates, and approvals on cadence, with the rigor to keep a large, moving portfolio on schedule.
- Strong attention to detail and a bias for follow-through and iteration.
- Ability to align senior leaders and partnership advisors around a shared way of working.
- A record of building trust and driving adoption of new processes.
- Comfort operating with two reporting relationships, proactively keeping both stakeholders informed and aligned, rather than letting priorities triangulate.
- Comfort using data and status information to keep work on track, evaluate how the process is performing, and inform practical improvements.
- Facility with the tools that make coordination visible, calendars, trackers, and approval workflows.
Standout Candidates Will Bring
- Experience with event strategy, event portfolios, donor or partner experiences, or other high-touch convening programs.
- Experience in fundraising, development, philanthropy, or advancement.
- Strong systems thinking and the ability to design scalable solutions across connected teams and processes.
- Fluency with data and reporting, including defining measures and turning insights into recommendations.
- A track record of building trusted cross-functional relationships and aligning teams with different priorities.
- Experience with CRM, portfolio-management, workflow, event, or reporting tools.
What We Offer
Our Values: Working for an organization within the Stand Together philanthropic community is different from many other places. The culture is deeply rooted in Principle Based Management® (PBM®), a framework guided by the principles that drive human progress, such as dignity, openness, and bottom-up empowerment. PBM® empowers employees to be entrepreneurial, to innovate, and to continually drive transformation.
We believe diversity fuels creativity, broadens knowledge, and helps drive success. That is why we’re proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and strive to treat all employees and applicants with honesty, dignity, and respect.
