We are a boutique consultancy focused on blending the art of innovative, creative thinking, and design with the science of strategic planning and measurement to help our clients produce events that deliver audience and business impact. We provide event strategy, program design and management, speaker strategy and management, and measurement consulting and facilitation services to corporate marketing and event leaders. Impact Point also offers a personality profile called iMAP and related program and services to improve the performance of event and marketing teams. Facilitated workshops are a key component of our consulting solutions across all of our service lines. Founded in 2007, Impact Point Group is proud to be a certified women-owned business.

Who We Are

We are a team of inspired, creative problem-solvers.  Each and every one of us brings our “A” game to our craft every single day. We blend scientific approaches with creative, inventive ideation in order to help our clients use events as a cornerstone of their brand experience.

We operate with inventiveness, integrity, honesty, clarity, efficiency, transparency, and optimism. We engage collaboratively and proactively with our peers, colleagues, and clients. We are our clients’ biggest fans and most trusted advisors. We bring our unique talents to bear on every client engagement. We each strive to continually improve ourselves and to grow and evolve our skills and expertise—and collectively our guiding principle is to always do our best work to make a positive impact on those we touch.

We are seeking a contract-to-hire consultant to fill a mid-level, event marketing program strategist position, primarily supporting a client's in-house team in planning their large-scale, annual customer conference. The role is a blend of event marketing, content strategy and agenda development, audience experience design, event theme development, speaker recruitment and management, as well as general timeline, project coordination and client stakeholder communications and engagement. This is not an event planning or logistics position.

We are seeking candidates to collaborate with us as a part-time contractor for up to six months and can offer an average of 20 hours/week of paid training and client deliverable work during that time. If the contractor engagement goes well, we anticipate offering a full-time, salaried role to the contractor. We anticipate the contract-to-hire conversion taking place at six months or sooner, depending on client work demand.

• Support event agenda development, speaker strategy and recruitment, and management of 3-5, 1-day or shorter, audience-specific sub-programs that take place concurrently with the main conference event (i.e. a student program, women’s networking events, executive leadership event, etc.)
• Evaluate requests for new activities/programs that come via the client’s internal teams and help design their presence at the annual conference
• Prepare event recommendations, content/agenda concepts, and speaker recommendations for senior-level executives 
• Provide support to event strategy lead consultant on content, messaging, and creative strategy for keynotes scheduled at the event
• Provide general project coordination support for the keynote content process (includes preparing presentations summarizing content recommendations, scheduling rehearsals, etc.)
• Manage interaction with external speakers and internal speakers from client organization, including preparing speaker briefing materials, logistics support, rehearsals, etc.
• Manage the scheduling of client internal speakers and external speakers across numerous programs using the client’s in-house scheduling tool
• Participate in customer speaker engagement meetings led by client to represent customer presenters across programs managed
• Prepare presentations and other materials and assets, website content, etc., as needed to support both the external marketing plan and internal communications about the event
• Match content strategy with event goals, create and track measurements and metrics including event surveys
• Prepare final reports for specific areas of program responsibility (keynotes, audience-specific programs, etc.) to assess event impact at close of the event
• Manage external relationships (agencies, vendors) where applicable and work with internal teams (i.e. creative services, interactive, marketing ops) which support direct efforts and collaborate closely to develop and successfully execute programs
• Support, as needed, miscellaneous other event strategy to support lead consultant: work includes global event portfolio strategy, audience acquisition, event promotions, sponsorship sales and marketing, executive event programming, etc.
• Conduct project management and related administration for projects, including developing and managing timelines 
• Travel for this position is estimated at approximately 25%, depending on client assignments

Skills:

• Excellent customer/client diplomacy and can coach consensus-oriented teams to decisions
• Strategic thinker, able to translate big concepts into understandable, actionable event plans 
• Trend spotter and news/information junkie—whether pop culture, global economics, technology, social, sustainability, or human rights issues
• Strong writer who can quickly generate content, materials, and presentations
• Natural communicator, good presenter, and comfortable coaching speakers constructively
• Relentlessly resourceful and able to drive projects autonomously, with limited oversight
• Tenacity to dig in and tackle the hard work of making things happen, often on deadline
• Tech-savvy, ability to embrace and use business software applications adeptly

• • Mastery of Microsoft PowerPoint, Excel, and Word
  • Mac-proficient

Experience:

• A minimum of 5 years’ experience developing and managing content, speakers, and attendee experience for events/conferences (required)
• Experience in large-scale conferences (10,000+ attendees) and mid-size conferences (1,000–5,000 attendees), preferably within B2B or technology industries
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience required, preferably in marketing, communications, or journalism
• Balance of client/agency experience in a relevant event strategy or planning role
• Experience in digital, social, and mobile technologies, strategies and tactics
• Experience managing teams and cross-functional projects preferred