Thursday, December 10, 2015

[KITlist] Conference Speaker Program Manager (970) (Santa Clara, CA)

 

Please direct your responses to: http://tinyurl.com/Working-With-CrawfordGroup


Crawford Group (www.crawfordgroup.com) is looking for a full time/permanent Conference and Speaker Program Manager to join our clients' Corporate Events Team that produces the world's largest gathering of service management professionals using the enterprise cloud services to change the way people work. The Conference and Speaker Program Manager will be a conduit to the amazing content team that drives the conference with over 80% of the presentations delivered by our customers. The Manager will ensure that the agenda is delivered in a way that maximizes the usefulness of the content to our conference attendees.

This is a very collaborative and inclusive work environment where individuals strong on aptitude and attitude will have an opportunity to grow their professional careers through working with some of the most advanced technology and talented developers in the business.

Responsibilities:

Work with track owners, sponsors and the community to ensure the agenda best delivers content to attendees at company events

manage the conference content agenda

Oversee the logistics around speaker registration, management of a standby speaker pool, and creation of the online schedule builder

Manage the space allocation grid for sessions and all room configurations

Manage all (standard and non-standard) session and speaker requirements for A/V equipment and furniture requests

Interact directly with the speakers to ensure they have their speaker agreement, Speaker Resource Center access, deliverable timelines, hotel and registration information

Make any speaker changes within the Lanyon tool and notify all track owners

Ensure that all session room signage is correct and consistent with agenda

Maintain the Speaker Resource Center and all the supporting content within the SRC

Track the session attendee counts and adjust room allocation as needed

Manage the Speaker Ready Room on site



Skills:

3-5 years' combined speaker management/events/project management experience working on large user conferences in the high tech sector

3-5 years' event content management experience

Good written communication skills

Understanding and use of on-line speaker resource tools, preferably Lanyon.

A good understanding of the enterprise cloud services technology space

Ability to interact directly with customers, partners and other speakers

Ability to travel as needed (30%)



Salary: Full time/permanent/salaried employee of client. Competitive total compensation package D.O.E., w2, including annual bonus and comprehensive benefits

Location: This position is fully onsite at clients' office in Santa Clara, CA. No phone calls, please.

Hours/Duration: Standard business hours, ASAP – permanent/full time employee of client

Interested? Please create a profile and upload your samples and resume in Word format to:

http://tinyurl.com/Working-With-CrawfordGroup

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