At a glance

Skills

Campaigning
Event management
Social media marketing

Where

London, EC1V 2NX

Remote opportunity

Time

Mostly during office hours Estimate of time needed:
7-15 hours / week

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Work with Social Impact and wider Marketing team to develop and deliver a structured programme of events throughout the year with the objective to raise awareness about ADC's work to empower communities through organizing events on social media.

What will you be doing?

African Development Choices (ADC) is a UK-based Social Enterprise on a mission to reduce poverty by empowering communities to make more informed choices in the management of public resources.

ADC’s purpose is to enable communities to independently meet their needs for essential services, such as clean water and safe sanitation and improve lives in Africa.

At ADC we encourage a working culture of seeking and giving input, showing and taking initiative, and commitment to the organisation and its purpose.

We now have an exciting opportunity for a remote-based volunteer Events Manager to join ADC.

What are we looking for?

Main Duties and Responsibilities:

Set out how the individual events and programme as a whole will contribute to the empowerment of communities and work with the social impact team to set KPIs / tangible outcomes
Responsible for the organisation and facilitation of events hosted by ADC that deliver on the organisational objectives and mirror ADC value
Work with the wider marketing team to promote and advertise the events to the target audience, driving attendance and engagement
Find and secure guest speakers who are subject matter experts in topics such as; WASH (water, sanitation and hygiene), civic advocacy and engagement, and the development and delivery of essential physical infrastructure, and work with them to deliver events and content that align with ADC’s objectives
Solicit feedback from event attendees post-event and iterate future events format and content accordingly

Knowledge, Skills, Education, and Expertise

Essential

Experience in events coordination and management of events on Social Media.
A knowledge and understanding of international development
Exceptional networking skills, working with key panel members, hosts to coordinate successful events.
Experience in hosting events on Microsoft Teams or other social media platforms
Experience of setting KPI’s or monitoring and evaluation
Available to volunteer at least 7-10 hours a week
Ability to actively take initiative and help set things up in a start-up environment
Ability to actively seek and give input in a collaborative team environment
A committed team player with good communication skills.

Desirable

Experience working with or in countries in East Africa/Kenya
Experience working in an early stage star-tup and gone through a scaling phase
Passion for the start-up life and comfortable in a role with a little ambiguity.

What difference will you make?

Work with the Social Impact and wider Marketing team to develop and deliver a structured programme of events throughout the year with the objective to raise awareness about ADC's work to empower communities thorugh organising events on social media.

About African Development Choices

Causes

Children / families

International development

Organisation type:

Not for profit

Our vision is of a world in which everyone has access to the essential services necessary to fight poverty.

Social Media Events Manager (Remote)