CNHF Assistant Director Special Events

Children's National Hospital; Silver Spring (MD); On-site; USD 58,000 - 97,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Generous PTO

401(k) plan

Life Insurance

Job summary

Children’s National Hospital in Silver Spring, MD, seeks an Assistant Director of Events to plan, staff, and execute community-based fundraising events for a single campaign. You will build donor relationships, lead event teams, and collaborate with major gift officers to develop fundraising concepts.

The role emphasizes strategic planning, budget oversight, and donor engagement across channels. The position requires a Bachelor’s degree and at least four years of related fundraising or event

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Marketing, Communications or related field (Required)
• 4 years of technical development experience including with proven major gifts, high-end annual gifts or event execution, or managing a component of the marketing program (Required)
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, clear and articulate speech
• Proactive, energetic, confident with donor service mindset and teamwork focus
• High professionalism, compassion, creativity and integrity
• Proven donor relationship cultivation experience
• Ability to devise strategies and tactics to reach goals
• Excellent time management and task completion abilities
• Familiarity with donor platforms like Raiser's Edge

Responsibilities

• Plan, coordinate and organize events for a single campaign or channel.
• Develop and maintain an extensive internal/external network to facilitate event coordination.
• Serve as main planning-to-execution contact and develop complete timelines.
• Collaborate with Events Committees and Major Gift Officers for concepts and designs.
• Coordinate mailings, logistics, budgets, and vendor contracts; manage staffing and expenditures.
• Execute events with vendor coordination, content updates, post-event summaries and on-site supervision.
• Provide on-site oversight, address issues, and guide volunteers and staff during events.
• Ensure contract terms are met and assist with pre/post-event duties as needed.

Skills

Communication

Interpersonal skills

Donor relations

Time management

Event project

Fundraising strategy

Teamwork

Donor software

Education

Bachelor's Degree Business Administration

Tools

The Raiser's Edge

Job description

Kids Are Our Everything.

Department

10540 AVP, CHF Events, Stewardship & Board Mgt

Pay Range

$57,969.60 - $96,616.00 The Assistant Director organizes, executes and staffs small to midsize community-based fundraising events for a single campaign or single channel. Additionally, the Assistant Director will support broader cultivation and stewardship efforts, projects, initiatives and campaigns as needed. Provides a world-class experience that leaves donors feeling valued, informed and engaged.

What You'll Bring:

Minimum Education

Bachelor's Degree Business Administration, Marketing, Communications or other related field (Required)

Minimum Work Experience

4 years of technical development experience including with a proven record in lower level major gifts, high end annual gifts or special event execution, or managing a component of the marketing program. (Required)

Required Skills/Knowledge

Strong written and verbal communication skills (including phone skills such as warm tone, good speaking cadence, clear and articulate speech)

Effective interpersonal skills that demonstrate poise, tact, patience, and courtesy

Must demonstrate initiative, energy, confidence, strong donor service attitude, and willingness to contribute to a teamwork-driven environment

High levels of professionalism, compassion, creativity and integrity

Proven experience in successfully building and cultivating donor relationships

A willingness to work collaboratively to produce fundraising strategies and tactics

Proven sense for developing tactics to meet goals and objectives

Ability to manage time and task completion effectively

Strong familiarity with The Raiser's Edge software and/or other donor-related platforms

Functional Accountabilities

Plan, Coordinate and Organize Events

• Coordinates and organizes small to midsize community-based fundraising events for a single campaign or single channel.
• Develops and maintains an extensive network of contacts, both internal and external, to facilitate event coordination.
• Serves as the main point of contact from planning through execution.
• Develops complete project timeline.
• Collaborates with Events Committees and Major Gift Officers to develop concepts and designs.
• Coordinates mailings of promotional materials and invitations and directs logistical planning.
• Determines staffing needs for special events and assigns duties to ensure success.
• Assists with the development budgets and tracks spending.
• Negotiates and contracts with vendors for a variety of goods and services related to special event planning.
• With oversight from supervisor, may negotiate financial terms and authorize expenditures.
• Assists with other Foundation events such as Race for Every Child and the Employee Giving Campaign, as needed.

Execute Events

• Serves as event liaison between the client and vendors, donors, etc. for community-based events providing information to interested groups as requested.
• Handles third party management of delivery vehicles, photographers, florist, catering, and transportation services to ensure seamless presentation and positive brand experience.
• Generates all correspondence to clients, including proposal letters, and thank-you letters.
• Supports coordination of social media platform marketing to include Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and provides website content updates.
• Builds and delivers digital assets on time.
• Maintains accurate records on event activities, progress, status, and prepares post event summary.
• Attends event to oversee activities and ensure details are handled as planned.
• Addresses any issue that may arise and remains on site after the event is over to ensure proper clean up.
• Works with and give guidance to volunteers and staff involved in event planning and execution.
• Monitors delivery of goods and services to ensure contract terms are satisfied.
• Performs other pre- and post-event responsibilities as assigned or requested by clients.
• Be open to constructive feedback.

Benefits That Support You:

• Comprehensive health coverage, including medical, prescription, infertility, and transgender health services.
• Generous paid time off, including vacation accrual from day one, sick leave, holidays, and a personal day.
• Financial wellness support, including a 401(k) plan and healthcare and dependent care spending accounts.
• Employer-paid life, AD&D, and long-term disability coverage, with optional supplemental plans.
• Additional perks, including tuition assistance, fitness resources, employee assistance, commuter benefits, and more.

Why Join Us:

• Nationally Recognized Excellence – Consistently ranked among the Top 10 Children’s Hospitals in the nation by U.S. News & World Report.
• Leading Pediatric Care – One of the largest and most comprehensive children’s hospitals in the country, offering nationally ranked specialties and cutting-edge treatments.
• Innovation & Research – A premier academic medical center with a strong commitment to pediatric research, education, and advancing the future of child health.
• Mission-Driven Culture – Dedicated to providing family-centered care while fostering a collaborative, supportive environment for clinical teams.

The disclosed salary range includes the minimum and maximum rates within which Children’s National believes an individual’s base pay rate will fall for this position. It is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the maximum of the pay range. The exact pay rate for this position will be based on a variety of factors in alignment with the Children’s National compensation philosophy. These factors are legitimate and non-discriminatory including, but not limited to, the current market conditions; organizational needs; the individual’s combination of prior work experience, level of education, knowledge, skills, and other qualifications. Children’s National is committed to providing a fair and competitive total rewards package to each of our employees. This base salary range does not include our comprehensive benefits package or any additional compensation for which this position may be eligible.

Childrens National Hospital is an equal opportunity employer that evaluates qualified applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, marital status, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender, identity, or other characteristics protected by law. The “Know Your Rights” poster is available here: and the pay transparency policy is available here:Know Your RightsPay Transparency Nondiscrimination Poster.

Please note that it is the policy of Children's National Hospital to ensure a “drug-free” work environment: a workplace free from the illegal use, possession or distribution of controlled substances (as defined in the Controlled Substances Act), or the misuse of legal substances, by all staff (management, employees and contractors). Though recreational and medical marijuana are now legal in the District of Columbia, Children’s National and its affiliates maintain the right, in accordance with our policy, to enforce a drug‑free workplace, including prohibiting recreational or prescribed marijuana.