Events Manager

Tech Coalition; United States; Remote; USD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

The Tech Coalition is seeking an Events Manager to lead planning and delivery of our portfolio of external and internal events, including conferences, convenings, and staff retreats. You will partner with department event owners to translate strategic objectives into polished experiences, while owning the project-management process, logistics, and execution.

Reporting to the Director of Administration, you will drive budgets, timelines, and cross-team coordination to deliver impactful events

Qualifications

• 5+ years of progressively responsible experience planning and delivering professional events.
• Experience leading events with multiple stakeholders and external vendors.
• Strong project management with multiple workstreams and deadlines.
• Experience managing budgets and vendor relationships.
• Strategic thinking with attention to operational detail.

Responsibilities

• Serve as central point of coordination for event planning and execution with strong PM discipline.
• Lead planning, coordination, and execution of the annual conference and related events.
• Develop master event plans with milestones, budgets, and timelines.
• Maintain organization-wide events calendar and align resources.
• Coordinate across programs, member success, public affairs, and leadership to clarify ownership.
• Define event objectives with senior leaders and translate into executable plans.
• Oversee budgets, commitments, expenditures, and early risk detection.
• Source and manage event vendors, venues, production partners, and caterers.
• Direct day-to-day event logistics, including registration, AV, travel, and onsite ops.
• Establish standards, processes, and post-event evaluation for continuous improvement.

Skills

Project management

Event planning

Vendor management

Budget management

Stakeholder communication

Risk management

Cross-functional coordination

Leadership influence

Job description

Background

The Tech Coalition unites the global tech industry to protect children from online sexual exploitation and abuse (OCSEA). No single company can tackle this alone - but together, we’re building a safer digital world for children.

As a trusted partner of the tech industry, we focus on strengthening collective capacity to combat OCSEA. Our community shares expertise and pools knowledge to strengthen all links in the chain, enabling companies of any size to access the tools, resources, and collaboration needed to drive meaningful impact.

Tech Coalition employee values

The Tech Coalition seeks to create the optimal conditions for each team member to make their best contribution to the mission. At the heart of this are four core values we expect all team members to exemplify. We are:

• Committed to one another and to the work. We dig in and get it done. We own the whole mission.
• Capable of purposeful and thoughtful leadership. We are resourceful, well-prepared, organized, and responsible.
• Creative in our approach to our mission. We are thoughtful, agile, and innovative. We seek out new and better ways forward.
• Kind humans. We are friendly, generous, helpful, and considerate.

The role

The Events Manager will lead the planning and delivery of the Tech Coalition’s portfolio of external and internal events, including convenings, conferences, briefings, member events, and staff retreats. Reporting to the Director of Administration, this position will serve as the organization’s central events lead and will work across teams to translate strategic objectives into well-designed, professionally executed experiences. The Events Manager will collaborate closely with event owners in departments, who retain responsibility for event purpose, content, agenda, audience, and desired outcomes, while the Events Manager owns the project‑management process, coordination, logistics, and execution.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the TC’s central point of coordination for event planning and execution, providing strong project management and ensuring that event work is organized, timely, and well executed.
• Lead the planning, coordination, and execution of the TC’s annual conference, beginning with the inaugural independent conference in 2027, in partnership with the teams responsible for program content, audience, and event objectives.
• Develop and maintain master event plans, including milestones, dependencies, decision points, responsibilities, budgets, and critical deadlines, and ensure that all contributors understand their roles.
• Coordinate with the Leadership Team to maintain a balanced organization‑wide events calendar, ensuring appropriate resource availability and distribution of events throughout the year.
• Coordinate internal workstreams across Programs, Member Success, Public Affairs and Communications, Member Development, Administration and Finance, and leadership to ensure clear ownership and timely execution.
• Partner with substantive or project leads, and with the President’s Office for relevant events for staff (like team retreats), to define event objectives, audience, program, agenda, and desired outcomes while preserving those teams’ ownership of substantive content.
• Translate substantive and content decisions into executable event plans, identifying operational implications, dependencies, staffing needs, and decisions required from internal stakeholders.
• Manage event budgets in partnership with the Director of Administration, monitor commitments and expenditures, and identify potential budget issues early.
• Source, evaluate, scope, and manage event‑management firms, venues, production partners, technology providers, caterers, and other vendors, holding them accountable for quality, timelines, and budget.
• Direct the day‑to‑day work of event administrative and logistics support, including contractors, and coordinate external event‑management firms or other specialized support as needed.
• Recommend when event work should be performed internally versus outsourced, and establish a clear division of responsibilities among TC staff, contractors, and vendors.
• Oversee event logistics including venues, registration, production, audiovisual needs, catering, travel, accessibility, signage, materials, attendee experience, and onsite operations.
• Identify risks, surface decisions, resolve gaps in ownership, and surface decisions.
• Establish repeatable processes, standards, tools, and timelines for events across the organization, and maintain visibility across the TC’s event calendar to improve coordination, sequencing, and efficiency.
• Develop measures of success and lead post-event evaluation and lessons learned, incorporating feedback into future event strategy and operating practices.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of progressively responsible experience planning and delivering professional events, conferences, convenings, or similarly complex projects.
• Demonstrated experience leading significant events involving multiple internal stakeholders and external vendors.
• Strong project management skills, including the ability to manage numerous interconnected workstreams, deadlines, and dependencies.
• Experience developing and managing event budgets and vendor relationships.
• Ability to operate strategically while maintaining command of operational details.
• Excellent judgment and a demonstrated ability to identify risks, resolve ambiguity, and bring decisions forward at the appropriate time.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to work effectively with senior-level stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to lead through influence and create accountability across teams without relying on formal authority.
• Highly organized, proactive, and collaborative; thrives in a small, fast‑moving, mission‑driven organization.
• Experience managing a large annual conference or similarly complex multi‑day event preferred.
• Experience with membership associations, technology companies, nonprofits, or mission‑driven organizations preferred.
• Experience with sponsorship-supported or revenue‑generating events preferred.
• Familiarity with event registration, conference‑management, and attendee‑engagement platforms preferred.