Executive VP of Events & Audience Experience

Alliance Defending Freedom; Lansdowne (VA); On-site; USD 166,000 - 251,000; Full time

Job summary

Alliance Defending Freedom in Lansdowne, VA, seeks a Vice President of Events to translate strategic priorities into a cohesive event experience. You will lead executive collaboration, align speakers, vendors, and production teams, and own the audience journey from concept to on-site execution.

This role requires at least 12 years in event management, with a track record in live AV production, team leadership, and managing multimillion-dollar budgets.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited university.
• 12+ years of event management experience.
• Experience in overseeing live AV production.
• Demonstrated experience supervising and developing teams.
• Hands-on experience with event technology platforms and Microsoft Office Suite.
• Demonstrated ability and willingness to travel frequently for events, including periodic international travel.

Responsibilities

• Oversee ADF's complete portfolio of events as one strategic investment, defining the event's purpose, priority audience, desired outcomes and measures of success.
• Partner with executive leadership to prioritize events based on mission impact, audience need, investment and organizational capacity, recommending when events should be launched, redesigned, consolidated, scaled or discontinued, and assigning each event an appropriate tier, governance model and level of support.
• Establish the structure, roles, and decision rights of the Events Team, and recruit, develop, and retain top producers and specialists.
• For ADF’s major events, serve as executive producer — the final decision-maker for the audience experience, leading the onsite event structure, and protecting the approved strategy from unnecessary late-stage changes, and making timely decisions when programming, speaker, production, or operational issues arise.
• Own the overall agenda, story arc, session sequence and audience journey, show order, transitions, and pacing.
• Evaluate programming, creative, and production recommendations collectively to ensure the full experience supports the approved event strategy.
• Direct the Creative Director, Event Producer and production partners toward one event vision.
• Serve as the senior liaison between Events, executive leadership, business units, development, communications, legal, security and external partners, ensuring stakeholders contribute expertise without assuming operational or programming authority.
• Establish the ADF event-planning methodology and ensure it is used consistently, including standard processes, tools and timelines for strategy, budgeting, procurement, speaker management, site visits, production and onsite execution.
• Oversee event portfolio budgets, staffing and resource allocation, partnering with the Event Producer/Event Manager to establish the budget and investment priorities.
• Evaluate event investment in relation to mission impact and measurable outcomes, including where increased investment will materially improve mission impact.

Skills

Event management

Live AV production

Team leadership

Event technology platforms

Microsoft Office Suite

Willingness to travel

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Microsoft Office Suite

Registration/AV tools

Job description

Alliance Defending Freedom in Lansdowne, VA, seeks a Vice President of Events to translate strategic priorities into a cohesive event experience. You will lead executive collaboration, align speakers, vendors, and production teams, and own the audience journey from concept to on-site execution.

This role requires at least 12 years in event management, with a track record in live AV production, team leadership, and managing multimillion-dollar budgets.