Sr Conference Management Specialist- OSEC

Federal Reserve Board; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 111,000 - 166,000; Full time

Job summary

The Federal Reserve Board in Washington, DC seeks an experienced events professional to provide full event-planning services for Board events, from small ceremonies to high-profile conferences, including international gatherings.

The role involves coordinating logistics, vendor management, and security compliance, supporting FAC and CDIAC meetings, and maintaining the events calendar and related paperwork. Strong organizational and interpersonal skills are essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• Minimum of 4 years of relevant experience.

Responsibilities

• Plans and coordinates all Board events, from small conferences to international conferences.
• Oversees logistics, venue, menus, transportation, and vendor services.
• Supports FAC and CDIAC meetings with logistics and processing security information.
• Manages section scheduling and events calendar on SharePoint Online.
• Acts in senior capacity for Conference Management Specialists.

Skills

Event planning

Customer relations

Communication skills

Team collaboration

Independent work

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Minimum Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Minimum Experience

4

Summary

Provides full event-planning services for Board events, ranging from small conferences and ceremonial events to larger, high-profile, and complex events – including internationally-focused conferences. Utilizes planning experience to provide and oversee consulting services to Board event planners. Serves as back-up for the section’s leadership in their duties, including supporting the Secretary of the Board with two of the Board’s advisory councils, the Federal Advisory Council (FAC) and the Community Depository Institutions Advisory Council (CDIAC). Performs scheduling and administrative duties for the section. Position requires advanced organizational and interpersonal skills, thorough and accurate attention to details, tact, diplomacy, and technical proficiency.

Duties And Responsibilities

• Provides full event-planning services for all Board events, ranging from small conferences and ceremonial events to larger, high-profile, and complex events, such as international conferences. As an experienced event planner, duties include managing frequent consultations with officials and event planners in the sponsoring division, selecting an appropriate location, planning menus and arranging for food service, planning facility set-up, reserving hotel rooms and providing transportation, obtaining services from outside vendors, coordinating invitations, preparing paperwork and obtaining required approvals from Board management, ensuring compliance with security protocols for events at the Board, overseeing pre-event preparations, resolving last-minute problems, attending functions to ensure smooth implementation, and providing a post-event evaluation to improve future events. While escalating issues appropriately to section leadership, most duties will be performed with minimal supervision. May provide recommendations to senior Board leadership and interact with officials or executives outside of the Board.
• Provides direction for and oversees the section’s Conference Express option (consulting services for Board event planners). Conference Express services include consulting on all aspects of conference planning and management, advising in the selection of facilities, assistance in making reservations for hotel accommodations and transportation, and providing advice for all aspects of the Conference Planning Kit (a tool for event planners that includes checklist, sample menus, suggested meeting room configurations, and sample approval forms).
• Supports section leadership and the Secretary of the Board in relation to FAC and CDIAC meetings. Duties include coordinating all logistical aspects of the meetings (reserving and preparing the Board Room, collecting and processing security information, scheduling ground transportation and hotel accommodations, and overseeing the preparation and distribution of the councils’ questions and answers) and resolving last-minute problems. Researches, analyzes, and compiles information about each council and coordinates CDIAC’s nomination process with the Secretary of the Board, as needed. Also supports the section’s public tour program as needed.
• Proactively supports and helps to drive the section’s technology-focused initiatives and activities. Duties include assessing business processes to identify potential efficiencies and modernizations, effectively communicating stakeholder needs for system development and enhancements with technical partners and division leadership, testing internal applications as a business stakeholder, and proficiently utilizing event planning-related systems and platforms to support duties. These systems may include internal and external applications for event planning logistics, diagraming event schematics, and virtual event conferencing.
• Oversees and performs scheduling and administrative duties for the section. Duties include maintaining and updating the events calendar on the Office of the Secretary’s SharePoint Online site; overseeing the section’s systems that track all scheduled events and conferences; maintaining and updating the directory of Board staff members who serve as speakers for domestic and international group functions; and reviewing and allocating monthly credit card charges to sponsoring divisions.
• Acts in a senior capacity with the Conference Management Specialists (Grades 23 and 24) when performing principal duties and responsibilities.

FR-25: Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience and a minimum of 4 years of relevant experience

FR-26: Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience and a minimum of 5 years of relevant experience

Required Skills/Experience

• Demonstrated experience event planning
• Excellent customer relations skills and the ability to deal effectively with all levels of staff with a great deal of tact and diplomacy
• Excellent oral and written communications skills
• Experience with Microsoft Office products (Excel, SharePoint, Word, PowerPoint)
• Ability to multi-task and coordinate work and scheduling requirements, often under tight work constraints- remaining flexible and agile during ambiguous scenarios
• Must be comfortable working both independently and collaborating within a team environment

Notes

• This position will require an on-site presence in Washington, DC.
• This position may require occasional early morning/evening hours

Job Type

Regular

Job Exempt

Yes

Relocation Provided

No

Compensation Grade(s)

FR PAY GRADE 25 - FR PAY GRADE 26

Pay

$111,400-$166,400

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