Vice President of Events

Adflegal; Lansdowne (VA); On-site; USD 166,000 - 251,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) with company match

Paid time off & holidays

Medical and dental insurance

Job summary

Alliance Defending Freedom in Lansdowne, VA seeks a Vice President of Events to translate organizational priorities into an audience‑centered strategy. You will be the executive producer, aligning leadership, experts, producers, speakers and vendors around a single, cohesive experience.

You will provide strategic oversight of ADF's event portfolio, lead the Events Team, and make final decisions on audience engagement, production, and programming for flagship events. Travel is required.

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.
• Willingness to travel frequently, including periodic international travel.

Responsibilities

• Oversee ADF's complete portfolio of events as one strategic investment, defining purpose and outcomes.
• Partner with executive leadership to prioritize events based on mission impact and capacity.
• Establish structure, roles, and decision rights for the Events Team and recruit top producers.
• Serve as executive producer for major events, ensuring audience experience alignment and timely decisions.
• Own the overall agenda, story arc, session sequence, and audience journey.
• Direct the Creative Director, Event Producer and production partners toward one vision.

Skills

Event management

Team supervision

Travel readiness

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

AV production

Microsoft Office

Registration systems

Job description

Make a difference with us! At Alliance Defending Freedom, we believe God has brought you here for His purpose—to stand for truth and defend the God-given right to live and speak it. Together, we protect religious freedom, free speech, the sanctity of life, marriage and family, and parental rights. Review our Statement of Faith to ensure we’re a fit for you.

Location: Lansdowne, VA

Team Overview

The Vice President of Events will translate ADF's organizational priorities into an audience-centered event strategy and ensure that every element of the event works together to produce the intended mission outcome. This role serves as the event's primary owner and final integrator—aligning executive leadership, Subject Matter Experts, event producers, creative partners, speakers, and vendors around one cohesive experience. The VP of Events will provide strategic oversight of ADF's entire event portfolio and hands‑on executive‑producer accountability for ADF's flagship events, serving as the final decision‑maker for the audience experience.

Key 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.

Programming, Creative, and Production Leadership

• 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.

Subject Matter Expert Integration

• 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.

Event Standards and Systems

• 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.

Minimum 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, with a track record of building and retaining high‑performing staff.
• Hands‑on experience with event technology platforms (e.g., registration, AV/production, or analytics tools) and Microsoft Office Suite.
• Demonstrated ability and willingness to travel frequently for events, including periodic international travel.

Preferred Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience in executive‑level decision‑making authority, with specific examples of high‑stakes judgment calls made under time pressure.
• Experience owning event strategy and audience‑experience design for large‑scale events (500+ attendees), from concept through execution.
• Experience programming keynote‑level content, story arcs, or show flow for a senior/executive audience.
• Experience owning a departmental or event‑portfolio budget of $1M+, including forecasting and vendor negotiation.
• Direct experience directing creative and production teams toward a unified vision.

At Alliance Defending Freedom, we offer competitive compensation and a comprehensive benefits package to support your well‑being and growth. Our benefits include 100% covered medical and dental insurance, medical and dependent care reimbursement, paid disability, long‑term care, life insurance, and a 401(k) plan with a 4% company match. We prioritize work‑life balance with paid time off and 12 paid holidays each year.

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This salary range is reflective of a position based in Lansdowne, VA. This range is a good‑faith estimate, and the actual salary may vary based on the candidate’s experience, skills, qualifications, and office location.

Virginia Salary Range

$166,300 - $250,800 USD

Statement of Faith

I believe in God, the Father almighty, creator of heaven and earth. I believe in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried; On the third day he rose again; he ascended into heaven, he is seated at the right hand of the Father, and he will come to judge the living and the dead. I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy catholic Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting. Amen.

Doctrinal Distinctives

• We believe in the spiritual unity and equality of believers in our Lord Jesus Christ.
• We believe that the Lordship of Christ requires us as disciples to seek to conform our actions, thoughts, and desires in obedience to Him.
• We believe God creates each person with an immutable biological sex — male or female — that reflects the image and likeness of God.
• We believe God designed marriage as a unique conjugal relationship joining one man and one woman in a single, exclusive, life‑long union, and God intends sexual intimacy only to occur within that relationship.
• We believe God endows all human life with inherent dignity, and it must be respected and protected from conception to natural death.
• We believe that God has endowed all humans with the natural, and inalienable right of religious freedom to believe, pursue truth, and live within ordered liberty such that no civil government may justly infringe upon it.
• We believe that God, through His Son, Jesus Christ, calls all of us to deny ourselves, take up our cross, and follow Him, knowing that He promises us abundant and eternal life.