Marketing Events Specialist

Position Summary

/ Career Interest:This position is responsible for planning and executing numerous employee engagement events throughout the year for several thousand leaders, staff and physicians including health system week, leadership dinner, US News celebration and holiday party.

Responsibilities and Essential Job Functions

• Plan and execute corporate, community, medical staff, fund development, employee, and executive events and projects in support of strategic health system objectives and initiatives using customized content to bolster relationships and ensuring KPIs and budgetary goals are met.
• Build reputation and patient volumes supporting the vision and needs of the health system.
• Facilitate relationships and work with numerous stakeholders including C-suite, executives, medical staff, service line managers, university executives and staff, fund development, government relations and marketing colleagues to execute to ongoing outreach, partnerships and employee engagement events.
• Plan and execute numerous employee engagement events throughout the year for several thousand leaders, staff and physicians including health system week, leadership dinner, US News celebration and holiday party.
• Strengthen and build our relationship with key community organizations around ongoing sponsorship and community outreach support. Evaluate annually sponsorship opportunities.
• Maximize events and sponsorships identifying speaking, branding and experience opportunities.
• Manage branded booth and exhibit materials, collateral, and promotional items.
• Create activation experiences for community events i.e., KC Royals Health Awareness Days.
• Oversee health system sponsored walks that includes event activation, t-shirt design and production, and employee participation.
• Hire, manage and maintain vendor relationships to ensure logistical success including parking, valet, catering, audio visual, venue, rentals, cleaning, security and staffing.
• Support additional community outreach in coordination with internal partners by others within the health system, cancer center, and fund development.
• Facilitate events associated with health system partners i.e., Chiefs, Royals, T-Mobile and KU Athletics.
• Support internal stakeholders with relevant content including design and content to create attendee experiences that meet brand standards.
• Coordinate player, celebrity tours and visits, maximizing exposure on social media and through local news.
• Source, order and manage employee gifts acting as the single point of contact.
• Must be able to perform the professional, clinical and or technical competencies of the assigned unit or department.
• These statements are intended to describe the essential functions of the job and are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities. Skills and duties may vary dependent upon your department or unit. Other duties may be assigned as required.

Required Education and Experience

• Bachelors Degree in Marketing, Communications, or a related field of study from an accredited college or university.
• 5 or more years of Corporate Events Management experience.
• 3 or more years of managing large scale events.

Preferred Education and Experience

• Master's Degree of Business Administration or a related field of study from an accredited college or university.
• 8 or more years of Corporate Events Management experience.

Time Type:

Full time

Job Requisition ID:

R-45789

Important information for you to know as you apply:

• The health system is an equal employment opportunity employer. Qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), national origin, ancestry, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other legally-protected status.

• The health system provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities. If you need to request reasonable accommodations for your disability as you navigate the recruitment process, please let our recruiters know by requesting an Accommodation Request form using this link .

• Employment with the health system is contingent upon, among other things, agreeing to the and signing the agreement to the DRP.