Community Associate

Join Virgin Unite's Constellation team to orchestrate transformative events and trips that inspire social impact. You'll bring together influential business leaders and philanthropists, creating engaging experiences across a wide range of global issues. Your role is crucial in conceptualizing and executing impactful gatherings that spark change and leave a lasting impression.

Our Virgin Family

Join the Virgin Group – a diverse collective driving change, enhancing customer experience, and having a blast. We're daring, disrupting industries from finance to space, united as part of the Virgin Family.

Virgin Unite, Virgin Group's charitable foundation, inspires action. We fuel radical collaboration to challenge the unacceptable. Our overheads, covered by Richard Branson and the Virgin Group, ensure 100% of donations fuel our initiatives.

Our mission: To create a thriving world through entrepreneurial initiatives. Our work revolves around:

• Incubating courageous collectives
• Backing entrepreneurial solutions
• Convening purposeful communities
• Challenging unacceptable issues

Tell me more

• Event Management: Support the execution of  8-12 annual Virgin Unite trips, gatherings, and events aligned with social impact goals.
• Planning and Coordination: Develop project plans, manage logistics, and create necessary materials for events, including briefings and presentations.
• Speaker and Entertainment Management: Establish and maintain relationships with social impact speakers and entertainers, coordinating their involvement in Virgin Unite events.
• Compliance and Tracking: Ensure adherence to Virgin's safeguarding policies and implement a system for tracking event impact in accordance with data protection guidelines.
• Operational Tools Development: Create and maintain event planning tools, including a central event calendar, team event manual, and policy document for all gatherings.
• Team Support and Reporting: Contribute to team communications, board papers, and reports, while managing specific team projects as required.

What you’ll need

• Exceptional Organizational Skills: Adept at managing multiple projects simultaneously, with strong attention to detail and ability to meet deadlines.
• Event Planning Expertise: Experience in designing and producing themed events with structured outcomes, including budget management and working with high-profile individuals.
• Excellent Communication: Strong written and verbal communication skills, coupled with the ability to build and maintain relationships.
• Adaptability and Problem-Solving: Comfortable in a dynamic, fast-paced environment, with a forward-thinking and solution-focused approach.
• Social Sector Background: Experience in non-profit, government, social impact, or philanthropy sectors, with skills in data management and understanding of social issues.

The extra details

Role type: Permanent

Location: New York (approx. 1 day per week) & your home space

Salary: $112,500 - $137,500, depending on experience

Working hours: Full time - We embrace flexible working. Let us know what hours empower you to be at your best both professionally and personally, we’ll try to find a perfect match for you and us.

Benefits: Dive into a fast-paced, evolving workspace, where your hard work and dedication is rewarded. Fancy unlimited holidays and flexible working? That's the Virgin way. We champion inclusion, wellbeing, and purposeful points strategies. Further benefits include health insurance, dental insurance, retirement benefits and an employee rewards scheme.

Closing date: 23 September 2024

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