What are the responsibilities and job description for the Marketing and Events Coordinator - Connecticut Region position at Alliance Highway Safety?
Alliance Highway Safety is seeking flexible, outgoing, and organized individuals to help coordinate a variety of sponsorship events across the Connecticut Region.
The Connecticut Region encompasses Connecticut, New York, and New Jersey. As a Marketing and Events Coordinator, you’ll have the opportunity to learn from our experienced staff about the ins and outs of event marketing and corporate sponsorships, assist in managing sponsorship campaigns, and hear directly from established professionals in highway safety. Coordinators travel to and staff events such as festivals, high school and college sports, rodeos, fairs, and the Choices Matter Program.
The Connecticut Region encompasses Connecticut, New York, and New Jersey. As a Marketing and Events Coordinator, you’ll have the opportunity to learn from our experienced staff about the ins and outs of event marketing and corporate sponsorships, assist in managing sponsorship campaigns, and hear directly from established professionals in highway safety. Coordinators travel to and staff events such as festivals, high school and college sports, rodeos, fairs, and the Choices Matter Program.
Alliance Highway Safety specializes in impactful community messaging, with a primary focus on highway safety programs directly with various states and carries out targeted messaging about drinking and driving, texting and driving, wearing seatbelts, speeding, and other campaigns using sports, entertainment, and high school venues as our platform.
We desire outgoing, flexible, and responsible individuals to share campaign messages at events to help continue making an impact in these communities and saving lives. If you enjoy traveling, making a difference in your community, and engaging with attendees and fans across the country, then please send in a COVER LETTER and RESUME today.
Responsibilities:
- Staffing and fulfilling events as scheduled (weekdays, weekends, and some holidays)
- Planning, booking, and coordinating travel arrangements
- Contacting and working with venue coordinators
- Researching marketing tools and collecting program data
- Traveling to events and marketing highway safety campaigns effectively
- Reporting and communicating to managers for maximizing the impact of highway safety programs
- Preparing professional recaps of each event for the client
- Capturing photographs of marketing activations and engagement at events
- Ensuring that each venue is meeting sponsorship requirements (signs, PA announcements, video commercials, print ads, etc.)
- Inventory management of the office and off-site storage
- Engage in “team-think” and brainstorming to increase the effectiveness of sponsorship activations
- Creation of projects using Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, and Canva (optional)
- Other tasks as assigned
Qualifications/Requirements:
- Must be able to travel (75% of the time, primarily within the Connecticut Region)
- Well-organized
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Knowledge of Microsoft Office: Word, Excel, PowerPoint (Preferred: Teams Application & HubSpot)
- Ability to multitask and time manage
- Ability to stay flexible and adaptable
- Self-starter with a positive attitude
- Have strong interpersonal skills that complement a proactive, solution-driven, team-oriented work ethic
- Ability to work untraditional hours, including weekends, evenings, and some holidays
- Be able to lift a minimum of 50 lbs. as needed
Education/Experience:
- Previous experience in event marketing or community relations preferred
- Junior/Senior working toward a bachelor’s or graduate degree
We are an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, disability, gender identity, marital or veteran status, or any other protected class.