Events and Community Engagement Manager

Responsibilities

• Event Planning, Management, and Execution
• Admissions Tours and Open Houses
• Event Systems, Documentation, and Improvement
• Budgets, Vendors, Volunteers, and Coordination
• Memoory Book Management
• Communications and Additional Schoolwide Projects

Qualifications and Experience

• Minimum of five years of professional event management experience required.
• Demonstrated experience independently managing events from initial planning through execution and evaluation.
• Experience managing multiple timelines, budgets, vendors, volunteers, stakeholders, and competing priorities.
• Experience supporting fundraising events, auctions, donor events, admissions events, open houses, or community engagement programs preferred.
• Experience in a school, nonprofit, community-based, fundraising, hospitality, or volunteer-supported environment preferred.
• Experience supporting or leading tours, presentations, information sessions, or other public-facing experiences strongly preferred.
• Strong project management, organizational, prioritization, documentation, and follow-through skills.
• Experience managing event budgets and vendor relationships; experience reviewing or negotiating vendor scope and pricing preferred.
• Excellent written, verbal, interpersonal, presentation, and family-facing communication skills.
• Ability to understand and communicate an organization’s mission, culture, program, and value clearly and persuasively.
• Strong storytelling and relationship-building skills.
• Warm, polished, professional, and service-oriented communication style.
• Strong sense of presentation and attention to the guest experience, including materials, signage, displays, hospitality, accessibility, and visual details.
• Ability to anticipate needs, solve problems, exercise sound judgment, and remain calm under pressure.
• Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively across departments.
• Strong technology skills, including Google Workspace, shared calendars, spreadsheets, databases, registration tools, and project management platforms.
• Ability and willingness to learn new event, admissions, fundraising, communications, yearbook, and database systems.
• Ability and willingness to handle confidential information and school purchasing responsibilities with discretion and integrity.
• Ability to work a flexible schedule that may include early mornings, evenings, and weekends.
• Commitment to Trinity School’s mission, Episcopal identity, values, and community culture.