Association Associate Executive Director - Mid Level Position
Miller Wenhold Association Management
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Posted: 14-Oct-24
Location: Fairfax, Virginia
Type: Full Time
Salary: 75,000 plus benefits
Categories:
Marketing
Meetings/Expositions/Events
Membership
Salary Details:
Paid healthcare, including vision and dental
401k match program
Paid Vacation
Internal Number: MWAMAED1
Association Associate Executive Director Position – Mid Level
Miller Wenhold Association Management – www.mwassociation.com – is an association management firm located in Fairfax, Virginia. Our clients are trade associations and non-profits.
MWAM seeks a mid level Client Account Executive to serve as the organization’s Associate Executive Director.
The AED will be responsible for helping in developing and carrying out all marketing, communications, and membership recruitment duties for our clients. The primary responsibility is to create and execute lead generation for the associations managed by MWAM. Candidate must be able to communicate through multiple forms of media, including oral and written communication. Candidate must be able to meet multiple deadlines.
MWAM offers a pleasant work-life balance office in the Fairfax City, Virginia. This is a full-time position. The position requires a well-organized, motivated, self-starter who works with little oversight or supervision, is dependable and has a cheerful personality, is well organized and pays attention to detail. This is not a virtual position. Person must be willing to work in the Fairfax office location.
The successful candidate will:
- Assist handling day-to-day operations of the association; - Responsible for working with the appropriate committees to organize, implement, and oversee annual meeting of 300-500 people each year; - Responsible for updating membership data, run membership reports, and manage member profiles; - Responsible to organizing and running all executive, board, and committee calls and in-person meetings; - Assist in developing and implementing membership recruitment and corporate partner programs; - Monitor trends in the client fields (industries, professions) and formulate branding and messaging strategy considering; competitive analyses, market needs and new market opportunities; - Assist in managing and preparing all public relations and social media content. Expand and build social media awareness and followers through profession trade media and other means; - Assist in creating client monthly newsletters; - Assist in updating client website; - Assist in managing relationships with clients; and - Assist in creating and preparing creative marketing materials and web content that supports marketing efforts.
Qualifications:
- 3-5 year’s experience in association management, public relations, marketing or communications. - Excellent communications skills – both oral and written. - Ability to manage internal/external expectations and meet deadlines. - Working knowledge of social media platforms (Constant Contact, Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn). - Excellent working knowledge of Your Membership. - Excellent working knowledge of MS Office (Publisher, Excel, Word). - Excellent working knowledge of Wix web platform. - Excellent working knowledge of Canva. - Knowledge of Apricot and Your Membership platforms. - Basic knowledge of IT to serve as liaison to outside IT, web host and related support firms.
- B.A. or B.S. Meeting Planning, Association Management, Marketing or Communications or a related field, or with commensurate experience. - Provide writing and marketing samples.
At Miller Wenhold Association Management we believe that the most important quality a firm can offer a client is trust. This trust is built on results, a principle our firm was founded on.