Global Events Specialist

D2L is a cloud company that is modernizing education and building the Future of Work. The old models of teaching and learning are in the midst of the largest transformation in history, and D2L is at the heart of that fundamental shift.

New models of teaching and learning enable a personalized, student-centric experience - and deliver improved retention, engagement, satisfaction, and results for learners of all ages - in schools, campuses, and companies.

D2L is disrupting the way the world learns, by providing the next generation learning environment and solutions to engage and inspire learners. And most importantly, by giving customers a platform that is easy, flexible, and smart. No other company provides a solution as robust and innovative as D2L.

D2L has had a singular mission for 20 years and is dedicated to that same mission in the years ahead: to transform the way the world learns - and by doing so, we will help improve human potential globally.

**Job Summary**:
The mission of the **Global Event Specialist** is to create, plan, and execute phenomenal event experiences that engage our clients and prospective clients, and meet our marketing and broader business objectives.

As a key member of the Global Events Team (GET) within the Marketing organization at D2L, you will be responsible for the planning and tactical execution of various D2L Proprietary and 3rd Party Sponsored events. You will create and manage memorable event experiences that generate leads, build on our brand awareness and momentum, and showcase our company, customers, products, services and staff.

**How you will make an impact**:

- Manage event experiences from concept through completion - planning and preparations, coordination of on-site logistics and production as well as post-event follow-up - ensuring high-level service throughout.
- Provide direction and coordinate with various departments across the organization, external clients, vendors, and others to establish needs for events throughout all the phases.
- Cross-functional coordination of tasks and the development of materials, content, assets, toolkits, creative, messaging, and event technical, production, and logístical elements.
- Liaise and prepare speakers, sponsors, vendors, and enable event staff.
- Prepare and manage scope, timelines, actions, tasks, risk mitigation plans, dependencies, budget, and purchase requests.
- Serve as a liaison to key stakeholders and clearly communicate and report on event goals and results.
- Troubleshoot and handle issues that arise in planning leading up to as well as day-of the event.
- Assist in enabling internal and external messengers to amplify messaging, drive event registrations, engagement, feedback, and follow-up through various channels.
- Maintain event calendar and communicate event activities and results across the organization.
- Nurture and build relationships with internal teams, external vendors, venues, and other industry contacts.
- Stay current and ahead of the curve on the key industry events to sponsor and event planning, outreach, design and experience trends, with an eye towards continuous improvement, and sharing insights and learnings across the team.
- Manage the daily details with big-picture strategic thinking to ensure truly unique and immersive event experiences.

**What you’ll bring to the role and what we expect**:

- 3-5 years of work experience in an event, marketing, or project management role.
- Proven experience and success coordinating events and owning end-to-end planning and execution of in-person and virtual events.
- Ability to think quickly under pressure, solve difficult problems, and make split-second decisions.
- Advanced collaboration, communication, and interpersonal skills.
- Capable of managing multiple priorities in parallel and meeting hard deadlines.
- Strong ability to coordinate not only your own tasks but also coordinate and drive cross-functional alignment and task accountability with others.
- Strong organization skills, including multi-tasking and time management.
- A self-motivated and outgoing individual with the ability to work independently and with a team.
- Great leadership qualities with the ability to delegate and clearly communicate responsibility to others to meet expectations.
- Meticulous attention to detail as there will be an element of administration duties, data entry, and contract, venue and technical reviews.
- Advanced MS Excel User skills are an asset.
- Proficiency with Eventmobi, Swoogo, Pheedloop, or similar Event platform and/or Salesforce or similar CRM technologies preferred.
- Experience in building enriching working relationships and managing external vendor relationships.
- Creative mindset and stamina to try new things and figure out how to continuously improve.
- Communication writing and/or copywriting experience is preferred.
- Knowledge of marketing demand generation funnel is an asset, but not required.
- Flexibility to work even at irr