Stanford University · 3 months ago
Director of Events & Operations
Stanford, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Lead/Staff, Director/Executive
$100K/yr - $125K/yr
5+ years expStanford University is seeking an experienced Director of Events & Operations for its Office for Religious & Spiritual Life. This role involves managing signature events, overseeing operational teams, and ensuring high-quality event production while collaborating with diverse stakeholders across the university.
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Responsibilities
Provide strategic leadership for the development and execution of events through the Office for Religious & Spiritual Life. This includes serving as project manager of multiple events and activities, scoping out project tasks/team assignments and guiding team to create work plans and schedules, monitoring progress, and meeting milestones
Oversee the management of operational and event teams and/or production consultants to produce quality, multi-faceted events and productions. Hire and oversee staff, students, and contingent event staff. Delegate routine and important tasks and decisions while assuming final responsibility for event logistics and departmental operations through effective team management
Scope the length and difficulty of tasks, projects, and events; help the team break down work into process steps. Identify opportunities for synergy and integration
Monitor and respond to requests submitted through email, phone, or the University reservation system and manage a portfolio of events and programs, working with a diverse constituency of staff, faculty, and students to produce logistically precise events
Resolve scheduling conflicts and optimize venue reservations, working closely with ORSL partners
Analyze successes and failures and implement improvements; marshal resources to accomplish goals
Oversee building use policies and protocols for Stanford Memorial Church, including working with student organizations and University offices and departments who wish to reserve space, setting, implementing, and assessing agreements for use, and working collaboratively with University constituents to provide access to Office for Religious & Spiritual Life spaces for University purposes
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree and five years of relevant experience or combination of education and relevant experience
Superior project and event management skills
Demonstrated history in creating innovative event planning strategies and successful event collaborations
Excellent judgment and decisiveness, high integrity, enthusiasm, diplomacy, and tact
Leadership to engage and empower an organized team, fostering a strong, cohesive work environment
Superior verbal and written communication skills
Ability to supervise and manage a diverse team of staff and contingent labor, holding them to deadlines and the highest quality output
Demonstrated experience with financial management of complex event budgets requiring excellent analytical skills
Must possess and maintain a valid California non-commercial Class C Driver's License
Ability to drive day and night
Demonstrates the ability to work well with Stanford colleagues and clients and with external organizations
Demonstrates commitment to personal responsibility and value for safety; communicates safety concerns; uses and promotes safe behaviors based on training and lessons learned
Subject to and expected to comply with all applicable University policies and procedures
Benefits
Career development programs
Tuition reimbursement
Family care resources
Superb retirement plans
Generous time-off
Health care benefits
Free commuter programs
Ridesharing incentives
Discounts and more
Company
Stanford University
Stanford University is a teaching and research university that focuses on graduate programs in law, medicine, education, and business.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$26.52MKey Investors
National Institutes of HealthCalifornia Institute for Regenerative MedicineGRAMMY Museum
2025-09-08Grant
2025-01-30Grant· $5.6M
2023-08-17Grant
Leadership Team
Nadia Roumani
Co-founder and Senior Designer, Designing for Social Systems (DSS) Program, d.school
Howard Wolf
Vice President for Alumni Affairs
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