Event and Sponsorship Research Coordinator
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Event sponsorship coordinator researching Canadian events and partnerships for a nonprofit connecting international students with host families. Evaluating opportunities and recommending strategic investments.
Responsibilities:
- Discover and research relevant events, community initiatives and sponsorship opportunities across Canada
- Evaluate opportunities using CHN's established criteria and scoring framework
- Follow CHN's event selection criteria guidelines to determine which events and opportunities to focus on
- Ensure research and recommendations reflect CHN’s national and regional priorities and broader organizational objectives
- Assess audience fit, demographics, alignment with CHN values, geographic relevance, cost, anticipated impact, and potential value
- Communicate with event organizers to gather and verify information, pricing and sponsorship details
- Recommend whether CHN should attend, sponsor, monitor or decline opportunities, with clear rationale for recommendations
- Maintain a national event and sponsorship calendar, opportunity pipeline, and track upcoming decision deadlines
- Identify opportunities for strategic partnerships beyond traditional event participation
- Track decisions, costs, outcomes and available measures of impact, and lessons learned to help CHN continually improve its event and sponsorship investment decisions and inform future planning
- Build and maintain relationships with community organizations, event organizers, and charitable and non-profit partners
- Ensure approved events and sponsorships are secured and planned with sufficient lead time
- Ensure clear communication of expectations, timelines and participation requirements to colleagues responsible for execution
- Other duties as assigned
Requirements:
- Excellent interpersonal and relationship-building skills, including experience engaging with the public through events and community initiatives
- Strong research and analytical skills, including the ability to gather information from multiple sources, assess its reliability and translate findings into clear recommendations
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including coordination and follow-up
- Ability to build effective relationships with multiple stakeholders and cross-functional teams
- Strong organizational and project management skills, with the ability to manage multiple opportunities, deadlines and priorities simultaneously
- Sound judgement, curiosity and problem-solving skills, with the ability to adapt to changing priorities and circumstances, and make recommendations when information is incomplete
- Ability to assess opportunities objectively against established criteria, including audience fit, strategic alignment, cost and anticipated value
- Comfort working with data, tracking results and identifying trends and insights over time
- Working knowledge of office and communication tools, and ability to learn and effectively use CHN systems and tracking tools
- Understanding of marketing, sponsorship, community engagement and/or partnership development is an asset
- Knowledge of Canada’s diverse communities and the ability to consider regional and cultural differences when evaluating opportunities is an asset
- Fluency in English and French is mandatory
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