Virgin Unite is the independent non-profit foundation of the Virgin Group – uniting people and entrepreneurial ideas to create opportunities for a better world. We started Virgin Unite with the aim of bringing people together to encourage them never to accept the unacceptable, to turn challenges into opportunities and to always push boundaries that make both business and the world better. Our overheads are covered by Richard Branson and the Virgin Group, meaning that 100% of all donations received go directly to initiatives we create or support. Our goal is to unite people and entrepreneurial ideas to create opportunities for a better world. There are so many challenges facing the world today, but we believe that by bringing the right people together and taking an entrepreneurial approach, we can create positive change.

Our work is divided into four areas:

We know we can’t change the world on our own, so we bring together entrepreneurs, philanthropists and inspirational leaders – then we collaborate for good. We want to form a powerful global community able to drive change.

The role:

This critical role will provide support for the Virgin Unite Community team with a particular focus on event, impact tracking and administrative and logistical support.

Key responsibilities:

Event and Curation Support

Support the Community team and any gathering moderators with the following:

• Event logistics support
• Speaker management including agency relationships
• Create a curation framework and minute by minute plan by gathering.
• Moderator and content support.

Impact Mobilization and Tracking

• Overall responsibility for monitoring and tracking delivery and impact
• Shape events with Community Managers to help inspire and generate as much tangible impact as possible, through both direct and indirect impact, and by setting impact / leverage goals by trip
• Identify and share community impact

Logistical and Administrative Support

• Coordinate the creation of materials and collateral including but not limited to updates to members, event materials, briefings for key stakeholders, internal reports, and external communications
• Help manage internal processes and compliance requirements, contributing to vendor management, due diligence checks, contract research.
• Data upkeep and CRM management.
• Contribute to the Community Team delivering high quality and timely input into board papers and presentations.

For this role we need you to be/have:

• Organizational wizard, good at working with multiple projects simultaneously
• Reliable, deadline driven, and detail-oriented
• Strong desire to help change the world for the better
• Ability to draft clear, concise and inspiring stories, often in collaboration with internal and external stakeholders
• Experience designing and producing themed events and convenings with structured
• Strong senior-level relationship builder
• Comfortable to work in a reactive, busy, changing environment
• Forward thinking approach and solution focused
  
• Experience with event production, communications with social impact at the core is ideal
• Experience with budgets and data management
• Project management experience

Are you ready to join a brand that is passionate about dreaming big and changing business for good?

Some of the attributes that define a Virgin person just can’t be quantified in words. We pride ourselves on welcoming people from all walks of life, with all sorts of skill sets. Most recently, Virgin successfully campaigned to add ‘Dyslexic Thinking’ as a skill on LinkedIn. Any uniqueness is a strength and will be considered an asset to our workforce.

If you're excited about making every day more rewarding and think you have what we're looking for, even if you don’t tick every box on the job description, we'd love to hear from you.

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