Associate Specialist Partnerships, Exhibits - Washington, United States - National Association of County and City Health Officials

Description

Be a part of a dynamic team whose work enriches the health of communities by strengthening city and county health departments.

At the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO), we are united by our work to improve our country's 3,300 U.S.

local health departments.

We represent the voice of local public health while striving to live out our core values of equity, excellence, participation, respect, integrity, leadership, science, and innovation.

We provide our employees with meaningful work, opportunities to learn and grow, a strong work/life balance, and a flexible, hybrid work schedule while being a part of a collaborative team.

We are interested in growing our team with passionate, committed, and innovative individuals. The
Associate Specialist Partnerships, Exhibits, Sponsorships will
join NACCHO at a time of dynamic growth. This position is important in the Membership & Meetings department.

***: The Associate Specialist - Partnerships, Sponsorships & Exhibits holds a senior level technical or administrative position that usually requires several years of experience, typically a minimum of three to five, beyond vocational or technical training to perform complex administrative or technical activities. The Associate Specialist - Partnerships, Sponsorships & Exhibits are responsible for office coordination, use of computer software programs, or management of an activity requiring system coordination and extensive interaction with people, including internal employees and people on the outside.

The Associate Specialist - Partnerships, Sponsorships & Exhibits contributes to the advancement of local public health practice by performing a range of responsibilities related to NACCHO's memberships and meetings functions.

This position provides logístical and organizational support to NACCHO's meetings and membership team and reports directly to the Manager, Affiliate Partnerships, Sponsorships, and Exhibits.

The Associate Specialist is directly responsible for coordinating key logistics and managing deliverables as part of partner agreements for NACCHO's Affiliate Business Partner (ABP) program, as well as sponsor and exhibitor agreements for their flagship annual hybrid conferences: the Preparedness Summit and NACCHO360.

The position works collaboratively across the Contracts, Finance, IT, MARCOM and Membership and Meetings teams to ensure the effective fulfillment and tracking of agreements and payment of invoices.

Other key functions for this position include working directly with ABP program members to support member benefit deliverables including webinars, focus groups, advertising placements, programmatic team consults and social media coordination and logistics.

Additional ABP program responsibilities include recruitment and maintenance efforts, renewal communications, invoicing, payment collection, and tracking deliverables with other responsibilities as needed.

This position will also include oversight of processes and procedures to ensure efficient, responsive, and cost-effective management of NACCHO's annual conferences, and small meetings; sponsorships and exhibits; contracting, invoicing and payments.

This position requires initiative, teamwork and solid organization and technical skills.

The work involves partnerships with co-workers, members, vendors, and other external groups, and requires the use of discretion and independent judgment.

The Associate Specialist will collaborate with NACCHO staff and members to centralize, streamline, and improve NACCHO's meetings activities and ensure superior service to partners, sponsors, and exhibitors.

COMPETENCIES AND EXPECTATIONS:

• Ability to establish effective working relationships with diverse groups, including. interacting effectively with coworkers, members, funders, partners, vendors, etc.
• Ability to complete tasks within assigned time frames.
• Ability to work independently as necessary to achieve high performance in position.
• Ability to work effectively within teams.
• Full accountability for all work responsibilities and outcomes, and for input to team(s).
• Good written communication skills.
• Strong analytical skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills.
• Strong organizational skills.
• Detailoriented; high degree of accuracy in all aspects of work.
• Customer service orientation, for both internal and external customers.
• Ability to maintain accurate files.
• Ability to establish effective working relationships with diverse groups, including interacting effectively with coworkers, members, funders, partners, vendors, etc.
• Ability to complete tasks within assigned time frames.
• Ability to work independently as necessary to achieve high performance in position.
• Ability to work effectively within teams with full accountability for all work responsibilities and outcomes, and for input to team(s).
• Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos. Abili