About American Climbing
Based in 1976 and serving as the one nationwide voice of the mountain climbing neighborhood, American Climbing lives out its mission, Empowering all to get pleasure from, share, and protect the mountain climbing expertise, by way of grassroots and grasstops advocacy and path stewardship. We envision a world the place everybody feels welcome within the American mountain climbing neighborhood and has everlasting entry to significant mountain climbing, together with city, frontcountry, and backcountry alternatives. We are going to obtain this imaginative and prescient by empowering all communities to get pleasure from, share, and protect the mountain climbing expertise; advocating for the safety and enlargement of mountain climbing areas; fostering path stewardship; and collaborating with companions whose strengths are complementary. We offer an thrilling, artistic, {and professional} but relaxed ambiance with a powerful out of doors and conservation ethic. AHS is dedicated to justice, fairness, variety, and inclusion in all we do, internally and externally; and we’re a collaborative, de-siloed workforce that values harnessing one another’s strengths and honoring work-life steadiness.
Place Title: Nationwide Trails Day Coordinator
Place Kind: Half-Time (Non-Exempt, Salaried); 28 hours per week January – June, then 20 hours from July – December
Location: Distant. This place is open to candidates in CO, DC, IN, MD, NY, UT, VA, and WY with an understanding that almost all of labor falls between the hours of 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. EST.Stories To: Senior Director for Applications and AdvocacyPlace AbstractThe Nationwide Trails Day Coordinator is liable for planning, implementing, and optimizing the communications technique and occasion administration technique for American Climbing Society’s signature annual occasion, Nationwide Trails Day® (NTD), which happens the primary Saturday of each June. Between January and June, because the Nationwide Trails Day Coordinator, you’ll be liable for establishing and finishing up AHS’s model voice by way of NTD print and digital mediums and occasion recruitment, registration, and administration for NTD occasion development. This isn’t an on the bottom occasion planner place. NTD occasions are deliberate and executed by associate hosts however promoted and supported by AHS because the nationwide coordinating group of NTD.
From July by way of December, this function supplies coordinated help to AHS program initiatives by supporting volunteer recruitment and engagement. This can embody drafting communications and graphics for volunteer recruitment and venture recaps. This place will even help volunteer coordination and communication efforts by responding to volunteer emails, calls/texts, and different correspondence, finishing venture confirmations and different registration help, and monitoring volunteer influence information. Main Duties and Tasks (January-June)
Occasion Coordination & Planning
Coordinate annual planning and execution of Nationwide Trails Day® inside a longtime framework and timeline
Oversee key deadlines, calendars, and deliverables associated to the nationwide marketing campaign
Function the inner level individual to maintain the marketing campaign on observe throughout departments
Help steady enchancment by documenting processes and classes realized
Host & Companion Help
Recruit and help native occasion hosts nationwide (land managers, nonprofits, path organizations, golf equipment, municipalities, and so on.)
Function the first contact for host questions and technical help
Replace and distribute communications and sources together with host toolkits, graphics, pointers, and timelines
Guarantee hosts perceive branding, messaging, and reporting expectations
Communications & Advertising Coordination
Draft and coordinate with AHS employees on Nationwide Trails Day® messaging and promotional efforts
Draft electronic mail, web site, and social media (with social media contractor) campaigns, together with managing timelines and content material inputs
Acquire photographs, tales, and influence highlights from occasion hosts for storytelling and reporting
Guarantee constant use of Nationwide Trails Day® branding and messaging
Sponsorship & Growth Help
Coordinate with growth employees to fulfill sponsor engagement and recognition deliverables
Guarantee sponsor advantages and acknowledgments are executed precisely
Help with monitoring and reporting any fundraising tied to Nationwide Trails Day®
Knowledge Administration & Reporting
Oversee occasion registration techniques and host occasion submissions
Monitor participation metrics (occasions, volunteers, miles maintained, influence information)
Compile post-event summaries and studies for inner use, companions and sponsors, and board updates
Keep organized digital data and templates for future years
Put up-Occasion Comply with-Up
Coordinate thank-you communications to hosts, companions, sponsors, and contributors
Administer post-event surveys and acquire suggestions
Archive supplies and replace instruments for the following marketing campaign cycle
Program and Volunteer Help (July – December)
Help the Applications workforce with coordination of further AHS packages
Draft exterior communications and graphics for volunteer recruitment and venture recaps
Help volunteer coordination and communication efforts by way of volunteer electronic mail, telephone, and different correspondence, venture confirmations, registration help, and influence monitoring
Abilities and Expertise
A real perception within the AHS mission of empowering all to get pleasure from, share, and protect the mountain climbing expertise
3+ years of expertise in Occasion Administration, Communications, Advertising, or associated area most popular
Confirmed expertise advertising and marketing a nationwide occasion
Expertise within the non-profit sector most popular
Images and video creation and enhancing expertise most popular
Glorious verbal and written communication abilities a should with the power to write down a message clearly and concisely that resonates with totally different audiences
Distinctive organizational and venture administration abilities
Thorough understanding of efficient communications and advertising and marketing methods
Inspiring storyteller with a knack for creativity
Proficient in Microsoft Workplace Suite, Google Drive, Dropbox, Asana, WordPress, Canva, and electronic mail advertising and marketing techniques
Perceive ideas of graphic design, structure, and publishing
Expertise with buyer relationship administration (CRM) software program or capacity to be taught software program shortly
Means to handle a number of priorities independently in a part-time capability and in addition cohesively as a part of a distant workforce with a development and answer pushed mindset
Wage and Advantages
The annual beginning wage for this place is $28,674 – $30,665 and is non-negotiable and calculated inside that vary in accordance with expertise. This function has a variable pay construction aligned with seasonal hours – 28 hours per week from January by way of June and 20 hours per week from July by way of December.
Beneficiant time without work to incorporate 3 weeks accrued trip your first 12 months, sick time, paid holidays
Extra time without work to incorporate hike days, volunteer days, and luxuriate in your birthday off!
Reductions on out of doors gear
Robust tradition of work-life steadiness and valuing psychological and bodily well being of staff
To ApplyPlease ship a canopy letter, resume, and the way you heard about this place to jobs@americanhiking.org with “Nationwide Trails Day Coordinator” and your first and final title within the topic line. Resumes will probably be accepted till January 30 or till stuffed.
American Climbing Society is an equal alternative employer and supplies an equal employment alternative for all staff and candidates with out regard to their precise or perceived race, shade, faith, intercourse, age, incapacity, nationwide origin, ancestry, sexual orientation, marital standing, private look, citizenship standing, household duties, gender id or expression, genetic data, matriculation, political affiliation, veteran standing, or some other prohibited foundation of discrimination as required by legislation.
