Vice President of Live Events

Educational Media Foundation - K-LOVE & Air1•Franklin, TN

About The Position

The Vice President of Live Events facilitates collaboration, inspiration, and direction for Partnership Events. Collaborating with the Chief Media Officer to maximize current partnership opportunities and to develop product lines for sustainable Live Events. This role will create effective Live Events through generating original ideas and key partnerships while ensuring marketing that generates audience awareness. The Vice President of Live Events develops, markets, and executes Live Events with a trusted network of creative partners for K-LOVE. This role is responsible for ensuring live events advance the ministry’s mission by fostering meaningful engagement and delivering lasting spiritual impact. This role is accountable for ensuring live events effectively steward ministry resources while creating opportunities for meaningful spiritual engagement and lasting ministry impact. Knows with whom, how, when, and what to communicate. Communication is flavored with grace, respect, and humility. Listens well and willingly receives and applies feedback. The ability to relate to others in a way that brings out the best in individuals, groups, and the ministry as a whole. This also includes the team members insight into others. For example, listening skills, writing skills, and interpersonal skills. For team leaders, the leader has demonstrated the ability to hire and develop people on their team. The ability to think and plan strategically and translate that thinking into sustained results. Other areas include team members ability to do their job and understand all aspects of their role, their capacity to take charge when it makes sense and to solve problems and resolve issues. For team leaders, this includes ability to formulate and present goals, manage to their budget, see beyond the short term, and envision the longer-term big picture. The ability to maintain capacity and openness to God's leading by staying physically, emotionally, and spiritually healthy. Emotional examples of this could include team members flexibility, consistency, adaptability, personal discipline, and ability to manage stress. Sees with a future focus beyond daily operations to establish and articulate vision and develop creative solutions. Obtains information and identifies key issues and relationships relevant to achieving a long-range goal or vision; commits to a course of action to accomplish a long-range goal or vision after developing alternatives based on logical assumptions, facts, available resources, constraints, and organizational values.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree preferred, or combination of education/training with relevant experience.
Minimum 5 years’ experience in staff Management/Leadership. Is a skilled and gifted leader and manager of people, resources, and processes.
Minimum 5 years’ experience in a role requiring building and maintaining positive partnerships within the industry.
Deep working knowledge in one or more of the core areas listed below and knowledgeable in media promotions related disciplines including: Scheduling, Strategic Planning, Copywriting, Contact Management
Must be computer literate, including proficiency in Microsoft office products. Knowledge of CMS systems preferred.
Must have demonstrated high attention to detail.
A collaborative and flexible style, with strong service mentality. Need to be seen as a team player.
Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to develop sincere business/ministry relationships.
Strong written and verbal communication and presentation skills.
Demonstrated commitment to the social sector with a passion for our mission and values.
Must pass a pre-employment reference and background scree
Proof of legal authorization to work in the United States required upon hire.
Must agree with and support K-LOVE Christ-Centered Life Covenant and Statement of Faith.

Responsibilities

Proactively influence our culture, leading by example in demonstrating collaboration, empowerment, innovation, creativity and service, while being a faithful witness on and off the job of K-LOVE’s mission to create compelling media that inspires and encourages our listeners to have a meaningful relationship with Christ.
As a member of leadership, contribute to long term planning and vision implementation through identification of strategic Ministry Partnership initiatives, collaboration, prioritization, communication, and evaluation of results, while preserving K-LOVE’s reputation for integrity and excellence.
Collaborate closely with other departments such as CEO, Programming, Development, Underwriting, Marketing, and other departments.
Ensure alignment of Live Event and Sponsorship Initiatives with Ministry objectives.
Network and build ongoing relationships with agents, artist management, promoters, and other industry leaders.
Respond to all unsolicited requests for potential live event partnerships from agents and artist management.
Respond to all in-house Development team requests for potential live Donor events in need of an Artist. Procure Artist, manage details of Artist & event and work directly with Development team.
Plan, develop, and implement K-LOVE live event branding initiatives.
Maintain a 2-3-year calendar of K-LOVE live events and sponsorships.
Travel, as needed, to cover strategic live events and seek new opportunities.
Explore and develop opportunities and relationships with potential outside partners that will strategically grow live event exposure in corresponding television and live stream properties.
Partner with Development team to create high impact donor events at existing upcoming events including Market and Audience analysis to create unique experiences for our donor audience.
Create 2-3-year annual revenue goals for the division with corresponding strategies to maximize revenue opportunities.
Partner with Marketing, to recommend appropriate radio, digital, and social run of schedules to meet the needs of the event.
Assist with presenting effective copy for radio, digital, and social schedules effectively maintaining our Brand, while promoting the event.
Maintain fiscal responsibility including presentation of budgets to Chief Media Officer ahead of all tours and events. Provide follow through maintaining budgets to final settlements.
Demonstrate initiative with proactive follow-up and servicing ongoing relationships; help drive decisions by providing timely response to questions, concerns, and requests for information.
Collaborate with the Chief Media Officer in customizing marketing materials, collateral, presentations; budget and strategic market planning and goals; and present plans to maximize inventory utilization and revenue generation.
Represent K-LOVE and Air 1 professionally and with ministry-focused communications.
Provide strategic leadership, mentoring and developing a highly competent and responsive team, ensuring alignment of goals and ministry initiatives with K-LOVE’s mission. Foster a learning environment where training, risk management, operational best practices, and biblical values go hand in hand with creative and entrepreneurial solution that best fulfill the ministry’s mission.
Utilize the K-LOVE Leadership Framework in setting professional goals for self and direct reports. Actively seek and partake in training & education to deepen Biblical understanding, media/business acumen, leadership knowledge, interpersonal awareness, and communication skills.
Demonstrate the qualities of a life-time learner in the disciplines relevant to effectively lead and perform job duties by taking personal responsibility for professional development and training.
Actively participate and contribute to Ministry-wide initiatives and projects like Gratitude Fest, Daily Prayer, All Team Meetings, All Team Celebrations as announced. These initiatives, and others, are key components of the Ministry, our culture and more fun to do together!
Support and contribute to ministry endeavors by following employment policies and practices and supporting a safe and healthy work environment. Specifically, follow K-LOVE’s Injury Prevention and Safety program, support and maintain safety standards, and participate in safety training.
Perform other duties as assigned.
Job responsibilities are subject to review and change.