Event Coordinator Position - East Coast

Special thanks to Tracey Cesaretti (Amish) for sending this to us. Tracy is a 2001 graduate of our program.

Event Coordinator – “Drive Against Prostate Cancer”

ZERO - The Project to End Prostate Cancer (ZeroCancer.org), the nation’s leading prostate cancer non-profit, seeks a bright, adaptable, tech-savvy and driven individual with a strong sense of initiative and excellent writing skills for its event coordinator position at its extremely busy office in Old Town – Alexandria, VA.

This individual must excel at managing multiple tasks and execute them quickly and efficiently with great attention to how communication outcomes help accomplish overall organizational goals. This position will coordinate sixty (60) plus events per year on our mobile prostate cancer clinic. Responsibilities include:

• Field all requests for mobile clinic and provide relevant information.
• Generate all contracts related to the mobile clinic.
• Recruit and book local medical personnel, physicians and phlebotomists, to staff the vehicle at about 60 events during the year.
• Coordination of Drive Against Prostate Cancer Drivers & contact with Thor
• Recruit and book community volunteers to assist in event execution, through liaison to local fraternal, veterans and civic organizations.
• Work with local volunteers, merchants, event sponsors and “crowd builders” to maximize participation.
• Manage other event logistics, including venue confirmation, creation and placement of advertising flyers, venue setting and break down, and event analysis and reporting.
• Data entry of all test results and direct mail to patients.
• Follow up phone calls to individuals who visit the vehicle.
• Update Online Event Calendar with new and upcoming Drive events
• Email marketing of all Drive events to our database
• Assist with Dash for Dad – Capital Area event promotion & volunteer recruitment
• Coordinate annual The Summit To End Prostate Cancer
• General administrative support to event director and senior vice president of events.

Preferred candidates will have:
• Demonstrated capacity in event coordination, with at least one year of prior experience.
• Willingness to travel extensively. –up to 40% including weekends.
• Bilingual capacity preferred (English and Spanish).

More information about “The Drive Against Prostate Cancer” can be found at www.zerocancer.org. Please submit a cover letter and resume to Betsy London at hr@zerocancer.org. Please include your salary history and your salary requirements. Please list event coordinator as the subject of your email.