Events Manager

Teatown Lake Reservation is seeking a highly organized, flexible, detail-oriented, motivated, and enthusiastic individual to manage external and internal events at Teatown.

Schedule: This position is full-time (35 hours per week), with a flexible schedule including a mix of remote and on-site work, including some evenings and weekends.

Supervisor: Assistant Director of External Relations Position Duties:

• Take the lead on project management, by overseeing planning timelines, budgets, and executing tasks for a wide range of Teatown events, including the annual Gala, EagleFest, PlantFest, and Pancake Brunch.
• Manage sourcing and management of vendors needed for events. • With direction, execute vendor contracts, track receipt of rental revenue, and maintain a recommended-vendor list for third-party rentals.
• Take an active role in cultivation and coordination of outside third-party rentals of Teatown’s facilities, including weddings, community events and meetings, and children’s birthday parties.
• Draft and distribute agendas for event committee meetings.
• Foster and maintain relationships with Teatown donors and constituents via in-person, phone-based, and email communications.
• Familiarity with the Westchester County cultural and environmental landscape, and parks system.
• Ability to attend evening and weekend events.

Position Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree with a minimum of 5 to 10 years of public and private event management. Not-for-profit experience preferred.
• Valid driver’s license and a clean driving record
• Strong interpersonal and problem-solving skills; excellent verbal and written communications skills
• Highly proficient with technology, including experience with Microsoft Office Suite, Google Docs, and calendaring software
• Great customer service skills, ability to manage multiple tasks and projectsconcurrently
• Must be able to work independently and also work successfully as part of acollaborative team and with volunteer committees
• High degree of integrity, discretion, and punctuality for all events
• Interest in Teatown’s mission, environmental issues, conservation, and greenliving a plus

Job Type: Professional, full-time Salary range: $55,000 – $60,000 / year plus generous benefits package: Medical, Dental, Vision, Disability, 403(b) retirement plan with employer match; paid time off, including annual leave, sick leave, personal days, and federal and floating holidays.

Instructions: To apply, please send your résumé and cover letter to Austin Schatz, Assistant Director of External Relations at aschatz@teatown.org. No phone calls, please.

About Teatown: Teatown is a nonprofit nature preserve and environmental education center located in Westchester County, in New York’s Lower Hudson Valley. Our mission is “to inspire our community to lifelong environmental stewardship.” Our programs reach more than 20,000 students and community members annually. With more than 1,000 acres under conservation, Teatown is the largest community supported nature preserve in Westchester County. Our aim is to conserve open space for generations to come through science-based stewardship initiatives that protect habitats, biodiversity, and the ecosystem services we depend upon. We offer 15 miles of hiking trails; a Nature Center with indoor and outdoor animal exhibits; a two-acre island refuge for more than 230 species of native wildflowers, and year-round programming for adults and children. Teatown is an equal opportunity employer.

Generous benefits package: Medical, Dental, Vision, Disability, 403(b) retirement plan with employer match; paid time off, including annual leave, sick leave, personal days, and federal and floating holidays.

English, fluent. Spanish fluency is a plus.