LP4Y USA Events Coordinator Volunteer

Location: New York City (with some hybrid flexibility)

Position Summary

LP4Y USA is seeking a volunteer to lead and revitalize the organization’s annual and community events calendar, with a focus on expanding donor engagement, strengthening community ties, and amplifying LP4Y’s visibility across the New York metropolitan area. This role is essential to sustaining LP4Y USA’s event momentum, introducing new signature gatherings and ensuring the success of key existing events.

Key Responsibilities

• Revitalize and strategically manage the LP4Y USA annual events calendar to ensure consistent donor engagement and community activation throughout the year.
• Spearhead new events in the larger New York metropolitan area, including networking breakfasts, cultural gatherings, corporate events, and donor appreciation opportunities.
• Assist and collaborate with the events team to ensure the continued success of LP4Y USA flagship events: the Gala, White Night, Youth Inclusion Forum, Together We Art, “We Are the Future” YouthVisions film screening.
• Manage event logistics, including vendor coordination, venue selection, programming, budgeting, and on-site execution.
• Develop and implement a comprehensive communication and promotion plan for all events in partnership with the LP4Y USA Communications Leads and the Global LP4Y Communications team.
• Ensure all events consistently reflect LP4Y’s mission, brand, and values.

Ideal Profile

• Passionate individual with global visibility, ideally with experience hosting or sponsoring philanthropic events.
• Experience with event planning, nonprofits, or public/private partnerships; familiarity with the US donor landscape.
• Awareness of or affinity with LP4Y’s mission to support excluded youth through entrepreneurship and professional integration.

Commitment

• Minimum 20 hours per week, with increased engagement prior to the annual Gala held in March and flexibility upon personal commitments.
• In-person attendance at LP4Y USA’s major events and participation in necessary meetings and planning.
• Availability to leverage networks and support outreach throughout the year.

What LP4Y Offers

Joining LP4Y offers a unique opportunity to develop high-impact, transferable skills and build meaningful professional networks in a purpose-driven, entrepreneurial environment. Benefits of our volunteer positions include:

• Leadership in organizing high-profile philanthropic and corporate events, including LP4Y’s flagship Annual Gala.
• Opportunities to build relationships with key partners and sponsors across high-level philanthropic, corporate, CSR, and artistic networks.
• A start-up style of work allowing significant independence, agility, and room for personal initiative and leadership.
• Development of core project management, communications, stakeholder engagement, and event planning skills.
• An opportunity to directly contribute to systemic change for excluded Youth and to be part of an international movement for youth inclusion.
• Exposure to LP4Y’s global ecosystem, including connections with the United Nations, CSR leaders, corporate partners, and youth inclusion actors across 14 countries.
• Potential to visit the field (depending on interest, organizational needs, and available resources) to strengthen understanding of LP4Y’s local impact.

Interested? Please send your resume and a short statement of interest to ob.usa@lp4y.org.