Specifications include, but are not limited to: 1. Develop and manage a conference direction and a detailed budget; 2. Secure sponsors and exhibitors to provide both financial and marketing support to the conference; provide strategic recommendations on how to grow sponsor/exhibitor revenue streams; 3. Facilitate the conference planning committee to develop an agenda of a broad range of topics and to select keynote speakers and session presenters; 4. Work closely with “track teams” that determine session content for the conference subject-area tracks (Homeownership, Multifamily Development, Multifamily Management, and Advocacy/Communications). 5. Secure negotiated contracts with national and regional level speakers and subject experts who are engaging, informative, and who motivate attendance; deliver the entire program within a preset speaker budget; work directly with the contract manager on negotiations; 6. Provide quality speaker management services, including coordinating travel and hotel arrangements, arranging and managing experienced audio visual services, receiving presentations from speakers and syncing with audio visual team, developing a communication system with speakers to ensure an accurate information exchange, developing and tracking an up-to-date master speaker roster, troubleshooting last-minute cancellations, organizing replacements, developing welcome packets with hotel, writing post-conference thank you letters, managing speaker invoice payments, and handling other communication needs; 7. Manage the conference website, www.housingwa.org, and social media channels. 8. Market the conference to existing conference audiences as well as new and underserved audiences across Washington state; manage the conference’s visual brand identity and voice; develop and distribute digital and printed materials to support marketing and communications needs.
