Does a well-coordinated gathering make you smile? Do you love organizing and preparing for people to come together for a shared interest? Do you enjoy meeting with people and helping them facilitate their perfect event? If so, read on…

CIC is looking for a personable and organized individual to help support the events team. This is an exciting, full-time opportunity for someone with at least 1-2 years of experience in a related role.

ABOUT CIC

CIC’s mission is to fix the world through innovation by helping exceptional entrepreneurs innovate better and faster. We offer a unique working environment that combines private, secure office areas alongside shared amenities, and we currently serve 1000+ companies across Cambridge, Boston, St. Louis, Miami, and Rotterdam. We pride ourselves on displaying a high degree of care and accuracy in everything that we do, and we work to ensure that our clients thrive every day that they are in our space. We believe that our ability to support world-changing entrepreneurs is only as good as the people who make up our teams, and as such we are looking for people who are interested in contributing to--and improving--the way we work.

ABOUT CIC EVENTS

Events play a critical role in our community by providing entrepreneurs, innovators, and others with an outlet to collaborate and network with like-minded individuals. A variety of events occur at CIC, such as industry-specific presentations, programming meetups, pitching exercises, startup workshops, and panel discussions. The types of events we support benefit entrepreneurs by giving them the tools, skills, and resources needed to flourish. Every month, CIC hosts about 70-100 events spread across our three Boston-area locations in Kendall Square and Boston. Learn more about events at CIC through our public events calendar and our blog.

THE IDEAL CANDIDATE

Overall, we like to employ service-minded people who are reliable, clever, and able to work independently. More specifically, we are looking for someone who possesses the following characteristics:

· Personable and naturally enjoys helping others

· Incredibly detail-oriented and organized with solid time management skills

· Excellent communicator and listener, both written and verbal, with anyone including colleagues, clients, vendors, and event hosts

· Independent, trustworthy, and willing to learn

· Calm in a very busy environment and confident when dealing with uncertainty and last minute changes

GENERAL OVERVIEW OF RESPONSIBILITIES

This person will primarily work with the other members of the Events Team, but will also frequently engage with other internal CIC teams across Cambridge and Boston. This role includes both collaborative projects with the team, as well as independent work leading event coordination and niche projects. The position has the potential to be based in CIC Boston or CIC Cambridge based on team need at the time of hire.

Responsibilities may include, but are not limited to:

· Screening and reviewing incoming event inquiries from CIC members, collaborators in the innovation community, and other companies and organizations. Typically event inquiries are received through a form on our website, in which questions range from basic event details to general content of the event. Form is available here.

· Coordinating event details through the entire process, while communicating the philosophy of CIC’s events program and explaining the parameters for hosting events at CIC. Event coordination includes providing tours and quotes for event spaces, communicating with building management and security, updating the Certificate of Insurance for vendors, issuing quotes, invoices, and tracking payments, ensuring all event details are clear to the Events Team and in line with CIC policies, marketing events to the startup community, arranging event staffing, and managing event follow-up and evaluation.

· Coordinating with CIC staff teams to schedule and participate in event staffing, setup, and breakdown. Act as a resource to event hosts during the event to generally ensure that the event runs smoothly.

· Developing and maintaining a positive and collaborative working relationship with new and existing partners in the innovation ecosystem; working with them to create events of interest for the CIC community.

· Collaborating with the Head of Events and teammates on projects to improve event services.

· Participating in training new Event Team members.

ATTRACTIONS OF WORKING AT CIC

· Fun people in a funky environment. What does our staff love most about working here? Their colleagues!

· Cool, creative clients. The 1000+ clients and staff at CIC are sharp, diverse, motivated, and work in mostly startup high tech and life sciences companies.

· Central location. CIC Boston is centrally located to the Blue, Green, Red, and Orange MBTA lines, and CIC Cambridge is a stone’s throw from the Kendall Square MBTA Red Line stop.

· Chic tech workspace that inspires innovation and community. Kitchens with Italian soda machines, peanut M&Ms, a bounty of fruit, kettle cooked chips, and so much more.

· Access to Venture Cafe, the largest networking gathering in the entrepreneurial community in the Boston area.

· Personal growth. This is a great opportunity to learn and develop skills within the epicenter of the innovation community in Cambridge/Boston.

REQUIREMENTS

· Minimum of a bachelor’s degree

· One to two years of professional experience with coordinating events (experience with professional event coordination, community organizing, the innovation ecosystem, or community building strongly preferred)

· Occasionally available on nights and weekends

· A natural interest for helping/supporting others

· An interest in a long-term role, we are a growing company, and we like to hire people who can grow with us over the years

Starting compensation is $47,129 per year plus 100% of the cost of a premium healthcare and dental package, long and short-term disability, life insurance, and two weeks vacation from the start (more with seniority). Annual reviews with raises every year for those on track with strong performance.

CIC is committed to building teams that reflect the fabric of the cities we support. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and consider all qualified candidates regardless of race, color, ancestry, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, Veteran status, or any other legally protected status. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation please let us know.