Events and Production Professional

Your role

Do you have a minimum of 10 years of experience with organizing business events, and are you keen to make the next step? Would you like to make a difference in a purpose-driven organization with a diverse events offering ranging from strategic convenings to live-streams from our fully equipped in-house studio? Then you might just be FMO’s new Events & Production professional!

FMO is the Dutch entrepreneurial development bank, supporting entrepreneurs in over 80 emerging economies to foster inclusive and sustainable prosperity. Our work is challenging, as we operate in societies vulnerable to climate change and persistent inequality.

At the Corporate Stakeholder Engagement (CSE) department, we build trusted relationships with national and international stakeholders, including employees, governments, civil society, media, financial peers, knowledge partners, customers, and investees. By understanding and collaborating with each other, we can create a greater positive impact.

We are seeking an experienced events professional to join our department. This role involves organizing flagship events, managing our in-house studio, and strategically enhancing our convening power to facilitate positive impact.

Candidates must have extensive experience in organizing in-person, hybrid, and online events, managing design and production agencies, running multi-platform broadcasts and studio productions, and troubleshooting broadcasts and small-scale recordings.

The Event & Production Professional reports to the Director of Corporate Stakeholder Engagement.

The Events and Production role is a very diverse role. You will be responsible for different types of occasions, ranging from but not limited to:

• Organizing our annual flagship conferences (500-750 people): Future of Finance or Future of Energy
• Organizing our in-person All Staff events (600-800 people, twice a year).
• Running our hybrid All Staff meetings (from our in-house Studio, twice a year).
• Organizing our FMO Sports Day (350 people).
• Organizing larger client convenings (in-person and/or hybrid from our in-house Studio).
• Organizing small-scale stakeholder or customer meetings (on FMO premises or in one of our regional offices).
• Managing productions in our recording facilities (e.g. podcasts, webinars etc.).
• Advising on smaller FMO events, organized by our respective departments or committees (e.g. staff party).

Organizing

FMO is renowned for our flagship conferences, taking a unique approach to inspire others in development finance. We host one major event annually. You will:

• Lead the strategic design and event team, coordinating all aspects including venue, suppliers, speakers, budgets, entertainment, tech, and logistics.
• Advise FMO’s leadership and subject matter experts, guiding them to shape impactful events.
• Be resilient, diplomatic, detail-oriented, and maintain high standards.
• Collaborate with communication colleagues to ensure timely content release.
• Oversee protocol and etiquette for high-level guests.
• Draft plans, prepare decisions, and conduct post-event analyses to improve future events.

Advising & designing

You will work with people inside and outside FMO with varying event production experience. You will:

• Help them boost each event as a platform for change and encourage innovative approaches.
• Coach and build confidence in others, fostering buy-in for new methods.
• Empower others with guidance and course-correct diplomatically when needed.
• Manage design agencies and create smaller designs when necessary.

Producing

We have a fully equipped in-house studio for hybrid meetings, webinars, client convenings, and trainings. You will:

• Manage studio production from start to finish, including hiring technical support and ensuring seamless delivery.
• Leverage our facilities creatively, such as creating podcasts to generate excitement for upcoming webinars
• Promote optimal use of studio facilities within FMO.

Our offer

This job is within Scale 10 in FMO, and you will be hired as a "Corporate Communications Advisor". This is a 0.8 FTE position, which means you will work 32 hours per week, 4 days per week. We offer a competitive salary, commensurate with your experience and background. Besides this, we offer:

• Meaningful and impactful work in an international work environment.
• Premium-free pension and 25 holiday days.
• Flexible work arrangements and hybrid ways of working can be considered when working remotely.
• A 24/7 NS transport card and training budget.
• Our beautiful work premises are a 5-minute walk from Laan van NOI station in The Hague.

For more information, please visit our website Secondary Benefits - FMO and our employee value proposition 🤩 https://www.fmo.nl/employee-value-proposition 

Please note: To be selected for this position, you must reside currently in the Netherlands.

About FMO

FMO delivers economic, social, and environmental development to entrepreneurial initiatives on a global scale, believing in our contribution to a better world, starting from our values as an organization and respect within our teams.

To learn more about who we are, our Vision, Purpose, Mission, Company Culture, and Leadership, please visit our Profile page at FMO. At FMO, we are guided by our four core values: Diversity, Integrity, Making a Difference, and Quality. These values are the foundation of our strong company culture, fostering an environment where we work together to make a positive impact on the world.

Ready to make an impact and truly make a difference? Join us at FMO!

Your team

The CSE department is a busy hub where a lot of different workstreams related to our diverse internal and external stakeholder field come together. Often predictable, but sometimes with very tight turnaround times due to last minute requests, requirements, and developments. We quite like the buzz that comes with this dynamic.

Our department is responsible for: internal & change communication, external communication, stakeholder engagement, media relations, events and production.

The department has 14 team members, including a management team of one Director and one Manager.

Your background

You have:

• 10+ years of experience in event management.
• Technical proficiency, using event management and studio software and hardware, virtual platforms, and other technologies such as video editing skills to enhance event experiences. 
• Experience with: CRM software, event registration platforms, Adobe InDesign and/or Illustrator (Adobe Creative Suite).
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills to interact with clients, vendors, and attendees. 
• Ability to quickly identify and resolve issues that may occur during planning or execution. 
• Thrive under pressure, handling last-minute changes, and continuously learning new technologies and trends. 
• You have excellent English proficiency.
• Cultural intelligence, negotiation and analytical skills.
• Excellent diplomacy, communications, interpersonal and presentation skills, both oral and written. Intuitively you know when to be steadfast in your opinion and when to be more flexible, both for the benefit of the organization as a whole. 

What's in it for you?

In addition to a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits, we offer a global-scale job in a challenging environment. You will become part of an ambitious and professional team that builds bridges both within and outside FMO. Excellent training and career development opportunities are included. But most of all, we offer a truly unique opportunity to make a difference! Apply today!

Please note, if we make you an offer to join FMO, you will need to work through the screening process with our screening partner. The process is designed to check your integrity and reliability.