Events Content Operations Specialist

Job Description

Job Description

Who We Are
Association for Financial Professionals (AFP) drives the future of finance and treasury by developing the leaders of tomorrow through world-class certifications, learning experiences, membership, events, and thought leadership.

AFP's core values center on growth, collaboration, innovation, and courageous leadership. We are looking for people who are passionate about building products that create meaningful value for our members and customers.

A Typical Week May Look Like This…

• Coordinate event programming timelines, speaker communications, and session logistics from planning through execution.
• Manage the end-to-end speaker experience, including onboarding, agreements, presentation materials, travel coordination, and event readiness.
• Research and support keynote speaker selection while coordinating logistics and deliverables.
• Administer the call-for-proposals process, including submission tracking, review coordination, and speaker notifications.
• Maintain accurate speaker, session, and event information across the website, event app, LMS, webinar platforms, and internal systems.
• Partner with Marketing, Sponsorship, Certification, and Event Operations teams to deliver exceptional attendee experiences.
• Provide onsite and virtual event support to ensure speakers and educational sessions run smoothly.
• Recommend process improvements that increase efficiency, consistency, and quality across event operations.

Is This You?

• 2–5 years of experience supporting conferences, events, speaker management, training programs, or educational programming.
• Exceptional organizational and project management skills with strong attention to detail.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with a customer-service mindset.
• Experience managing multiple priorities and deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
• Comfort learning and using event technology platforms, CRMs, webinar tools, and Microsoft Office.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience preferred.
• Willingness to travel occasionally and support events outside normal business hours when needed.

This Is Us!

• We are a collaborative team of individuals who are hardworking and entrepreneurial.
• We take ownership in how our specific role drives the organization’s success.
• We are intellectually curious and have a strong ability to adapt to change.
• We work autonomously and in cross functional teams and are dedicated to demonstrating extraordinary results at a fast pace.

AFP Offers:

• A collegial, casual work environment.
• Competitive base salary + a generous commission plan.
• Great career growth.
• Superb benefits plan, including a generous vacation/sick/holiday leave policy, medical, dental and vision health insurance, 401K plan with employer match and flexible schedules.
• "When Work Works" award by the Society for Human Resource Management for our flexible workplace.

AFP CORE VALUES

We exist for the success of the corporate finance professional and seek candidates who embody our AFP Core Values:

• We always strive to be better.
• We listen, we speak up, we smash silos.
• We are courageous.
• We are all in it together.

This posting is not intended to be all-inclusive, and responsibilities can be expected to evolve over time to meet changing business needs. The employee may be required to perform other related duties to meet these needs. While AFP’s intent is always to be clear and transparent about the expectations of this role, this job description may be reviewed and updated accordingly with or without notice. AFP is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other protected characteristic under federal, state, or local law. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.