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Senior Programming & Events Manager (Hybrid)

Chicago, IL or Washington, D.C

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We have an opportunity at our offices in Chicago or Washington DC office for a Senior Programming & Events Manager (Hybrid) on our Digital Health and AI team. This is a hybrid position reporting into our AMA office, requiring 3 days a week in the office.

As a Senior Programming & Events Manager, you will be responsible for developing and managing the Center for Digital Health and AI’s events and programming, including hosted events, sponsorships, executive speaking opportunities, and external programming initiatives. This role provides leadership and oversight, ensuring programming activities align with the Center’s priorities and are delivered effectively. This role partners across the AMA to drive thought leadership, stakeholder engagement, operational efficiency, and strong return on investment across the events and programming function.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Programming and Portfolio Management

• Develop and manage the annual planning for the Center’s events and programming portfolio, including hosted events, sponsored events, executive speaking engagements, and external visibility opportunities, to support the Center’s priorities, stakeholder engagement, and thought leadership in digital health and AI.
• Set clear program goals, success measures, key performance indicators, and ROI frameworks across all event and programming activities.
• Evaluate and prioritize opportunities for participation, sponsorship, partnership, and hosted convenings based on strategic value, audience alignment, and organizational impact.
• Determine the continuation, expansion, redesign, or sunset of initiatives based on performance, relevance, and business impact, within established authority.
• Ensure the Center’s event and programming strategy remains responsive to organizational priorities, market opportunities, and the evolving health technology landscape.

Cross-Functional Collaboration and Event Planning

• Partner closely with Center leadership and colleagues across communications, marketing, digital, operations, finance, legal, procurement, and other AMA business units to align event and program efforts with organizational priorities and coordinate execution.
• Resolve competing priorities and facilitate alignment across diverse stakeholder groups to support coordinated programming activities and decisions, often under tight timelines and in high-visibility environments.
• Oversee the planning and execution of high-visibility external engagements, sponsorships, speaking opportunities, and Center-hosted events across in-person, virtual, and hybrid formats.
• Provide oversight of executive programming activities, including speaker placement, messaging alignment, pitch development, and post-event follow-up, ensuring alignment with audience priorities, brand standards, and organizational objectives.
• Provide oversight of relationships with external organizers, sponsors, vendors, associations, and partners.
• Guide the development of speaker materials, session concepts, talking points, promotional content, and event deliverables that position the Center and AMA leadership as thought leaders.
• Represent the Center at select events and meetings, providing oversight, stakeholder support, and issue resolution as needed.
• Guide the development of flagship events, executive engagements, and thought leadership platforms that strengthen the Center’s visibility and reputation.

Operational Excellence, Budget Oversight, and Reporting

• Oversee budgets, timelines, contracts, and resource allocation across the events and programming function, ensuring strong stewardship and sound decision-making.
• Ensure appropriate processes are in place for event planning, vendor management, contracting, communications, logistics, reporting, and risk mitigation.
• Lead ongoing improvement of tools, templates, dashboards, and workflows to support efficiency, consistency, and scalability.
• Review portfolio performance and team reporting to identify insights, communicate outcomes, and inform future planning, and communicate event outcomes, ROI, lessons learned, and improvement opportunities to leadership.

Staff Management (to be deleted if not applicable)

• Lead, mentor, and provide management oversight for staff.
• Responsible for setting objectives, evaluating employee performance, and fostering a collaborative team environment.
• Responsible for developing staff knowledge and skills to support career development.

May include other responsibilities as assigned

REQUIREMENTS:

• Education: Bachelor's degree required (P1+/M1+)
• Years of experience: 7+ years of progressive experience in event programming, communications, marketing, project management, or a related field
• Significant experience leading complex, high-visibility events and executive-level programming initiatives across multiple formats
• Experience in people management preferred

The American Medical Association is located at 330 N. Wabash Avenue, Chicago, IL 60611 and is convenient to all public transportation in Chicago, and our Washington, D.C. office is located at 25 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001.

This role is an exempt position, and the Chicago, IL salary range for this position is $104,900-$138,700. The Washington, D.C. salary range is $109,900-$145,300. This is the lowest to highest salary we believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. An employee’s pay within the salary range will be determined by a variety of factors including but not limited to business consideration and geographical location, as well as candidate qualifications, such as skills, education, and experience. Employees are also eligible to participate in an incentive plan. To learn more about the American Medical Association’s benefits offerings, please click here.

We are an equal opportunity employer, committed to diversity in our workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment. As an EOE/AA employer, the American Medical Association will not discriminate in its employment practices due to an applicant’s race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity and veteran or disability status.

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