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Event Manager (maternity cover) Amsterdam Event Manager 24 hours per week | 6 months maternity cover | January through June 2027 Do you bring people and planet together through events that truly matter? Is organising in your blood? Then we'd love to meet you, and we warmly invite you to apply for this position. Your role As the Event Manager at Commonland, you develop and deliver events that advance our mission to restore landscapes and move communities towards a regenerative future.
You are part of the Communications team and work closely with the Fundraising team, making sure every event is strategically aligned, professionally executed and tailored to its audience, whether that's restoration practitioners, funders, policymakers or the wider public. Your events help us strengthen local organisations working on landscape restoration, spark collaboration, share best practices and connect them with funders, policy actors and fellow changemakers.
In doing so, you help amplify their impact at local, regional and global scale, and support our work with partners across sectors to shift financial flows and public policy toward regenerative land use systems. Your impact - Execute the event strategy with the team lead, as part of the wider communications strategy. - External events production (on the ground or preparing colleagues to attend pending on Commonland's involvement) of different sizes at local, regional, and global levels; e.g.
side events at Amsterdam Climate Week, London Climate Action Week, United Nations Climate Change Conference, New York Climate Week. - Support various teams to develop event impact strategies and actively seeking for participation opportunities, for example: - Inspiration events for funders, e.g. landscape visits, and the Commonland team. - Organizing (side) events or seeking speaking opportunities, where we aim to spread our message to specific audiences, including the wider public, funders, ...