Do you find satisfaction in helping people and making a difference in their lives and the lives of their communities? Laborde Earles is committed to providing quality representation to our clients and being fully attentive to their needs, which starts by providing the same favorable environment for our team members. Join us in standing up for our clients, with our community, by our work, and beside each other!
The Opportunity:We are looking for a highly-organized Event and Community Coordinator to set the bar high for our staff and community events. The Event and Community Coordinator works to continuously improve the competitive position of the firm and maintain the culture by coordinating and executing community and staff events and client gifting campaigns and facilitating marketing efforts that align with our vision, mission, core values. This is an ideal position for a solution-driven, self-starter with specific expertise in successful execution of in-person and virtual events, who would like to join our growing and high performing team. As part of our Marketing Team, you will support our firm wide success by enhancing company culture and client growth. This role requires exceptional time management and adaptability skills to take the firm to new heights with respect to event execution . A successful candidate for this role will be a social adept and creative spirit who is dedicated to providing flawless execution of our marketing vision and strategies.
What Winning Looks Like:

• Accountable to coordinate and execute all community and internal staff events based on Leadership's goals and strategies.
• Create project scope and work with the Marketing Team to develop plans with assigned roles, action steps, and deadlines
• Coordinate with vendors and internal staff to ensure accuracy and timeliness of guest lists, food and beverages, lodging, transportation, equipment, music, invitations, supplies, materials personnel, and location reservation for each event
• Work with marketing team to promote event across channels, including social media and website
• Monitor and report internal and client event registrations (e.g., how many, who, etc.); proactively discuss concerns in registration and plan for solution
• Research possible vendors and negotiate contracts to stay within budget. Work with director of marketing to obtain approval on all costs
• Manage all day-of event production from start to finish, participating on-site, engaging with clients and/or staff, and supervising all on-site support staff and vendors
• Exercise judgment to address unforeseen issues in a calm and productive way, proactively planning for any potential issues as much as possible
• Manage post-event writeup, including opportunities for improvement to maximize ROI of events
• Community involvement: serves as the gatekeeper to all sponsorships, donation and volunteer requests and acts as the community liaison to the local communities in which we serve
• Research, plan, & execute community outreach/volunteer opportunities
• Serve as the gatekeeper to all sponsorships, donation, and volunteer requests

• Accountable to design and execute client gifting campaigns.
• Plan & execute gifting campaigns for external referrals/past clients/current clients, including creating and sending swag boxes and other gifts for clients
• Work with marketing team on touchpoints for clients throughout the customer journey

• Accountable to facilitate marketing efforts that align with our vision, mission, and core values.
• Assist video team with video-related projects for firm when needed
• Attend and participate in weekly marketing team meetings, reporting on progress towards deadlines
• Assist in developing PowerPoint presentations for events when necessary
• Assist Business Development Liaison in market research
• Assist with other internal projects and job-related duties as assigned

Skills Needed to Win:

• Accentuate the Details: must have high attention to detail and a strong sense of urgency
• Exercise Creativity: must have a creative mindset with a passion for testing new ideas
• Communicate: Excellent collaborative and communication skills, both verbal and written
• Present Solutions: able to be a proactive critical thinker with a solution-oriented mindset, follow instructions, use discretion, ask questions when necessary and be detail oriented
• Be Honorable: able to act with integrity, professionalism, and confidentiality and display good judgement as well as remain calm and be adaptable during event execution
• Strategize: able to organize and prioritize effectively and efficiently as well as maintain excellent time management to manage multiple complex and time-sensitive projects at a time
• Harness Flexibility: able to be flexible to work overtime when needed; some travel is required

Preferred Education & Experience:

• At least three years of experience successfully executing in-person and virtual events, including contract negotiation, event planning and execution management with multiple venues and suppliers simultaneously
• Proficient in Graphic Design
• A track record of foreseeing potential issues and proactively solving for them ahead of time to reduce risk
• Strong record of meeting deadlines
• Familiarity with marketing and social media

Physical Requirements:

• Prolonged periods sitting at a desk and working on a computer
• Must be able to lift up to 15 pounds at times

The Perks of Being Part of Our Laborde Earles Community:

• Optional companywide events allowing you to play as hard as you work, such as Crawfish Boils, Christmas parties, Retreats, and more!
• Work-life balance is encouraged as we consider 36.5 hours your full-time requirement and we rarely exceed a 40-hour workweek. We prefer you work to live, not live to work.
• We celebrate life's little (& big) moments with you from birthdays & work anniversaries to marriages and births, as well as, support you when the going gets tough from procedures/hospitalizations to loss of a loved one.
• Collaboration and team member rapport is cheered and emboldened.
• We offer many competitive benefits upon eligibility waiting periods:
• Company-paid Short-term disability, Life/AD&D, and Telemedicine
• Health, vision, dental, long-term disability, critical illness, and additional life insurance policies upon eligibility waiting periods
• 401(k) and profit sharing options upon eligibility waiting periods
• PTO, paid holidays (10), and paid maternity leave
• Health Savings Account (HSA), Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA), including dependent care
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Who We AreWe are a team and community-oriented personal injury law firm dedicated to winning for our clients who have had their lives turned upside down from injuries through no fault of their own. With multiple offices across Louisiana, we focus on ensuring people get maximum monetary compensation for various types of personal injuries or loss of a loved one from incidents like car wrecks, truck accidents, offshore, and workplace injuries. Our founders joined forces to build the premier law firm in Louisiana. With over 250 years of combined experience, our attorneys have earned a powerful reputation and have been nationally recognized as top trial lawyers. As a dedicated and high-performing team, we pride ourselves in our core values: All In, Work Hard, Play Hard, Honorable, Cutting Edge, Community, and Winners, Not Whiners. With all the proper tools in place, our mission is to stand up for our clients, stand with our community, stand by our work, and stand beside each other. You may begin your journey with Laborde Earles for many different reasons, but you stay for the team.