Senior Associate, Global Programming

**About the Milken Institute** The Milken Institute is a globally minded, publicly supported, non-partisan, and nonprofit think tank headquartered in Santa Monica, with offices in Washington, DC, New York, London, Abu Dhabi, and Singapore. For the past three decades, the Milken Institute has served as a catalyst for practical, scalable solutions to global challenges by connecting human, financial, and educational resources to those who need them. Guided by a conviction that the best ideas, under-resourced, cannot succeed, we conduct research and analysis and convene top experts, innovators, and influencers from different backgrounds and competing viewpoints. We leverage this expertise and insight to construct programs and policy initiatives. These activities are designed to help people build meaningful lives, in which they can experience health and well-being, pursue effective education and gainful employment, and access the resources required to create ever-expanding opportunities for themselves and their broader communities. The Milken Institute’s events and programmatic activities, involve the exchange of ideas with leaders from around the world. The Institute hosts more than 200 events each year, with our annual flagship event, Global Conference, bringing together 4,500+ participants from around the world, featuring more than 900+ speakers throughout 200+ sessions over the course of the event. **About the Position** The Milken Institute seeks a Senior Associate to join our dynamic Global Programming team. Members of this team oversee the content development and stakeholder engagement throughout all of the Milken Institute’s marquee events, including our flagship Global Conference. Successful candidates will bring organization, attention to detail, and creativity to bear, adding value to the Institute’s programmatic reputation and event execution. Reporting to the Director of Global Programming, the incoming Senior Associate will assist with the development of our bi-annual Dialogues programs as well as support functions of the broader Global Programming team, including our global portfolio of convenings connected to the Milken Institute’s research pillars , the Milken Center for Advancing the American Dream, and our flagship Global Conference. **Responsibilities** - **Topical Research and Content Development:** - Contribute to creative ideation between programming colleagues, business development, and pillar colleagues to ensure the most relevant, innovative, and action-oriented content is highlighted at our events. - Stay abreast of important trends connected to the Milken Institute’s mission and conduct research on timely global challenges, priorities, and trends to help inform program development, session descriptions, thought leadership, and talking points within speaker briefing materials. - Research and identify prominent and emerging leaders, including social entrepreneurs, innovative corporate executives, leading researchers, and public influencers to complement the existing high-level Milken Institute network. - Support content curation and session development, draft session descriptions and briefing documents, ensure program materials have mission-aligned narratives and clear, timely objectives. - Implement and project manage day-to-day activities and processes between multiple stakeholder groups in close coordination with colleagues – creating strong communication paths and working relationships. - **Relationship Management and Stakeholder Engagement:** - Support speaker outreach and relationship management by drafting speaker invitations, researching principal expertise. - Prepare and design supporting documents sent to speakers to support a seamless engagement experience – including session-specific briefing materials, bespoke itineraries, etc. - **I** **nternal Coordination:** - Support inter- and intradepartmental communications to ensure smooth collaboration, effective processes, and deadlines are met for…