Gravity Research is seeking a highly motivated candidate to join our growing firm as an Events & Stakeholder Engagement Associate. The ideal candidate will have excellent written and oral communication skills, a passion for creating memorable, high-touch experiences, and will be exceptionally driven, organized, persistent, and collaborative.

This is a dynamic role that spans event operations and audience engagement responsibilities to help build and scale the events function within a growing research and consulting enterprise. Gravity Research’s revenue team offers ample opportunities for mentorship and development.

Gravity Research, born of National Journal, is a premier custom research and insights organization supporting corporate, association, and nonprofit clients. Our mission is to empower organizations to anticipate risk, spot opportunities, and rationalize reputational concerns against a backdrop of evolving public pressures.

What is the Gravity Research Revenue Team?

Gravity Research Events, situated within the Gravity Research Revenue Team, is looking for a talented candidate to help drive growth through our in-person and virtual events series. Gravity Research’s business is dedicated to equipping communications and advocacy leaders with insights to inform and support their strategies related to brand reputation and mitigating risk. The events team plays a central role in how Gravity Research builds relationships, showcases our research, and creates compelling experiences with prospective and current clients.

The Role: 

The Events & Stakeholder Engagement Associate will play a key role in shaping how Gravity Research engages prospective and current clients through in-person and virtual events, owning critical outreach efforts, supporting event execution, and helping to establish strategic processes as the function grows. They will work closely across internal stakeholders responsible for Events, Revenue, and Research to bring a shared vision to life that serves the team’s overall goals of delivering exceptional experiences and driving revenue for the business.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead outreach to Fortune 1000 communications, corporate affairs, and other key executives 

• Coordinate with the revenue teams to ensure events serve as a key value driver for client renewal and a lever for prospect engagement

• Develop recruitment strategies that include compelling messaging and creative tactics to meet or exceed target audience goals

• Develop event timelines and a communications calendar for individual events 

• Represent the Chief Executive Officer and the Gravity Research brand with prospective and current clients via email communication, phone calls, and in-person engagements

• Keep accurate logs of event details, activities, and invitee contact information using a CRM platform (Salesforce)

• Coordinate knowledge management by maintaining databases and shared drives

• To perform this job successfully, each essential competency and responsibility must be performed satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable an individual with disabilities to perform essential functions. Other duties may be assigned to meet organizational goals

Qualifications:

• Earned Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited college/university

• Strong work ethic driven by intellectual curiosity, persistence, and tenacity

• Excellent written and oral communicator

• Creative thinking and resourcefulness in problem-solving

• Meticulous attention to detail 

• High-energy, demonstrates sense of urgency, poised under pressure and understands the importance of the little details and follow through

• A self-starter, motivated and eager to deliver external and internal customer service

• Strategic thinker with a track record of finding creative solutions to improve workplace processes and systems

• High-level organization and time management skills with the ability to be proactive, effectively prioritize tasks, and efficiently respond to urgent requests

• Interest in driving growth through the intersection of events, marketing, and thought leadership

• Active contributor to a diverse and inclusive workplace, fostering an environment where all individuals feel valued and respected.

Employment Type: Full-time

Compensation: The salary range for this role is $60,000-$65,000 + commission.

Location: This job is based in Washington, DC. Gravity Research operates on a hybrid schedule, with employees required to be in the office every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.

About Us

Across Gravity Research, generally, the firm looks for three “pillar gifts” in you, and everyone else.  In all of us, these are more aspirational than actual, but they are central in our intentions –

• Force of Ideas: At the center of Gravity Research’s work are the ideas within our work. We believe that ideas—the good and not—have consequences. Our ultimate objective is to bring rigor, insight, and intellectual honesty to the goal of separating the bad from the good, and giving voice, argument, and flight to maintaining the latter.

• Spirit of Generosity:  Gravity Research seeks in its ranks a spirit of generosity: a natural disposition in each colleague toward service and selfless conduct. Our writing should be cut from the same cloth—critical on the merits, but informed by charity and forbearance in measuring motive and personal character.

• Radical Responsibility: We give our people a lot of responsibility early on, and our top performers embrace it. We believe in holding ourselves and our colleagues accountable, taking ownership over big things, striving for excellence, and celebrating success.

Gravity Research is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate against our applicants because of race, color, religion, sex (including gender identity, sexual orientation, and pregnancy), national origin, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable law.