Jessika Diamond Email & Phone Number

• Responsible for all signature events, community fundraising programs, third-party and peer-to-peer events across Canada.
• Oversaw re-branding and re-conceptualizing of Ability & Beyond signature gala to Changemakers Supper Club, introducing concepts such as a professional auctioneer, a “Fund a Need,” online auction and more.
• Planned organization’s first post-pandemic in-person event, adapting traditional event delivery to a post-Covid world.
• Led re-design of annual Walk and Roll walk into the P2P fundraiser Step Up for Stroke.
• During the Omicron Covid surge, converted OpportuniTea, a high tea with the cast of The Young and the Restless, into MODC's first successful ticketed virtual event in just five weeks.
• Modernized event marketing and delivery, including use of social media, paid digital advertising, tracking pixels, introducing live virtual events and online auctions, QR-code based donations, and improved online.

• Maternity-leave contract, extended twice.
• Responsible for managing the national IG Wealth Management Walk for Alzheimer’s.
• Managed transition of the IG Wealth Management Walk for Alzheimer’s online during Covid-19.
• Created social media campaigns, sponsorship reports, and modernized annual marketing Toolkit with impactful, person-centered messaging and flexible, modular design, allowing localization while maintaining the national.
• Managed the daily operations of a $3.4 million relationship with IG Wealth Management.
• Updated and re-wrote all brand guidelines for the Walk.

Toronto, Canada Area

• Working with various companies in the Toronto area, including charities, for-profit corporations, event and experiential marketing firms, hired for the following: - Event planning- Event management- Event concept.
• OPS Event Rentals
• Rudner McDonald LLP
• JPdL (Conference & destination management)
• Arato Events
• Ontario Culinary Tourism Alliance

Toronto, Ontario

Managed marketing and training initiatives serving the sustainable building industry. Students included builders, renovators and officials from municipal, provincial and federal governments. Oversaw marketing and planned the Housing Innovation Forum & Awards Gala.* Delivered PR and social media campaigns year-round and for the Forum & Awards, including.

• Planned fundraising, cultivation and stewardship events, and coordinated donor-member programs.
• Coordinated high-level volunteer committees to jointly plan fundraising events, including an 18-year-old golf tournament and the launch of a new golf tournament for vacationing donors in Florida.
• Planned donor stewardship events, including receptions, lectures and teas.
• Coordinated donor membership program “Leadership Sinai,” working with executive on publications, surveys, membership retention and new membership development.
• Planned dinner events for donor program “Venture Sinai,” coordinating venues, vendors and presenters. Accomplishments:o Upgraded auction production process from manual to database, saving more than 80 hours of labour.o.

• Full-time employment ended in 2006, but I continued with JPD as a freelance project manager until my departure from the U.S. more than four years later. Responsibilities included overseeing logistics and planning.
• Worked with clients to develop fundraising and cultivation strategies around events.
• With some clients, was involved from initial conception of event through development and to running it on-site.
• Negotiated contracts and handled communications with venues and vendors.
• Created and oversaw timelines, critical paths, budgets, run-of-shows and day-of schedules.
• Supervised and managed volunteers, event staff and vendors both prior to event as well as on-site.

• Maternity-leave contract, hired for four months, extended to one year.
• Coordinated with external groups and high-level volunteer committees to jointly plan events, including the hospital’s new signature concert, a golf tournament, a head-shaving-for-cancer-research, and a dinner/auction.
• Independently planned high-profile internal events, including a performance by the cast of the musical WICKED, and a $2 million cheque presentation ceremony.
• Managed logistical planning, including registration processes, timelines, staffing, volunteers, vendors and budgets.
• Developed Community Fundraiser policies, creating a structure for oversight and coordination of the more than 100 third-party events held for the hospital each year. Accomplishments:o Developed hospital’s first.

• Hired for one school year.
• Coordinated high-level volunteer committee chairs, and liaised between committee and school departments.
• Oversaw and planned timelines, budgets and day-of schedules.
• Coordinated all printed material, from save-the-date cards through program book and marketing collateral.
• Managed day-of details, from load-in to strike, including logistics, staffing, volunteers and vendors.
• Despite downturn in economy, raised nearly $1 million. Accomplishments:o Brought professional standards to 30-year-old volunteer-led event, including developing new processes for registration and use of floor plans.o.

· Oversaw planning of Opening Night, Tributes and Closing Night parties.· Coordinating with venues, vendors.· Managed parties on-site from load-in to strike.· Hired for two Festival Seasons (each running less than one month)

• Mill Valley Film Festival
• Managed events department, both supervising and working hands-on on timelines, budgets, contracts, décor, sponsor solicitation and day-of schedules.
• Developed and executed solicitation strategies to partner with more than 100 food & beverage sponsors.
• Coordinated with Programming and Publications to create a smooth and cohesive Festival schedule.
• Managed permitting and licensing, dealing with municipal and state regulations, fire, police and city planning.
• Hired, trained, supervised and evaluated the Events team: venue and event managers, logistics crew and interns.

· Handled scheduling and technical requirements for concerts, workshops and an Instrument Petting Zoo. · Created all written materials, including bios, handouts, signage, maps, schedules and technical lists. · Managed all facets of the event on-site, including staff, volunteers, artists, set-up to strike.· Returned on part-time contract for multiple.

• Supervised an eight-person team responsible for successfully producing 25 concerts each season in the United States and Canada.
• Taking over in a rebuilding year, was responsible for renaming event and rebuilding brand, creating new marketing, PR, web and business strategies.
• Oversaw the selection of more than 100 competing groups, dozens of host groups, judges, venues and vendors.
• Planned the International Finals at Lincoln Center and the Beacon Theatre in New York City.
• Hired and supervised regional staff and contractors, oversaw volunteers and wrote the “Staff Bible.”
• Maintained databases of and handled communications with college groups, judges and venues.

- Oversaw the Contemporary A cappella Recording Awards- Served as Managing Editor of the Contemporary A Cappella News- Coordinated international Ambassador program- Developed the A Cappella Radio Show List