[Hiring] Licensing Coordinator @TED Conferences, LLC

Role Description

The ideal candidate is mission-driven and eager to support our expanding global community. You’ll act as an informed resource for new applicants and returning organizers, and you’ll also bubble up questions, concerns, or confusion from the community so we can better tailor and refine our resources. You must be detail-oriented and methodical. Day-to-day work involves a variety of tasks, including:

• Handling communication with potential and current organizers
• Managing the review process from start to finish for a high volume of applications
• Monitoring, maintaining, and prioritizing several different workflows

Qualifications

• A Bachelor’s Degree
• Organized and excels at handling a high volume workload
• Community-minded and willing to offer support for any task, no matter how small
• Excels at time management, completing tasks at a high level of quality
• Resourceful, proactive, and excited to learn and take on new challenges
• Strong customer service orientation: Can represent TEDx to prospective and existing organizers and communicate with our volunteer community with clarity and compassion
• Interested in learning more about community development and excited to engage with diverse cultures on a day-to-day basis
• Proficient in using a Mac
• A passion for TED and TEDx with a broad interest in the world

Requirements

• Experience living or working in another country
• Ability to speak another language
• Familiarity with Salesforce
• Proficiency in Google Drive Applications

Benefits

• Remote work is an option for this position
• Must have your own stable Wi-Fi connection if working remotely

Company Description

TED is on a mission to discover and spread ideas that spark imagination, embrace possibility, and catalyze impact. Our organization is devoted to curiosity, reason, wonder, and the pursuit of knowledge — without an agenda. We welcome people from every discipline and culture who seek a deeper understanding of the world and connection with others, and we invite everyone to engage with ideas and activate them in your community.

Established in 2009, the TEDx program has grown rapidly, enabling more than 26,000 independently organized events in over 170 countries. These events range from highly produced gatherings in world capitals to small events in rural communities.