Senior Associate - Events & Outreach

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If you are excited about this opportunity but do not meet every single requirement, please apply! You still may be a great fit for this role or other open roles. We are seeking candidates who model our values: invest in every relationship, lead with curiosity, champion diverse perspectives, turn inputs into actions, and uphold trust through integrity. 

Skills and Competencies

• Proven ability to independently project manage small to mid-sized experiences and ability to collaborate across teams, regions, and time zones
• Excellent communication, relationship-building skills, and collaboration with SMEs, producers, content, and marketing teams. Strong project management and organizational skills with attention to detail
• Strong aesthetic sensibility and commitment to quality in brand design and experiential marketing
• Experience with budgets, contracts, vendor coordination, and event technology platforms/tools and experience coordinating virtual, hybrid, or large-scale events
• Proficiency in leveraging automation, reporting tools, and AI-enabled assistants to enhance workflow efficiency and insights
• Familiarity with event technology platforms, registration tools, and CRM systems and experience using automation tools, reporting dashboards, and AI assistants to support event workflows
• Basic understanding of artificial intelligence concepts, with curiosity and enthusiasm for learning how AI tools can be used to improve processes and drive efficiency. Interest in exploring AI systems and a willingness to develop awareness of responsible AI practices, including risk management and ethical use

Qualifications

• 3–5+ years of experience in event management, digital events, experiential marketing, brand activations, or creative agency work

Responsibilities
The Moody’s Ratings Events - Senior Associate supports the planning, coordination, and delivery of experiences and activations across the Australasia portfolio, while contributing to larger regional and global programs. This role focuses on delivery excellence, experience quality, and strong partner collaboration. The Senior Associate plays a key role in executing high-quality experiences while helping improve processes, tools, and ways of working — including the effective use of digital platforms, automation, and AI-enabled workflows to enhance efficiency, consistency, and insight.
This is not a traditional corporate events role. It is a creative, experience-driven position focused on delivering engaging, on-brand activations in a fast-moving, collaborative environment. The role sits within the Sydney office accompanied by another member of the events team and works closely with brand, marketing, content, communications, and external partners to ensure each experience delivers business value and a high-quality attendee journey.

• Support planning and delivery of regional events from concept through execution and post-event reporting
• Execute assigned experiences while supporting larger regional or global programs
• Translate creative briefs into engaging live and hybrid experiences
• Partner with brand, content, and creative teams to bring campaigns and narratives to life through events
• Coordinate logistics including venues, production, vendors, catering, registration, travel, and on-site execution
• Manage timelines, track budgets, and identify potential risks for assigned programs
• Serve as a key operational contact for local partners and vendors
• Help ensure experiences are engaging, on-brand, memorable, and operationally sound
• Track performance metrics including attendance, engagement, satisfaction, and cost efficiency
• Capture feedback and insights to support continuous improvement
• Use digital tools (PowerBi, Asana), automation, and AI-enabled systems to streamline planning, reporting, communications, and data analysis
• Contribute to evolving team processes, templates, and toolkits to improve consistency and scalability

AI & Digital Workflow Capabilities
This role is expected to work confidently with modern digital tools and emerging AI capabilities to improve event delivery and insights. This includes:

• Using AI-assisted tools to support project planning, timelines, and task management
• Leveraging AI for attendee insights, post-event analysis, and reporting summaries
• Supporting content and messaging development through AI-enabled drafting and refinement tools
• Streamlining communications, vendor coordination, and documentation workflows
• Identifying opportunities to automate repetitive tasks and improve data accuracy
• Staying informed on emerging event technology and AI-driven experience enhancements

About the team 
Our Global Marketing and Events team is responsible for designing and delivering extraordinary, high impact event and marketing experiences that elevate our brand, build meaningful connections, and drive measurable business growth through creativity, operational excellence, strategic partnership, and customer obsession. By joining our team, you will be part of exciting work across the Moody’s business, working across multiple divisions, primarily focused on ANZ but often across APAC too. 

Moody’s is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender expression, gender identity or any other characteristic protected by law.

Candidates for Moody's Corporation may be asked to disclose securities holdings pursuant to Moody’s Policy for Securities Trading and the requirements of the position. Employment is contingent upon compliance with the Policy, including remediation of positions in those holdings as necessary.