Posted May 20, 2011 Drum Corps International seeks a qualified full-time Travel & Meetings Manager for its Indianapolis headquarters. The Travel & Meetings Manager works closely with DCI's travel agent partner to manage travel logistics for approximately 400 corporate travelers as well as serving as the office contact for questions and emergencies for those travelers. The position coordinates DCI's business meetings, annual meetings, and social events ranging from 10-400 attendees. In doing so, this individual serves as the primary contact for hotel and venue staffs to ensure all logistical aspects of meetings, events and trade shows are solidified. The Travel & Meetings Manager is required to monitor travel budgets and reports travel, hotel, and special event expenses to senior management.
Drum Corps International – Corporate Overview: Drum Corps International, Inc. (DCI) has operated for more than 35 years as a non-profit sanctioning association and event promotions organization focused on servicing the world's most elite and exclusive marching musical organizations — commonly known as competitive drum and bugle corps. The worldwide popularity and influence of Drum Corps International and its member organizations continues to grow. As a youth activity, the world of competitive drum and bugle corps is an intense, choreographed musical experience staged on football stadium fields by students achieving high levels of excellence in performance. Through the drum and bugle corps experience, young people develop life skills including self-discipline, teamwork and leadership. Drum Corps International contracts more than 100 tour events throughout North America and directly produces several Premier Events as part of an eight-week, summer-long tour culminating with the annual World Championships, held in August each year. The performers engaged in the drum and bugle corps experience are both musicians and athletes, and their performances rival the levels of excellence achieved by Olympians. Through their achievements in marching music, Drum Corps International participants are considered to be "the standard of excellence" for high school and college marching bands throughout the United States, Europe, Asia and South Africa. Drum Corps International is a non-profit corporation, as specified under IRS 501(c)(3) and is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE).
Drum Corps International – Corporate Overview: Drum Corps International, Inc. (DCI) has operated for more than 35 years as a non-profit sanctioning association and event promotions organization focused on servicing the world's most elite and exclusive marching musical organizations — commonly known as competitive drum and bugle corps. The worldwide popularity and influence of Drum Corps International and its member organizations continues to grow. As a youth activity, the world of competitive drum and bugle corps is an intense, choreographed musical experience staged on football stadium fields by students achieving high levels of excellence in performance. Through the drum and bugle corps experience, young people develop life skills including self-discipline, teamwork and leadership. Drum Corps International contracts more than 100 tour events throughout North America and directly produces several Premier Events as part of an eight-week, summer-long tour culminating with the annual World Championships, held in August each year. The performers engaged in the drum and bugle corps experience are both musicians and athletes, and their performances rival the levels of excellence achieved by Olympians. Through their achievements in marching music, Drum Corps International participants are considered to be "the standard of excellence" for high school and college marching bands throughout the United States, Europe, Asia and South Africa. Drum Corps International is a non-profit corporation, as specified under IRS 501(c)(3) and is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE).