Events Manager required for a 1 year Maternity cover to be responsible for overseeing the events team, ensuring that all events are viable and executed to a high standard; organising high profile and large scale events.
Key responsibilities:
Reporting to the Head of Events, the role responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:
Team Management
- Leading and motivating the events team to deliver high quality events and experiences for the Membership.
- Monitoring and managing the teams workload.
- Dealing with any sickness, absences, HR issues and holidays within the team.
- Running PDR meetings throughout the year to keep the team on top of their goals.
- Organising training for the team.
- Running team meetings to update the team on all events coming up.
- Ultimately responsible for GDPR for events including the inbox and GDrive.
Budgets
- Responsible for the annual events budgets/codes which are set at the start of each financial year.
- Final budget sign off on shows and events.
- Ensuring that the team are putting on profit making events.
Events
- Shaping any new event ideas that come in.
- Overseeing all events, across the year.
- Future planning to ensure a range of events are being offered across the membership.
Comms
- Running events training for new Leaders.
- Updating Regionals on any system changes, embargos, new events or anything else that would need communicating to all Leaders.
- Dealing with any Leader or Member complaints that may be escalated to Managers level.
- Having a presence at pre term to engage with Leaders. Once a year or more, running round robin sessions. Occasionally presenting to all leaders when necessary.
- Communicating events to Heads of departments whose teams may be affected.
- Running event promotion meetings to ensure the wider team are promoting events as necessary.
The successful candidate will have had experience working in a busy environment. Experience of event or project management is essential.
Relevant skills will include:
- Ability to manage a team
- Strong organisational capability and process management.
- Ability to prioritise, working well under pressure.
- Ability to create and oversee budgets.
- Exceptional attention to detail and accuracy.
- Strong team player.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Adaptable and flexible.
Monday to Friday, 9am-5:30pm.