Events Manager

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.