Key points
Contract Type: Full-time, Permanent contract
Working Pattern: Monday to Friday (with flexible start/finish times between 8 am–10 am and 5 pm–7 pm).
Hybrid pattern: 4 days in the office, 1 day work from home.
Hours: 40 hours per week.
Overview
At Zaha Hadid Architects, we are seeking a Programme Assistant to join our London team on a permanent contract. The purpose of the role is to help coordinate and organise internal and external events including building tours, networking events, internal team events, gallery events, and external engagements for ZHA staff.
Main responsibilities
- Assist the Senior Programme Coordinator with company-wide programme planning
- Support internal communications, including compiling internal newsletters and updating the office wide landing page
- Help coordinate regular industry events, including but not limited to company participation in New London Architecture, London Festival of Architecture, and Clerkenwell Design Week
- Manage logistics for events, including venue research, vendor coordination, catering arrangements, and equipment setup
- Support coordination and hosting of internal and office-wide events, including organising staff attendance to award ceremonies
- Assist with the management of invitation lists, RSVPs, and supplier lists
- Contribute to the coordination of our CSR initiatives and opportunities
- Assist with budget tracking and processing event invoices
Skills Required
- Previous experience in events coordination
- Proficient knowledge of Microsoft Office, including Excel
Advantageous:- Knowledge of the architecture industry, and contemporary culture within art, design and architecture
- Experience with Microsoft SharePoint
Personal skills
- Highly organised and methodical in a busy, fast-paced environment
- Excellent written and spoken communication skills
- Confident team player, able to work collaboratively and independently
- Exceptional attention to detail
- Resourceful problem solver
- Reliable and able to manage multiple deadlines
- Approachable and sociable, comfortable interacting with colleagues and external guests
- Strong relationship-building skills at all levels, internally and externally
About us
Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) redefined architecture for the 21st century with a repertoire of projects that have captured imaginations across the globe. Creating buildings uniquely tailored to the communities they serve, ZHA has been awarded the highest honours from professional and academic institutions worldwide. Founded by Zaha Hadid in 1979, ZHA is one of the world’s most consistently inventive architectural studios—and has been for four decades. These decades of pioneering research are inscribed within our architecture to become more spatially inventive, more structurally efficient, more technologically advanced, and more environmentally considerate with every new design. Combining innovative architectural solutions with ecologically sound materials and sustainable construction practices, we do not look at the disparate parts, but work to understand them as a whole to meet the aspirations of each new generation. As an employee-owned business, we reinvest all profits back into our people and our company; continually enhancing our multidisciplinary research to address the challenges impacting communities around the world.
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