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.