Job Description
Events Coordinator
International Membership Body
Permanent
Salary £30K – £34K
Start date - ASAP
Our client a well-recognised professional membership body with a membership body based in the UK and internationally, is currently recruiting for an Events Coordinator. The client, a membership organisation, is dedicated to ensuring that their membership body is informed, engaged and connected. They provide policy insight, share ideas and innovation, host events and roundtable discussions and conduct original research. They have a membership across the UK, Ireland, Australia and beyond, and plan to expand that membership globally.
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The Role of the Events Coordinator
The Events Coordinator develops and delivers their extensive events programme to support their members around the world and enhance engagement with members across their core countries.
Reporting to the Head of Engagement, this position focuses on the delivery of a variety of events, ranging in scale and location. These include in-person and online events, webinars, conferences, workshops, training sessions, awards ceremonies and more with the number of attendees ranging from smaller, more intimate discussions to larger scale events with up to several hundred attendees.
Responsibilities
Work with the Head of Engagement to design annual event programmes that speak to the members needs and interests.
To lead on all aspects of internal and external event planning and delivery including:
Drafting attendee invitations, speaker briefings and blogs.
Liaising with speakers and attendees
Booking and liaising with venues
Working with the Corporate Communications Manager to plan and deliver event marketing and communications, and upload website content for the website and social channels
Managing event budgets
Collecting event feedback and helping them to understand how they can continually improve the event programme and delivery.
Preparing event resource packs which highlight the breadth of the organisation’s resources.
Working with the Training Coordinator to support the delivery of training courses.
Experience and expertise
Experienced events organiser with excellent event management and administrative skills, with a minimum of 3 years’ experience in a trade association, professional body or membership body.
Experience of working collaboratively in a multi-disciplinary organisation.
Experience in developing and delivering marketing campaigns to raise awareness of events
Experience of working with and managing external partners and sponsors.
Excellent IT skills including experience with customer databases, email marketing tools, remote learning tools and event platforms, and ability to use programs such as Eventbrite, Typeform and SurveyMonkey for events management and feedback
Strong communication skills - written, face to face, virtually and on the phone
Excellent time management and organisational skills
Excellent record keeping and budget management capabilities
Conversant with social media platforms both for communication and for monitoring
Desirable:
Awards and judging process administration experience
Experience of working within a local authority
To apply to the role of Events Coordinator please send your CV.
Due to the volume of applications we are only able to contact successful applicants. Therefore if you have not heard from us within 10 working days please deem your application as unsuccessful on this occasion.
Membership Bespoke is acting as a recruitment business in relation to this role. Membership Bespoke positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity.
Membership Bespoke is the most experienced membership-focused recruitment firm in the UK, with 10+ years of experience delivering tailored permanent, temporary, interim, and Executive Search recruitment solutions to Trade Associations, Regulatory Bodies, Political Parties, and Professional Bodies.