Executive Education and Events Manager

About the Role
This role is part of the Professional Services team within the Centre for Commercial Law Studies (CCLS) and supports the delivery and development of Executive Education programmes and events of strategic importance to CCLS. The postholder will manage operational aspects, including planning, coordination, and project management, to help raise the Centre’s internal and external profile.

Working closely with academic colleagues, professional staff across Queen Mary University of London (QMUL), and external partners, the postholder will ensure that programmes and events are delivered to a high standard and aligned with strategic goals.

The role includes line management of the CCLS Events Administrator, ensuring effective support for all Executive Education activities. The postholder will coordinate with academic and professional teams to deliver events on time and within budget.

They will also support business development by ensuring Executive Education courses are effectively scoped, costed, marketed, and managed from inception to delivery, while developing KPIs and gathering feedback to support continuous improvement.

Project management responsibilities include overseeing the full lifecycle of each event or course, including planning, logistics, stakeholder communication, risk management, and delivery, while acting as the main contact for internal and external partners.

The postholder will help shape and implement strategies to expand engagement with CCLS’s Executive Education offerings, in line with Queen Mary’s broader priorities around professional learning, global reach, and industry collaboration.

About You
You will hold a degree and be a skilled events and marketing professional with substantial experience in Higher Education. You should have a strong track record in delivering complex events and education programmes, managing budgets, coordinating teams, and engaging stakeholders. Experience in marketing, digital tools, and supporting VLE platforms is essential. You will be organised, adaptable, and comfortable working across all levels of a large institution.

About the School/Department
CCLS is a globally recognised centre for postgraduate legal education, attracting around 1,000 students from over 80 countries. The Department of Law, which focuses on the rule of law and civil society, teaches more than 800 undergraduates. Together, the departments are supported by around 60 professional services staff who deliver teaching and research priorities.

About Queen Mary
At Queen Mary University of London, we believe that a diversity of ideas helps us achieve the previously unthinkable.

Throughout our history, we’ve fostered social justice and improved lives through academic excellence. And we continue to live and breathe this spirit today, not because it’s simply ‘the right thing to do’ but for what it helps us achieve and the intellectual brilliance it delivers.

We continue to embrace diversity of thought and opinion in everything we do, in the belief that when views collide, disciplines interact, and perspectives intersect, truly original thought takes form.

Benefits
We offer competitive salaries, access to a generous pension scheme, 30 days’ leave per annum (pro-rata for part-time/fixed-term), a season ticket loan scheme and access to a comprehensive range of personal and professional development opportunities. In addition, we offer a range of work life balance and family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, and campus facilities.

Queen Mary’s commitment to our diverse and inclusive community is embedded in our appointments processes. Reasonable adjustments will be made at each stage of the recruitment process for any candidate with a disability. We are open to considering applications from candidates wishing to work flexibly.

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