Senior Conference and Events Manager

Location: Brighton - City Campus

Are you ready to lead a team delivering university events and conference activity? Are you a skilled communicator with the ability to develop positive working relationships and influence key stakeholders, and can you retain the bigger picture whilst also ensuring attention to detail? If so, then this could be the perfect role for you! 

We are seeking an experienced and highly motivated Conference and Events professional to lead the university’s conference and event services, ranging from high profile events such as Graduation to summer language school use of our venues. You will have significant management experience of planning and delivering successful events/conferences with a focus on ensuring excellent customer experiences. You will have the ability to prioritise the work of your team to manage time pressured projects and conflicting deadlines, supporting their development and wellbeing. 

The role will enable you to take a lead in formulating the overall conference and events strategy, as well as annual sales and marketing plans. Your focus will be on delivering high quality events and on the expansion of commercial and event services, ensuring they provide value for money and contribute financially to income targets.  

We’d also expect the usual experience in conference and event management such as an in-depth knowledge and understanding of budgetary management and of compliance and its application to conference and event activity, such as Health & Safety, GDPR, safeguarding, disability discrimination act.  

 What We Offer:

• Competitive salary, contributory pension schemes, and generous annual leave entitlement.
• Collaborative culture valuing innovation, customer focus, and teamwork.
• Supportive environment with opportunities for professional development.
• Range of benefits, including agile working arrangements.

The role will require occasional evening and weekend working to meet event / business requirements.

Further details:

• Job Description

The University is committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive environment for all staff regardless of age, disability, family or caring responsibilities, gender identity, marital status, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief (including non-belief), sex and sexual orientation. We embrace equality and diversity in our working, learning, research and teaching environment and are committed to maintaining a supportive and inclusive community. We particularly encourage applicants from Minority Ethnic backgrounds because the University is under-represented by Minority Ethnic staff.

For the vast majority of our roles, we operate an agile working system with time split between working on campus and at the employee's home. It is the University's expectation that home working will take place within the UK.

Further information about working for us, as well as the wide range of benefits we offer, can be found in the working with us section of our vacancies page.

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