Event Service Manager

Location: Brighton - City Campus

Are you ready to utilise your knowledge and experience in event management to operationally lead a small team managing the University's diverse internal and external event programme? Do you have the experience to be able to deliver our flagship events such as graduation and our graduate shows and to support the acquisition of large international conferences, working in partnership with our academic community? If so, then this is the ideal role for you. 

You’ll be a great communicator, quickly able to understand the needs of potential clients, stakeholders, colleagues, internal partners, and external customers. You will need to be able to build and maintain strong relationships with internal departments to support operational delivery.   

The role will require you to manage event budgets, and you will have experience of working in a sales environment and working towards financial targets.  

You’ll be conversant with health and safety compliance and of effectively pivoting the resources within your team to meet business priorities and you’ll thrive on overcoming and troubleshooting obstacles in the planning and operations of large and small-scale events to ensure successful outcomes.  

 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. We welcome applications from job sharers.

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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