Events Manager
- Employer
- CHM
- Location
- London SW13
- Salary
- £38,119 per annum
- Closing date
- 21 May 2024
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- Function
- Event Logistics, Event Marketing, Event Operations, Event Production, Event Project Management, Event Research, Event Sales, Senior Management
- Sector
- Event Management, Charity
- Hours
- Full Time
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Job Role
- Event Manager
- Seniority
- Manager
Job Details
Events Manager
Location: London SW13 9WT
Contract: Permanent
Salary: £38,119 per annum
This is a full time role working 5 days out of 7 including weekends and bank holidays.
Our client is looking for an Events Manager to lead and grow their corporate and private events business at their Wetland Centre. You will lead this department to be a successful, profitable operation, consistently delivering events at the highest standards for our clients.
You will maximise revenue through existing and new opportunities, building the organisation's reputation with a commercial focus. You will lead the events team and collaborate with others across the charity and externally, in delivering the following:
- Corporate hire - meetings, networking events
- Corporate days – team building, work parties on reserve & grounds
- Private events - birthday parties, wakes, memorials
- Venue hire
- Networking events for like-minded organisations
- Partnership/marketing events
The Centre has a key role to realise their strategy and the new Events Manager will make an important contribution to their goals.
About You
To join as Events Manager, you will bring:
- Extensive experience in creating new business and delivery in private events, corporate hire and functions
- Successful leadership qualities of leading high performing teams to deliver consistent, high-quality events for our clients
- Robust commercial acumen to ensure the organisation is running a profitable events business their Wetland Centre
- Experience of developing collaborative partnerships with clients where a mutually beneficial relationship can support the aims of the organisation
The ideal candidate will have a good understanding of planning and delivering private events, functions and corporate hire. They will have sound business acumen with a commercial mindset whilst maintaining a good eye for detail in the standards and service we deliver across the business.
The organisation would welcome applications from the commercial events sector, hospitality, or the wider service industry.
About the organisation
This organisation is on a mission to restore the super-powered ecosystems we call wetlands. There’s never been a more important moment for their work, and they’ve got some phenomenal people on the case.
Whether they’re taking a new visitor under their wing, or conducting ground-breaking research further afield, the team are second to none. And there’s nothing they love more than watching them soar.
Whatever you do here, you’ll be helping to restore wetlands and unlock their power. So, the only question left is, what role will you play?
Why you’ll love working for the organisation
- Wake up every day knowing your work is helping to restore wetlands, and our world
- Be surrounded and inspired by a team of passionate, dedicated people
- 33 days annual leave (which goes up to 38 days after 5 years of service) – this includes bank holidays and you have flexibility to take those days whenever you want
- Free entry to all wetland centres, including your family
- Free car parking and secure bike storage areas
- Colleague discount on shopping and memberships
- Cycle to work scheme
- Contributory pension scheme
- Life Assurance of three times your salary, for peace of mind for your loved ones
- Independent personal, workplace and financial advice from Care first
Closing date: 21st May 2024
Interested?
To apply, please click the apply button. You will be taken to a simple CHM Recruit form where you can find out more information and complete your application by following the instructions.
The charity is an equal opportunities employer and all applications will be considered solely on merit.
No agencies please.
Company
CHM Recruit is an employer-focused recruitment agency offering fixed priced online recruitment. It specialises in the charity, care, health and NGO sectors as well as in banking, business services and education. CHM Recruit is based in Milton Keynes and is a division of Coach House Media, an advertising agency established in 1987.
CHM Recruit specialises in marketing vacancies across a range of leading job boards. Recruiters choose from the best national job boards, the job board affiliated with their local press and have a choice of leading specialist job boards. This coverage, allied to social media sites, affiliate sites and job search engines, means that more than 95% of those looking for a specific job will find CHM marketed vacancies.
Haymarket job boards used by CHM Recruit include Brand Republic Jobs, PM Jobs, Third Sector Jobs, Horticulture Jobs, Ends Job Search and Event Job Search.
CHM Recruit works on the basis on a fixed fee, billed every month and claims significant savings over traditional forms of recruitment advertising. Recruiters can send details of vacancies with no obligation and CHM Recruit will recommend the best packages from their extensive stable of job boards. The agency will also advise on copy and tailor applications to fit with the employer’s preferred method.
During the life of the vacancy, CHM Recruit will continue to manage the listing, monitor and report stats and support applicants.
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