About this role
The Faculty of Education, Health and Human Sciences (FEHHS) is looking for an enthusiastic Senior Events and Marketing Officer (maternity cover).
The role-holder will be responsible for the management of events, including the planning, delivery, evaluation, and reporting of, held within the faculty which include undergraduate and postgraduate open days, offer-holder days as well as student success and other faculty events.
Bringing experience of running successful event, you'll need strong organisational and project management skills, a creative flair for delivering impactful events and a desire to offer excellent customer service. With a keen eye for detail, you will be responsible for shaping and delivering high-quality events. You will need to be able to plan and promote events and deal with all aspects of event administration from logistics (such as floor plans and catering) to event ‘dressing’, from staffing to producing promotional materials and documentation. As well as leading on planning, you will also be a highly visible and proactive lead - able to take charge, direct others and problem-solve on your feet.
You should possess excellent communication and interpersonal skills and will develop close working relationships with the university’s Marketing and External Relations Directorate (MER) and staff across FEHHS. You will have experience of working successfully in an events environment, ideally in a higher education setting, and will have great people skills and know how to provide excellent customer service as well as being a supportive colleague and team player.
The role also requires a high level of flexibility, the ability to cover events (which may be out-of-normal hours or at weekends) across all three campuses, experience of anticipating problems and identifying solutions, the skills to analyse data, the ability to manage your own workload and projects, and a proactive 'can-do' outlook.
This is a fixed term contract for maternity cover until July 2026.
For an informal discussion about the post please contact Louise Eaden, Head of Business Operations, on [email protected]
Should you have any queries please contact the People Directorate Team on [email protected]
The university is a brilliant place to work. We aim to become the top modern university in the UK by 2030 and our people are truly at the heart of what we want to achieve. We offer a great set of benefits including an excellent pension scheme, generous holiday entitlement, flexible working options including hybrid working and a genuine commitment to development.
We are looking for people who can help us achieve our Strategic Plan, through the values we expect for our whole university community, of being Inclusive, Collaborative and Impactful.
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