Conference and Sponsorship Lead
Salary
FTE ÂŁ28,000 per annum plus benefits
Date Ending
March 30, 2024
Contract: 1 year Fixed term with a view to going permanent
Hours: Fulltime at 37 hours per week, 52 weeks per year
Location: Hybrid working consisting of remote working, with flexibility to attend conferences and events as required and up to 2 days per week in our Head Office based in Stevenage, Hertfordshire.
This is an exciting opportunity for someone who wants to broaden and build on their experience in conferences and events to join a friendly team. The role would suit anyone who has worked as part of an in-house events or conference team, or someone with events sales experience.
In this role you will lead a variety of conferences and events from concept to completion. You will have responsibility of all aspects of these events, from co-ordinating logistics, supplier and venue management, speaker liaison and delegate invitations for both on-site and virtual delivery. In addition to managing your own portfolio of conferences and events, there will be an opportunity to support the growth of the wider events programme.
You will also lead on the sponsorship programme, with income targets that support the ongoing financial sustainability of the wider events programme. The post holder will build relationships with existing suppliers whilst developing new relationships and markets.
This role will suit an individual with 2-3 years of conference and events experience and/or exhibition sales. You will have meticulous organisational and planning skills to ensure you are able to manage and coordinate multiple stakeholders, across multiple events. You will need to be extremely proactive, adaptable, professional, and personable. Most of all, you will bring energy and passion to the role and be a team player to deliver outstanding conferences.
If you thrive within a fast-moving environment and want to join a supportive team where you can develop and learn new skills, we would love to hear from you.
Our âworking from anywhereâ approach provides colleagues the opportunity to work flexibly in line with their role requirements. This consists of remote working, flexibility to attend events, and up to 2 days per week in our Head Office in Stevenage, Hertfordshire. The ability to reach different locations by car will be essential for this role, and so a full driving licence and appropriate car insurance will be required. As there is a permanent home working element to this role, you will need to ensure you are equipped for home working.
Benefits: a generous employer pension contribution, 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays (rising to 31 days after five-years) or the equivalent paid for Term Time employees, family-friendly policies, hybrid working, paid mileage, a cycle to work scheme, onsite charging points for electric vehicles, access to mental health and wellbeing support, company performance bonus, professional development opportunities, benefit schemes for discounts and cashback offers, and more.
How to apply Would you like to know more information about this opportunity? If so, further information can be found in the job outline. You can also contact Gabi Gutteridge who would be happy to chat to you on 07443 811346
To apply, email hfl.recruitment@hertsforlearning.co.uk with a detailed CV along with a cover letter to include responses to the following questions:
- Provide an example of when you have worked on multiple events or conferences detailing the processes, audience size and how you supported content development.
- Please provide an example of a digital delivery platforms you worked with or are familiar with, detailing how this platform supported you in your conference or event, how you measured if this was the right platform to use and what level of technical proficiency did you achieve using this platform.
- Please tell us about your experience of relationship management and where you have managed a sales How did you overcome any issues with the decision to buy?
As part of our move towards eradicating unconscious bias within the recruitment process, we will be anonymising your forms.
For recruitment queries, our Central Recruitment Team can also be contacted on the hfl.recruitment email address above. We would love to hear from you.
This job advert may close as soon as sufficient applications have been received. We reserve the right to interview before the closing and interview date should we feel able to appoint an appropriate candidate. To make sure you donât miss out on this great opportunity, please submit your application as soon as you can.
We are committed towards becoming an anti-racist organisation, and our recruitment statement is set out below in support of this.
HFL is committed to being an equal opportunities employer. We insist on the equal treatment of all current and prospective colleagues and will never condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership.
HFL is also equally committed to becoming an anti-racist organisation and we encourage you to view our Anti-racist position statement which gives clarity on our anti-racist stance. In our relentless efforts to be an anti-racist organisation, we recognise the negative impacts of under representation and lack of diversity in our organisation, our education system and in all aspects of our society. Therefore, for recruitment into any HFL post, where we have 2 or more candidates of equal merit, candidates with protected characteristics will be given advantage over candidates without such characteristics. This is sometimes referred to as a âtie-breakerâ and is referred to as âpositive actionâ in the Equality Act 2010.
To help us meet our high standards and aspirations of a fully diverse and inclusive workplace, we strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from all backgrounds to apply and to join us.
Please note that if you are invited to interview, we will expect you to be prepared to discuss unconscious bias with us; we find these conversations more than any others give us all a good idea of what working together will be like.
