Head of Events – HFL Education
Salary
Band 6 FTE £45,000 - £50,000 per annum
Date Ending
October 14, 2022
Contract: Permanent
Hours: fulltime at 37 hours per week
Salary: Band 6 FTE £45,000 – £50,000 per annum
Location: Hybrid working consisting of a mix of remote working, event venues as needed, and a minimum of 2 days per week at our Head Office in Stevenage, Hertfordshire.
Are you passionate about driving change and transforming events, which impact children’s education across the UK?
Are you looking to build upon your conference and event leadership expertise to bring about lasting change?
We are looking for a forward-looking, passionate leader who will work with the Operations and Technology Team (OAT) to take HFL Education events to the next level. In this role you will review our events operations and devise a new strategy to refresh some of our long-standing ways-of-working. You will be responsible for the events strategy, events team execution, and oversight of all aspects of events delivery, both in-person and digital. You will lead a team of twelve and will work closely with senior leadership and teams across multiple functions within HFL Education. You would have a profound level of passion for the delivery of exceptional customer experiences.
You will have a particular focus on the commercial development, scalable growth and strategic importance of our national conference programme to help raise the profile of HFL Education within the education sector.
If you are passionate about delivering outstanding customer experiences at every touchpoint, then you can add value at HFL Education.
Our ‘working from anywhere’ approach provides colleagues the opportunity to work flexibly in line with their role requirements. This consists of remote working and a minimum 2 days per week in our Head Office in Stevenage, Hertfordshire, alongside work based in conference or event locations as needed. 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, life assurance, 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 sponsorship opportunities, benefit schemes for discounts and cashback offers, and more.
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 Reem Al Rasheed, our Operations and Technology Director via email through lauren.phipps@hfleducation.org
How to Apply To apply, email Ben@brandrecruitment.co.uk at Brand Recruitment with an up-to-date CV along with a cover letter to include responses to the following questions:
- Please give us an example about a time when you led your team through a change.
- Please describe the most significant challenges you faced leading an event/conference and how you overcame it.
As part of our move towards eradicating unconscious bias within the recruitment process, we will be anonymising your forms.
Brand Recruitment will be managing the recruitment process for this role so please feel free to contact Ben@brandrecruitment.co.uk with any queries.
We would love to hear from you.
This job advert may close as soon as sufficient applications have been received. To make sure you don’t miss out on this great opportunity, please submit your application as soon as you can.
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