What's the job?
Are you a highly-organised, motivated individual with a passion for events and a strong desire to positively contribute to the success of your team? In this role, you will join our extremely busy Marketing & Events team and will assist with the planning, organisation and delivery of all commercial and student events, including exhibitor liaison and logistics.
We are looking for a bright, determined, high-energy candidate who is self-motivated, proactive, organised, happy to roll their sleeves up and able to work under pressure to meet deadlines for multiple projects in a fast-paced environment.
Responsibilities include (but are not limited to):
- Supporting the team with the successful planning, organisation, delivery and evaluation of our postgraduate student recruitment and business to business events both online and offline.
- Liaising and building relationships with both customers and external suppliers.
- Negotiating with vendors and suppliers.
- Exhibitor liaison, including but not limited to responding to queries, tracking bookings, collating exhibitor requirements and post-event feedback, troubleshooting, and generally ensuring we maintain excellent customer service.
- Problem-solving during events, ensuring we maintain quality event delivery.
- Event packing and organisation.
- Administrative duties such as booking travel & hotels.
- Building webpages and emails in our CMS system.
Due to the nature of this role, whilst we offer hybrid working, the successful applicant will be required to work in the office regularly to fulfil tasks relating to preparation both pre and post events.
Person Specification:
Essential:
- Strong time-management, organisational and administrative skills, with a keen eye for detail.
- Ability to multitask, prioritise workload and meet multiple deadlines.
- Strong communication, teamwork and negotiation skills.
- Problem-solving skills, diplomacy, and a flexible approach.
- Plenty of enthusiasm and creativity with the ability to work on own initiative.
- Personable, presentable and articulate.
- Good IT skills including Microsoft Outlook, Word and Excel.
- Willingness to work flexibly and out of hours as required.
Nature of work will require occasional travel & overnight stays.
Desirable:
- Recent qualification(s) in, or experience of, events management.
- Experience of working in the Higher Education sector.
- Educated to degree level.
Who are we?
FindAUniversity is a growing and dynamic web company specialising in marketing higher education. We combine our reputation for excellent customer service and innovation with an integrated approach to delivering effective student recruitment campaigns. We're very proud of what we do - helping many thousands of students find their perfect postgraduate degree. Our vision is to develop our platforms to build an engaged online community, whilst continuing to grow our portfolio of high-profile B2C study fairs and B2B events.
We are part of Keystone Education Group, a leading Ed-tech brand within Higher Education.
Why work for us?
- Collaborative, supportive, fun and flexible best describes us. You will be joining a strong and growing sales team who are passionate about what they do within a dynamic company.
- We genuinely care about each other, our customers and the wider company members.
- We support each other through our cross-team training programme, ongoing mentorship and coaching, and weekly team-wide learning and development workshops.
- We want to help solve our customers’ problems and we want to continue to hold our reputation as providing top class customer service.
- We work hard and love celebrating our achievements!
Where do we live?
We offer hybrid working arrangements, with the ability to work from home and/or the office.
We live in a stunning three-floor warehouse conversion in the heart of Sheffield’s Cultural Industries Quarter. Easy to get to and surrounded by some of Sheffield's best independent shops, cafes and bars.
Company benefits:
- Company pension scheme.
- 23 days annual leave PLUS one week shut down at Christmas/New Year AND Bank Holidays (pro rata for part time employees)
- Hybrid working.
- Team social budget
- Cycle to work scheme with secure private parking and shower facilities.
- Private courtyard and BBQ area.
- City centre location
- Employee assistance programme (https://www.westfieldhealth.com/)
- Retailer discounts from thousands of online retailers
- Wellbeing events such as Mindfulness and wellness ‘out and about’ hour
- Employee referral scheme
- Charity Volunteer Day
- Charity fund matching
- Corporate flu vaccine programme
Salary
£20,000 - £25,000 per year (dependant on experience)
Application deadline: Friday, 31 March 2023.
What next?
If you're interested in coming to work with us, please send your CV and a covering letter explaining why this is the job for you and how you meet our person specification. Please also state your salary expectations. Applications without a covering letter may not be considered.
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