Assistant Events Manager, OxfordAQA

2 weeks ago

Oxford, United Kingdom Oxford University Press Full time
We are the world's largest university press. We have both a worldwide reach and a personal understanding of local needs, partnering on the ground to adapt publications and resources to meet the individual needs of communities, societies, and countries. We partner with researchers, educators, and technology partners to stay ahead of the changing ways people around the world are accessing and sharing knowledge. With a presence in more than 50 countries and millions of customers around the world, an idea launched at OUP can have global impact.

OxfordAQA is the international exam board that puts fairness first, giving every student the best chance to show what they can do. We are a partnership between Oxford University Press (a department of the University of Oxford) and AQA, the UK's largest provider of GCSEs and A-levels. We share the same values and aspirations as all great schools and teachers and we're proud that many schools see us as their partners, not just their exam board. Find out more here.

About the Role

As our new Assistant Events Manager, you will be responsible for supporting the coordination and delivery of a varied portfolio of high-quality international events for OxfordAQA, including promotional launch events, subject-specific in-person workshops and professional development webinars, working closely with the Events Manager.

This role sits in the OxfordAQA marketing team and supports the project management of each event in line with marketing and sales strategies, ensuring smooth running and excellent content. This will involve liaising with internal and external stakeholders, contributing to event planning, analysing and reporting event data and feedback, monitoring budgets and ensuring maximum ROI through the appropriate planning, promotion and follow-up of each event.

A typical day in this role might include a selection of the following: webinar hosting/moderation, working with an event trainer to ensure a successful visa application, arranging international travel, meeting with colleagues and stakeholders to plan future events, analysing and interpreting data and feedback from past events ready for presentation to stakeholders and participating in team meetings.

Please see the attached job description for a full list of duties and responsibilities.

We operate a hybrid working policy that requires a minimum of 2 days per week in the Oxford office.

About You

Essential:
  • Excellent administrative and organisation skills with good spoken and written English and robust proofreading abilities
  • Experience of dealing with customers and excellent communication manner and presentation skills.
  • Able to prioritise a varied workload and to work on own initiative
  • Able to work collaboratively and foster positive working relationships
  • A proactive team player, able to collaborate with a wide variety people from across the globe.
  • Meticulous attention to detail with a flair for data and systems
  • Creative and innovative, with an eye for branding and design
  • In-depth knowledge of manipulating data using Microsoft Excel

Desirable:
  • Previous experience of working in an events, sales or marketing role
  • Experience and understanding of the international education market.
  • Previous experience using a webinar delivery platform (e.g. Zoom or BigMarker)
  • Previous experience using an enterprise-grade email marketing platform (e.g. DotDigital or SendGrid)
  • Previous experience with Canva, video editing and/or web content management software
  • Previous experience of using Microsoft Power BI
Benefits

We care about work/life balance here at OUP. With this in mind we offer 25 days' holiday that rises with service, plus bank holidays and Christmas closure (3-days) and a 35-hour working week. We are open to discussing flexibility in respect to working patterns, dependent on role. We also have a great variety of active employee networks and societies.

We help make your money go further by contributing to your pension up to 12%, offering loans and savings schemes through our partnership with Salary Finance, in addition to travel to work schemes and access to a wide range of local discounts.

Please see our Rewards and Recognition page for more information.

Queries

Please contact grace.mcfadyen@oup.com with any queries relating to this role.

We are committed to supporting diversity in our workforce, and ensuring an inclusive environment where all individuals can thrive. We seek to employ a workforce representative of the markets that we serve and encourage applications from all.

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