Events & Commercial Administrator

1 week ago

West Midlands, United Kingdom CAREER DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE Full time

Role title: Events & Commercial Administrator
Location: Office with flexible home working. Travel across the UK as required.
Reports to: Events and Commercial Manger.
Primary role function: To provide administrative support for the CDI’S Events and Commercial team. Including providing support for the effective delivery of both online and in person events and conferences. To deliver the supporting activities for the CDI’s commercial services, including completion of booking forms, invoicing, and liaising with other teams for delivery of contracted activities.

Terms and remuneration: Part-time – 16 hours a week over 3 or 4 days. 1 year contract.
Salary £9,450 p.a. (£23,625 FTE) plus benefits.

About the CDI:
The Career Development Institute (CDI) is the UK’s professional body for the career development sector with around 5,000 members. Our purpose is to set standards, advocate for and promote high quality career development for all.
Our members help people define their career goals, identify their strengths and development needs and choose the right pathway to gain the skills they need to progress. The cumulative effect of these millions of careers interventions each year helps address social and economic issues such as social mobility, workforce skills shortages and productivity challenges in the economy.
Membership of the CDI brings a variety of benefits, including gaining qualifications, a wide range of continuous professional development (CPD), key resources to support practice and policy, the latest sector news and access to communities of professionals.
Our new website gives us much greater capability to engage audiences by creating engaging content and raising the profile of our campaigns, to meet our twin objectives of supporting our members and championing the profession.
We are committed to enabling everyone working at the CDI, in the profession and among clients to thrive. We therefore encourage diversity within the sector and would particularly welcome applications from individuals from under-represented communities – see ‘Working for the CDI’ at the end of this advert for more details along with the benefits we offer.

Role summary:
The Events and Commercial Administrator will have two core areas of responsibility:
This role is an administrative function to support key areas of the CDI’s Events and Commercial
team, including major events and commercial partners. The role will report into the Events and
Commercial Manager and work closely with the Events and Commercial Executive.

Key accountabilities
Events: The role will provide support for the major events the CDI runs throughout the year. This work will be lighter for much of the year then more concentrated as we near major events. Support in-person events by sourcing and liaising with venues, sourcing event decoration/materials, arranging deliveries to the venue and helping with set-up on the day.
Processing attendee bookings, dietary requirements and accommodation arrangements as needed. Support the set-up of online events (training will be provided).

  • Setup and process ticket sales on the booking system. Handling booking queries. 
  • Arrange moderators for sessions at key events and attending the event to provide on-the day support.
  • Engage with speakers to collect their details and presentations.
  • Process and support sponsors, exhibitors and other commercial partners, ensuring booking forms and invoices are sent out and followed up for payment. Those details are added to project sheets and provided to other team members (e.g. marketing).
  • Provide updates on attendee numbers and progress with speaker details, maintaining event spreadsheets and project plans with updates.
    Send out evaluation/feedback forms to participants once events have taken place and collate results.
  • Ensure arrangements are made for events that CDI attends, ensuring all event information is documented, updated and maintained, materials are sent to site as required and so on.
  • Raise and record invoices for new event bookings.
  • Commercial: The role will provide administrative support for the commercial contracts we have with our partners and assisting with developing new opportunities.
  • Collate Data for commercial reports such as regular performance reports on advertising across CDI assets so that they can be shared with the clients.
  • Regularly review third party jobs board to identify prospective careers job advertisers for the CDI jobs board, flag opportunities to the Events and Commercial Executive for follow-up.
  • Maintain the commercial client database – updating with new bookings, insights and opportunities.
    Update the Events and Commercial Executive with any commercial prospects and opportunities (e.g. forwarding any relevant enquires).
  • Perform any other duties that are appropriate for this role.

To apply and for more information please click apply to be redirected to the CDI Jobs board.

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