Senior Programme Curator for Kite Live

3 months ago


London, United Kingdom Kite Insights Full time

**Introduction to Kite Insights**
- **Thoughtful action on issues that matter.**_

Kite Insights is an agency focused on research-based content, learning and strategic engagement. We believe that business has an urgent responsibility to society and the power to effect global change. We aim to provide a 360-degree view of an issue, exposing the areas that require deep thinking and where your company or organisation’s voice is needed most.

We help companies articulate and amplify their stance across multiple audiences and platforms while incorporating social impact and responsibility into broader business strategy. We help build internal capacity and external engagement around issues that matter most to you.

The Climate School, Kite’s strategic initiative, accelerates corporate responses to the climate crisis. Our learning and engagement inform, empower and equip each employee in every role to contribute to their company’s green solutions. We draw on the expertise of thought leaders and of our strategic partners to curate best-in-class training content and to activate innovation networks.

We have decades of experience developing content strategies, designing research, and delivering action-oriented learning and engagement programmes. We are a team of creative thinkers and listeners, driven by a profound sense of service and a desire for positive impact. We are courageous in our questioning, and we inspire boldness in others.
About the role
The Kite Live Lead is a key contributor to Kite Live, Kite’s curation arm of the business. We pride ourselves on curating events that are both inclusive of different voices and perspectives and embedded in local and global networks to maximise the potential for concrete and lasting action.

The Kite Live Lead will be responsible for implementing an innovative and profitable strategy and approach:

- Producing our co-created conference programmes.
- Building and creating live curation agendas on environmental and social issues.
- Designing novel formats and approaches to bringing people together both in-person and online.
- Building kite's recognition as a sought after and trusted programme curator and growing existing relationships in the conference space.
- Leading and managing the events delivery team.

**Reports to**: Head of Networks & Partnerships

**Key relationships**:The Kite Live Lead is part of Kite Creators and Connectors group - under CEOs leadership - alongside Research & Thought Leadership, Learning Content and Partnership & Networks. Key relationships include the Chief Clients & Growth Officer).

**Key reports**: Event producer
About You
You have extensive experience in physical and virtual events and building thoughtful agendas to convene people around, in interesting and novel formats, and working with event producers to bring those ideas to life. You have an understanding of social, economic and environmental issues and a familiarity and experience curating events around those issues.

You are client-centric and understand how to build different type of conferences and events, including content, production to serve different purposes and audiences.

You are intelligent, highly organised, with a commercial mind, and a self-starter, with a broad set of skills and experience that enable you to work well in a fast-paced environment that is high-performing, client & impact centric and that pushes boundaries in relation to engagement, actionability and accessibility. Your written and verbal communication skills are excellent. Interpersonal skills, emotional intelligence and a willingness to communicate in a direct way but with deep care (Radical Candour) are very important. You need to be good at multitasking and at attention to detail.

You share Kite’s sense of mission, and our culture of being thoughtful, inclusive and authentic, yet creative, challenging and rigorous.
Role Specification
The Kite Live Lead
- Supports Kite’s work with clients to curate conferences, webinars and other formats of events creation (including both content and production activities).
- Builds exceptional content and thought-provoking engaging agendas in innovative formats,
- Works with the production team to bring to life Kite’s Live events.
- Looks after the day to day management and nurturing of Kite’s international network of high-profile corporates, journalists, key opinion leaders, academics, activists, policymakers, entrepreneurs, philanthropists and investors.
- Inputs in and participates in the creation of different sustainable and profitable Kite Live commercial models.
- Builds a good connection with and understanding of partners and how to deploy them in an event context alongside the Head of Networks & Partnerships.
- Builds a good connection with and understanding of the research agenda working closely with the Head of Research & Thought Leadership on how to integrate it and use it to inform Kite Live products and delivery.
- Is a source of inputs fro


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