Conference Producer

**Conference Producer**

, Permanent

**About Us**

We are the Institute for Government & Public Policy.

Our vision is to be a leading influencer and informer in the ongoing public policy development and debate. Our focus is on government and public policy and on how it impacts all those it affects. Our belief is that the most productive and positive outcomes can only be delivered through enhancing knowledge, disseminating excellence, collaboration, and ongoing discussions. We support our partners, members, and other stakeholders through professional development (including events, courses, and membership), peer-to-peer support, policy and influence, and research.

**Benefits / Perks**
- Flexible/hybrid working
- Birthday Off Work
- Company pension scheme
- 22 days of holiday per year plus bank holidays, increasing by one day for every year's service, up to a maximum of 25 days
- Training & development plans with the opportunity to grow and progress within the company
- Regular social events
- Scenic office location with cafes, restaurants, gyms etc on site
- 1 paid day of volunteer work per year
- Casual dress
- Free parking
- On site parking

**The Role**

The Conference Producer supports the Research & Content in producing and delivering online and face-to-face conferences and events. They are a member of the Operational Management Team.

This team currently comprises a department head and two Conference Production Managers.

The primary role of Research & Content is to produce training and event concepts, develop event content, and acquire trainers and conference chairs/speakers to deliver the course or conference.

IGPP delivers between 60 and 80 full-day conferences annually, of which approximately 50 are face-to-face conferences (typically held in Central London or Manchester). Alongside these, we deliver an expanding range of training events.

Research and content also contribute to our marketing and membership activities (e.g., by conducting surveys, sourcing/producing research, writing post-event reports, and blogging).

Content underpins everything we do. You will need to create topical, relevant, interesting, and engaging events which deliver commercial success. Ideally, our events will be anchored to a current legislative or public policy change supported by evidence-based academic research.

You must effectively and efficiently identify and select the best topics to meet these criteria. Horizon scanning, research, and analysis (including customer and past-performance data analysis) are essential tools in this process. After the topics are chosen, you need to schedule them (avoiding competitors and other conflicts) and oversee the writing of high quality overviews and agendas which support the commercial success of the event.

With these in place, you need to identify and acquire high-quality speakers and trainers (ideally with a broad range of diversity). And you must get a commitment from these speakers/trainers as early as possible before events take place to give marketing and sales the maximum opportunity to sell them.

**Responsibilities**

Conference/course production
- Project management of conference production to ensure delivery of key targets and deadlines for each product
- Liaise with senior internal stakeholders to plan and map out the content for each product
- Review and optimise conference/course production processes
- Ongoing horizon scanning, competitor and market analysis, along with desk, telephone and face-to-face research, to identify conference/course topics and deliver value for the target audience
- Oversee (and write) the production of conference/course overviews and agendas
- Analyse and report on the success of events based on qualitative and quantitative surveys and polls to drive continuous improvement

External stakeholders/speaker management and acquisition
- Build relationships with key partners, clients and customers, including the University of East London and Government departments and agencies

Conference/course delivery
- Manage content delivery/speaker management on-site/online at face-to-face and virtual events

Support to other departments
- Collaborate with marketing, sales and operations teams to drive commercial success, including:

- Producing research proposals outlining the value proposition and unique selling points of the event
- generating and sourcing content (blogs, white papers, surveys, template starters etc) for marketing and sales
- supporting the sponsorship team to ensure the appropriate selection and targeting of appropriate event sponsors
- Liaise with marketing to create social media assets for conference speakers and trainers to support the promotion of the events and courses

Other
- Any other tasks as may be required by the business from time to time

**Requirements**:
Essential
- Educated to degree level
- Minimum years (1) year of experience in commercial event development or a similar role, having delivered and managed growth i