Events Coordinator

**Events Coordinator (12-month fixed term contract)**
- People’s Postcode Lottery raises funds for good causes. Together with our charity partners and players, our team members help create a fairer, greener and healthier world. You could be part of this amazing mission as an Events Coordinator. Join our international team at the Postcode Lottery Group in the Netherlands, Sweden, Great Britain, Germany and Norway_

You will join a great team of colleagues who are honest, kind, respectful, and collaborative. We share and celebrate success and have a lot of fun while doing so. From our winners’ presentations to our annual team events your position will have a key role in the planning and delivery of our internal and external events.
- “It’s amazing to be part of delivering life changing prizes to our winners - talk about rewarding No day is the same working here - whether that’s planning engaging activities for our annual Team Day, presenting large cheques at our winner events or participating in a baking competition in the office - there’s always something fun to get involved in”_

Gillian Rhodes, Senior Events Coordinator

**Your tasks**
- Coordinate and lead events from conception through to delivery
- Lead event briefings
- Venue, location and supplier sourcing
- Develop and maintain stakeholder and supplier relations
- Work collaboratively with departments across the business such as TV, Marketing, Charities and HR

**Your qualities**
- You’re a team player with an enthusiastic, proactive attitude.
- You’re level-headed, with the ability to make on the spot decisions and action them confidently.
- You are able to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines.
- You have relevant experience in planning and delivering medium to large sized events
- You are able to demonstrate an understanding of events health and safety

**Benefits of working with us**:

- You will receive a competitive salary, join an excellent pension scheme and benefit from private medical care.
- We have a strong culture of learning and development. Our Lottery Academy offers an extensive range of training programmes and courses. There are also many career opportunities in the UK and abroad.
- We enjoy working with one another. We regularly arrange social activities and organise our Christmas breakfast event at the end of the year, a date that everyone looks forward to, where we look back proudly at what we’ve achieved together.
- Your wellbeing is important to us. That’s why we offer a variety of options including an inhouse gym, with an optional weekly massage, and access to mental health support services.
- You’re regularly involved in the work carried out by the charities thanks to the funds we raise for them. This includes volunteering, project visits, presentations in our seminar space, and an invite to the annual Charity Gala attended by the organisations our players support.

**Your future department**:
The in-house events team plan and deliver all of our internal and external events and celebrations, including the prestigious annual Charity Gala and special team events. They are also behind our monthly Postcode Millions events and all of our Street Prize presentations.

**Your future employer**:
The Postcode Lottery Group is an international organisation with a social purpose. We set up and run lotteries to raise funds for a fairer, greener, healthier world.

Our players win prizes together with their neighbours and raise money for charity - it’s a win-win

Postcode Lottery players have now raised over €12 billion for thousands of charities since 1989. We are one of the largest private charity donors in the world.

Every day, more than 1,500 team members in the Netherlands, Sweden, Great Britain, Germany and Norway are helping to raise €2.3 million for charity partners.

People are at the heart of what we do. Whether it’s our team, our players or the thousands of good causes supported, our aim is to play our part in creating a fairer, more equal world. We are open to ideas and are committed to creating a culture that is inclusive, representative and celebrates diversity in everyone. But we are not perfect. We will always strive to do better, that’s just who we are.

**Join us**

**Job Types**: Full-time, Fixed term contract
Contract length: 12 months

**Benefits**:

- Casual dress
- Company events
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Discounted or free food
- Flexitime
- Gym membership
- Life insurance
- On-site gym
- Private medical insurance
- Sick pay
- Work from home

Schedule:

- Flexitime
- Monday to Friday
- Weekend availability

Work Location: One location

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