Events Co-ordinator

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 238049**Salary**:

- £31,120 - £33,085**Grade**:

- Higher Executive Officer**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- GO SCIENCE - Science, Innovation & Growth - Government Office for Science**Type of role**:

- Communications / Marketing**Working pattern**:

- Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time**Number of posts**:

- 1Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
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Location
- Birmingham, Cardiff, Darlington, Edinburgh, SalfordAbout the job

**Summary**:
**GO-Science**

The Government Office for Science works at the heart of Government, ensuring policies and decisions are informed by the best scientific evidence and strategic long-term thinking. It's an exciting time to join the organisation; we have outstanding and high-profile positions providing you an opportunity to inform and influence policy-making and the systems for use of science and engineering across government. If you are highly motivated and looking for your next career challenge we want to hear from you.

Our mission is:

- Science advice mechanisms that are efficient, effective, speak truth to power and are embedded irreversibly in Government systems.
- Visible impact through both pro-active and demand-led science advice that is relevant, excellent, and delivered fit for purpose.

Our values are:
Collaboration - We draw on the experience, skills and knowledge of individuals and partners to reach goals.

Kindness - We are always inclusive, respectful, and compassionate. We look out for one another on work related and non-work-related matters where appropriate.

Openness - We are curious and always openminded to new ideas, ways of working and points of view, irrelevant of how unconventional they might seem or who suggests them.

Integrity - We commit to upholding the civil service value of integrity by remaining moral, honest, and transparent. We always strive to do the right thing.

Further information can be found here.

We maintain an internal surge capability of staff who may be called at short notice to support an activation of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE). Training and support will be provided. This is an excellent opportunity to develop crisis management skills.

**Job description**:
Our Team:
What do climate change, food safety, transport emissions and sustainable housing all have in common? They are all underpinned by science and engineering.

The Role:
Supporting events - This will ensuring the profession's brand is represented at externally run events, and the profession's offer communicated through the use of promotional materials, or speaking to audiences directly about the profession.

The role holder will also have the opportunity to feed into the delivery of a cross-government campaign which will look to raise the capability of scientists and engineers within government.

**Responsibilities**:
Main responsibilities:

- Design, plan and lead on science and engineering hybrid (in person and virtual) events across government. This will involve liaising with a wide range of stakeholders across government including senior scientists and engineers and the Government Chief Scientific Advisor.
- Evaluate events to ensure they are relevant and achieving set goals.
- Develop communications and engagement strategies to embed existing products across government, including evaluation methods.
- Provide support to the communications team on running of blogs, newsletters and routine engagement with members of the Government Science and Engineering Profession.
- Help increase the profile of science and engineering across government, including coming up with creative initiatives for communication routes and methods.

**Skills and experience**

Will need to be technically proficient at organising and running hybrid-events through platforms like Eventbrite, MS Teams.

**Behaviours**:
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

- Communicating and Influencing
- Delivering at Pace
- Managing a Quality Service

**Benefits**:

- BEIS offers a competitive mix of benefits including:

- A culture of flexible working, such as job sharing, homeworking and compressed hours.
- Automatic enrolment into the Civil Service Pension Scheme.
- A minimum of 25 days of paid annual leave, increasing by 1 day per year up to a maximum of 30.
- An extensive range of learning & professional development opportunities, which all staff are actively encouraged to pursue.
- Access to a range of retail, travel and lifestyle employee discounts.
- A hybrid office/home based working model where staff will spend a norm of 40-60% of their time in the office (minimum of 40%) over a month with flex dependent on balancing business and individual need (from September 2021, depending on how the public health guidance evolves).Things you need to know

**Security**:

- People working with government assets must complete basic personnel security st