Events Executive

_**Events Executive - £24k to £26k + Benefits + Career Progression - Central London**_

A professional membership organisation in central London, is looking for an Event Executive to join their team. This is a great opportunity, where you can develop and grow your career within Events. You wil be coordinating various events throughout the year,which can be anything from educational programes, corporate events, awards events, etc. You will be involved in all of the initial contact and booking, thought to attending the kick off meetings with key stakeholders and Education Programme Managers to finaliselogistics to enable a handover of an event brief and programme, once handed over, Event Executives are responsible for the delivery and continued planning of the event.

**SALARY ETC**:

- £24k to £26k, excellent career progression within the events sector, excellent benefits.
- Central London
- Permanent, full-time
- Monday to Friday, office based hours, although some out of hour work may be required on occassions, depending on client needs.
- Hybrid based working

**REQUIREMENTS**:

- Educated to degree level, or equivalent experience
- Experience within a busy events team, ideally with some in person and digital events experience
- Fluent in written and spoken English to professional business standards
- Proven effective experience of coordination and running of events
- Experience of production of management reports including financial
- Experience of using a computer database and IT literate

**DUTIES TO INCLUDE**:

- Work in close liaison with meeting organisers in the development and delivery of the event
- Highlight opportunities for innovation, creative approaches and the use of technology to support events and make them more engaging
- Produce an event SLA for Education Programme Managers and Education Event Team Manager to approve and ensure SLA is adhered to throughout event planning
- Proposes budgets for allocated events and monitor financials throughout event planning stages to achieve and where possible exceed targets - highlighting concerns where appropriate
- Upload event programme to website following brand guidelines and house style
- Attend regular event planning meetings, section council meetings where required
- For webinars, following our in-person processes, there is a requirement to set up the Zoom platform to hold the webinar on, along with attendance at the test webinars with the AV team and availability on the day of webinars to ensure the smooth runningof the event
- Work with and provide event information to marketing and communication teams for the promotion of the event and circulate promotional materials to speakers
- Manage all operational aspects of coordinating event, collaborating with other departments such as catering, audio visual and internal operations team
- Where applicable with out of house events support venue finding, contract negotiation and manage operations with external venue
- Work with the Customer Service team to ensure they know about events to enable them to answer delegate questions and provide and excellent customer service
- Assure effective liaison with speakers, and organise travel and accommodation, where required, invite people to speak at events and manage responses working closely with Education Programme Managers
- Work with members of the Customer Service team to ensure organisation and collation of delegate packs and other event resources in preparation for the event
- Attend the event, creating a strong presence on the day ensuring speakers, sponsors and meeting organiser are fully supported
- Be the first point of contact on the day for delegate queries ensuring excellent customer service is given
- Manage feedback from delegates to evaluate the event