Lead Events Manager
- Employer
- CHM
- Location
- London W12
- Salary
- £32,000 - £40,000
- Closing date
- 1 Oct 2018
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- Function
- Fundraising, Management, Business Development & Commercial, PR & Communications, Events Fundraising
- Sector
- Health & Medical, Social Care & Welfare
- Hours
- Full Time
- Contract Type
- Permanent
Our client, a medical research Trust is looking to recruit a Lead Events Manager. This comes during an exciting period of growth for the Charity which will see it double in size over the next three years. This role will be pivotal, leading a team to deliver a programme of sporting (cycling, hiking) overseas and UK-based challenge events and health-focussed educational courses and conferences through the Symposium Office.
Lead Events Manager
Salary: £32,000 - £40,000
Location: London W12
Full-time
Permanent
The Role
The Lead Events Manager will manage the teams organising the Challenge events and educational courses. There is an established programme of events that has been running for almost 30 years. There is also plenty of scope for diversification and new course and event development. The proceeds from each area are an important contribution to the fundraising goals of the Charity.
Duties and responsibilities include:
- To develop the programme of events and courses for medical professionals
- To ensure the smooth running of all events ensuring successful outcomes helping to support the work of the Trust
- To secure commercial sponsors for events
- Take responsibility for the budget
- Develop the marketing and PR strategies, working with appropriate staff members
- Build relationships within target groups (scientists, clinicians, tour providers, venue providers, delegates and sponsors)
- Provide line management to the team
The successful candidate will have a minimum of 3 years’ experience working in a university or charity events environment. Proven experience of line and budget management and events programme development will be necessary.
Furthermore, the Charity is looking for someone with excellent interpersonal skills, the ability to build internal and external relationships with key stakeholders and the ability to work under pressure.
About The Trust
Founded in 1978, the Trust, based at Imperial College London, is the largest collaboration of reproductive health researchers in the UK.
It is the only charity of its kind to lie consistently at the heart of original leading-edge scientific research investigating why and how things can go wrong with conception, pregnancy and birth, and cancers that affect women; delivering real evidence-based results for medical treatments and outcomes of worldwide significance.
They fund research that will make the most difference to people wanting to become parents. By supporting internationally-renowned scientists and doctors to collaborate across UK hospitals, universities and our own state-of-the-art research facilities, they speed up the pace of progress and ensure that they will continue to make the breakthroughs they know are possible.
The Symposium Office is the vital educational branch of the Charity. Currently the Symposium Office organises around 16 courses and conferences per year in conjunction with our world-leading university partner, Imperial College London. The Challenge team plans and executes around 8 events in the UK and overseas each year.
Closing date: Monday 1 October, 9am
Interviews: Week commencing 8 October
Start Date: ASAP
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