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Senior Events Specialist

Employer
ActionAid
Location
EC1R 0BJ, London (Greater)
Salary
£40,222 - £41,440 pro rata, per annum
Closing date
28 Jul 2019

Job Details

ActionAid UK are recruiting for a Senior Events Specialist on a fixed term contract basis, to cover a period of maternity leave.

 

ActionAid is an international charity that works with women and girls living in poverty. Our dedicated local staff are ending violence against women and girls and helping change lives, for good. We won’t stop until women and girls are out of danger, out of poverty and on track to create the future they want.

As Senior Events Specialist, you will have the opportunity to lead on several areas of work such as our presence at Latitude festival and we will look to you to embed a consistent approach to hosting and running events from both a PR and a fundraising standpoint.

It’s an exciting time to join as we look to build on our work in 2019, whilst planning and improving our event strategy in 2020. This will be a chance for you to bring new ideas to our existing strategy; helping us to reach more people in new and innovative ways.

We will look to you to develop and coordinate the delivery of event plans, which will involve key milestones and dependencies; you will also be responsible for implementing necessary risk mitigation activities. In order to achieve this, you must have excellent organisational skills, which include the ability to carry out a number of tasks at one time.

As Senior Events Specialist, you will support your colleagues in the planning of events, while also leading events yourself and where necessary you will provide technical expertise to ensure plans are realistic and achievable. Therefore, we are keen to receive applications from those with proven experience of organising and delivering successful external events of different sizes and to different audiences from festivals and stunts to celebrity photoshoots.

You will work cross-organisationally with all public facing teams to ensure that events management is aligned with all other externally facing communication and public engagement activities, such as our Access to Justice campaign and Women by Women project. This role will also require you to build strong relationships with external stakeholders ensuring we are also getting the best deals.

Linked to this, is your ability to be a strong project manager and to lead on the engagement of internal influencers, to ensure you receive the necessary support for the the planning, delivery, and follow-up stages of an event; this involves ensuring their full commitment with regards to their time and resources.

As you will work with colleagues to develop creative concepts for events, it is essential that you are able to demonstrate both strong leadership skills and also the ability to work well as part of a cross- organisational team. You will promote an inclusive and supportive environment that both inspires and challenges colleagues to do their best.

If you have the skills and experience required, along with the desire to work within an organisation, which is committed to working for the rights of women and girls, please apply!

Please note that this is a part time role, for 21 hours per week and is being offered as a 12 month fixed term contract to cover a period of maternity leave.

ActionAid is committed to driving improvement through digital channels, tools and ways of working. We will ensure that we provide the technology and the training to enable all staff to perform their roles to the best of their abilities. In return, we ask that all staff are committed to continually improving their digital skills and knowledge within the working environment. Our recruitment processes will evaluate the digital skills of all applicants.  

Company

ActionAid is an international development charity which works in 45 countries across Africa, Asia and Latin America. Founded in 1972, ActionAid is an international federation and has offices in Johannesburg, Nairobi, Rio de Janeiro, Bangkok and Washington DC, as well as London.

ActionAid UK is part of the international federation and almost all of the people and partners who run ActionAid programmes are from the developing world. This means its staff are on the ground, experiencing poverty at first hand. They see day-to-day how poverty affects people’s lives, and are uniquely placed to give a voice to the women and children who suffer most.

ActionAid’s work has several different components, unified by a commitment to place women and girls at the centre of its work. The charity aims to end hunger by giving millions of people in extreme poverty the skills they need to grow sustainable food, and campaigns to address the causes of hunger.

ActionAid also responds to emergencies and conflicts. It provided emergency assistance to more than 600,000 people in 2015 and trained nearly 46,000 others to protect lives and prepare for emergencies. In total the charity responded to 27 emergencies around the world last year.

Improving access to education is another facet of its mission. 59 million children, more than half of them girls, were out of school in 2013. ActionAid works with more than 5,000 schools across Africa, Asia and Latin America to help over a millions girls and boys get the free, quality education they are entitled to.

Women’s rights and gender equality informs all of ActionAid’s activities. The charity works with communities against female genital mutilation, gender-based violence and forced early marriage.

ActionAid also campaigns for tax justice, fairer wages and more effective aid which can tackle the roots causes of poverty. It estimates that poorer countries lose around $200 billion a year from tax dodging by companies.

A variety of different roles are available at ActionAid including policy adviser, fundraising offer and HR manager. Employee benefits are plentiful, encompassing the opportunity to develop new skills, a pension scheme, childcare vouchers and free advice services.

ActionAid also supports selected UK employees to travel to host countries in order to gain first-hand experience of its in-country work. Frequent secondments, whereby employees work, for a period, in another department or different country in the federation, take place. The charity encourages job shares.

Company info
Website
Telephone
020 3122 0561
Location
33-39 Bowling Green Lane
London
EC1R 0BJ
GB

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