Events Lead

Permanent

Full time: 35 hours per week

Salary: £35,000 to £40,000 DOE + benefits package

Home based in England, Scotland or Wales – with occasional travel

About the role

As our Events Lead, you'll be the organiser of our company's most exciting events, including our Enginuity Skills Awards. This event is the biggest marketing campaign of the year in our calendar, allowing us to celebrate industry talent, showcase Enginuity's charitable endeavours, and connect with a vast network of professionals. The Events Lead will be responsible for planning, executing, and overseeing all aspects of our company's events.

What you’ll be doing

• You will develop and execute event marketing strategies in line with company objectives. You will plan and coordinate all logistics for all events, including venues, vendors, catering, and technical requirements.
• You will develop compelling event content, including sponsorship brochures, presentations, collateral, and promotional materials. Implement marketing campaigns to promote events through various channels, including email marketing, social media, and advertising.
• You will collaborate with the marketing team to create event-specific content and landing pages. Manage Skills Award categories, criteria, nomination and judging process.
• You will identify and secure event sponsors and partners. Foster relationships with sponsors and ensure they receive the expected benefits and manage sponsor and partner contracts and agreements.
• You will be expected to be onsite at these events to ensure a smooth on-site experience for attendees, speakers, and sponsors. Oversee event staff and volunteers. Handle any on-site issues or emergencies as they arise.
• You will conduct post-event evaluations to measure the success of events against predetermined KPIs. Analyse attendee feedback and make recommendations for improvement.

What we’re looking for

• We are looking for someone with evidence of meeting the associate level of professional marketing competencies set out by the Chartered Institute of Marketing, and proven experience in an Events Lead role or similar position. You will be able to provide tangible examples that demonstrates experience of delivery successful awards, conferences and events.
• You will be proficient in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Sharepoint, Teams). To ensure a seamless approach to our event management process.
• You will have the ability to generate and interpret key metrics in order to get insight into the health of a brand's community.
• You will have exceptional communication skills, both written and verbal with strong project management skills, with the ability to prioritize and meet deadlines.
• We are looking for someone who is excellent at creating, updating and communicating Marketing Plans to key stakeholders.
• Have experience in using Awards/Events software and experience in Awards category and criteria creation, nominations and judging process.

Working for EAL/Enginuity Group

We offer a supportive work environment and a comprehensive benefits package. We pride ourselves on being an inclusive place to work for all our colleagues and we want everyone to feel valued and that they can be themselves at work.

Many of our team work flexibly, and we would be happy to talk to you about how this could work for you, please let us know if you are shortlisted for interview so we can discuss this with you.

We welcome discussions regarding reasonable adjustments to support you throughout the recruitment process.

Remote/home based working at Enginuity

Your working hours will be 35 per week, working 9am until 5pm with a 1 hour lunch.

As a home-based employee you will fulfil your job responsibilities from home. Interactions with work and colleagues will be from a virtual environment. Depending on your role you will be required to either have some occasional travel or UK national travel. This travel will be required to allow you to fulfil different parts of your role and to meet colleagues on a quarterly basis. Other meetings that might require you to travel are events such as all colleague away days, training, and project work. Please review the advert to gain this insight to how much travel is expected. Also, ask at interview stage to confirm the frequency of travel and distance.

The company will provide you with the IT equipment required to carry out your role but it is a requirement that you provide all the necessary facilities for working from home; including broadband, home office, desk and chair.

Our benefits include:

• Competitive externally benchmarked salaries
• A defined contribution pension (4.5% employer/employee contribution).
• 25 days paid holiday (increasing after 1 years’ service to 26 days and 2 years to 27 days), plus bank holidays.
• 3 additional paid days for company shutdown over Christmas and New Year
• A holiday buy scheme - option to buy up 5 days extra days holiday per year
• Life assurance of 2x your salary
• A Healthcare Cash Plan so you can claim back the costs of everyday health care such as dental, optical and physiotherapy. Plus, a virtual 24 hour GP service.
• Paid membership of a Professional Body to support your continuous development.
• An Employee Assistance Programme offering free confidential advice and support
• Wellbeing programmes, access to a free wellbeing website and wellbeing app
• Paid time off to volunteer in your local community or to support wider charitable causes
• A comprehensive discounts and benefits scheme, with discounts at many high street and online retailers
• Enhanced maternity, paternity, shared parental, adoption and dependant leave
• Access to training and development opportunities

About Us

The Enginuity Group exists to find new ways to close skills gaps in UK engineering and manufacturing in order to create a more productive sector at the forefront of designing, making and maintaining the solutions to society’s greatest challenges. Enginuity is a charity that has created a ‘common language’ for engineering and manufacturing occupation and skills data, to help employers have the right skills at the right time to adapt faster to change.

We use this unique approach to sector data, alongside our deep understanding of the skills needs of UK engineering and manufacturing businesses, to:

• support engineering and manufacturing employers in discovering new sources of skills;
• provide insights and recommendations on the skills that are increasingly in demand so businesses, sectors and government can plan ahead;
• and alongside EAL, the Enginuity Group's specialist Awarding Organisation, End Point Assessment Organisation and skills partner for industry, connect organisations to ensure technical education is fit for purpose and keeps pace with changing industry needs, new technologies and the net-zero transition.

Further Information

If you have any questions, a request for further information, or would like to request this information in an alternative format, our Recruitment Team will be happy to help. Email us at recruitment@enginuity.org.

We’re unable support UK relocation or to sponsor a visa for this role.

Depending on the volume of applications, the closing date for this position may be extended or brought forward.