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Assistant Events Manager, temporary role, until October 2025 Ā£16.03 plus holiday pay, Heritage Centre, Cambridgeshire
Our client, a world-renowned heritage centre requires a temporary Assistant Events Manager until October 2025 to cover Maternity leave. This is a great opportunity and is hands on, mainly working on site and using the full range of your Events logistics, Marketing and customer service capabilities. This department runs a 7 day a week operation so you will be required to work some weekends and public holidays, and occasional evenings.
Reporting to the Events Manager your responsibilities will include:
- Play a key role in the delivery of the show programme, commissioning and delivering the content, and operational and logistical delivery of key aspects of the events
- Ensure internal and external stakeholders deliver against set briefs, budgets and to agreed timelines.
- work with Marketing to ensure co-ordinated promotion
- ensure logistics run smoothly during the build and derig; operational management of contractors - marquees, furniture, toilets, and public address systems. Placing orders, checking health & safety paperwork
- supervise and motivate staff, partners and, where relevant, volunteers
- creation of the tradersā content, sourcing and selecting traders who offer variety and add value to the overall event
- negotiation of tradersā fees and confirmation of attendance
- linking to the publishing team to provide content for the programmes
- taking lead responsibility for the content within hospitality tents: ensuring they are delivered at the right quality level in relation to the ticket price and for how the product has been sold
- work with the marketing, digital and comms teams to ensure that all event marketing - social media, the website, event map and on site signage
- work with departments to ensure the visitor experience is thought through, considered and of high quality
- act as first point of contact for all stakeholder departments
- ensure the smooth running of entertainment, catering areas, on site signage and maps and an overall visitor experience programme
- keep a full record of any performance issues and action taken; produce monthly reports for air shows as required, under guidance from the Event Manager
- support with financial management
You will have a proven track record in Events Management with a strong customer focus and a practical approach to large scale consumer events.
This is an exciting opportunity to work in a leading heritage organisation.
Due to the large number of applications that we receive, only shortlisted applicants will be contacted.
Val Wade Recruitment are actively looking for applicants from underrepresented communities, and pride ourselves as an equal opportunitiesā employer and agency.
