AddressEvents Manager - Inside IR35
Contract Term: 4 months
Contracting Authority: Department for Work and Pensions
Location: Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle or Sheffield
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is responsible for welfare, pensions, and child maintenance policy. As the UK’s biggest public service department, it administers the State Pension and a range of working age, disability and ill health benefits to around 20 million claimants and customers. As such, we operate on a scale that is almost unmatched anywhere in Europe and most people in Britain come into contact with us at some point in their lives.
Working with DWP, you will be helping us to drive our priorities to:
· Run an effective welfare system that enables people to achieve financial independence by providing assistance and guidance into employment
· Increase saving for, and security in later life
· Create a fair and affordable welfare system which improves the life chances of children
· Deliver outstanding services to our customers and claimants
· Deliver efficiently: transform the way we deliver our services to reduce costs and increase productivity
As an Events Manager your main responsibilities will be:
· Implementing activities outlined in the internal events strategy.
· Attend virtual and face to face events when needed for more than 5000 Digital Group colleagues, ensuring they run smoothly using MS Teams and MS Teams Live Events where necessary.
· Planning delivery of our Digital Showcase, a 5 day series of events in April 2024, which engages with colleagues about DWPs challenge to be digital first.
· Finding opportunities to promote our events in the most engaging and effective way.
· Monitor and evaluate events to drive continuous improvements and make recommendations to enhance event standards.
· Collaborative working with the wider Digital Engagement community, to ensure coordinated approach to promoting events.
· Work with partners to develop event plans and support delivery to ensure events are delivered on time, to budget, and to high standards.
· The role will work very closely alongside the DWP Digital’s communications and engagement team to ensure key messages of the events are covered, that they are promoted and advertised in the most effective way possible to get maximum sign up.
Required experience:
· Competency in using MS Teams and other engagement tools.
· The ability to communicate in an engaging manner with appropriate styles to maximise understanding and impact.
· Experience of writing event communications.
If this role sounds like something that you would be interested in, please click the link to apply or get in touch with Thomas.Walker@publicsectorresourcing.co.uk
Disability confident
As a member of the disability confident scheme, DWP guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group.
If you qualify for the above, please notify us on PSRapplications@publicsectorresourcing.co.uk.
We will be in touch to discuss your suitability and arrange your Guaranteed Interview.
Should you require reasonable adjustments at any point during the recruitment process or if there is a more accessible way for us to communicate, please do let me know.
In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following, this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different.
Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.
Job Type: Fixed term contract
Contract length: 4 months
Salary: £200.00-£250.00 per day
Schedule:
- Monday to Friday
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Manchester
Application deadline: 20/03/2024
Reference ID: PSR1JP00076857
