Events Officer

Events Officer

Permanent, Full Time 37 hours per week, 52 weeks per year

Salary: £27,288 per annum (Professional Services Grade 6)

Campus: Trowbridge, Chippenham, Lackham or Salisbury Wiltshire (Dependant on your home location), with travel to all campuses

About the role

Are you passionate about creating unforgettable experiences and driving engagement through innovative events? We're seeking a motivated and dynamic Events Officer to join our Marketing team!

As the Events Officer, you'll be responsible for meticulously planning, coordinating and executing a diverse variety of events. Your primary focus will be to increase enquiries, applications and enrolments, while ensuring these events align with organisational objectives and boost the college's profile within the community. This role requires a data-driven approach to achieve set KPIs, identify growth opportunities, and enhance the quality of events.

In this role you will:

• Plan, organise, and manage events including open days, award ceremonies, graduation ceremonies, employer events and other college-related events.
• Coordinating all aspects of event logistics, including sourcing and booking venues, supporting literature and signage, booking procedures and event promotion.
• Take a data-led approach and work to achieve specific KPIs based on feedback and booking data.
• Identifying opportunities for improvement and growth of events.
• Supporting other college staff with events that they are running.

About You

The successful candidate will:-

• Have proven experience in event planning, preferably in an educational related setting.
• Be an enthusiastic person who is happy to take on a wide range of projects at the same time and prioritise their own work to deliver to deadlines.
• Have generalist marketing skills ideally including writing, social media content creation and event management. Experience of photography videography would be advantageous but is not essential.
• Be a customer focused team player with strong communication skills and the ability to engage stakeholders at all levels. You will be adaptable and flexible and be able to effectively react to changing priorities.
• The role will involve regular travel around Wiltshire so it is essential that any applicants must hold a full driving licence and have access to their own vehicle.

You will be required to work at our Trowbridge campus during training, your base campus will be negotiable thereafter.

About Us

Wiltshire College & University Centre plays a vital role in Wiltshire’s economy, inspiring people to develop the skills they need to achieve. Our four campuses are learning hubs in their communities, and we aspire to be an outstanding, financially robust and commercially agile provider, achieving our clear social mission on behalf of leaners and employers across Wiltshire and beyond. Our turnover is around £38 million per annum, we employ some 650 staff, and support around 11,500 students.

Our benefits include a competitive salary and 30 days' annual leave for Professional Services Staff, 37 days' annual leave for Academic Staff and 35 days' annual leave for management staff (plus bank holidays and additional closure days over the Christmas period). You will also be automatically enrolled into either the Teachers' Pension Scheme or Local Government Pension Scheme, have access to our employee assistance programme (EAP) and enjoy other benefits such as discounts with a wide variety of retailers and free car parking onsite.

To apply
Please complete an application form detailing how your skills, knowledge and experience meet the requirements for the role.

For further information or an informal discussion about the role, please contact Carl Blunden (Marketing & Communications Manager) Carl.Blunden@Wiltshire.ac.uk

Closing date: 04/02/24

Please note that vacancies may close early if sufficient applications have been received; therefore, we would encourage you to submit your application as soon as possible.

Interview date: 12/02/24

Information

Wiltshire College & University Centre is committed to Safeguarding. We recruit in line with the Safer Recruitment Guidance set out by the Department for Education in ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’. This includes carrying out an enhanced DBS check (which the College will pay for), including an enhanced children’s barred list check and other employment checks, which include a search of the online presence of shortlisted candidates.

At Wiltshire College & University Centre we value diversity, and we recognise that people with different backgrounds bring different perspectives, ideas, knowledge, and culture, and that this difference brings great strength. We are committed to the protection of young people and vulnerable adults and to safeguarding and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

We are proudly accredited to the Disability Confident Employer award, part of this means a commitment to interview all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for a job vacancy and consider them on their abilities.

Please contact us with any queries.