Events Product Officer

Are you an experienced Events Manager who wants to make an impact on thousands of people? 

Our flagship events are the starting point for thousands of students at UCL on their journey to an enriching student experience. We’re making impact on the lives of students each year through our arts, sports, volunteering and inter-cultural engagement programmes, all of which are support by our excellent events team. The Events Manager leads our festival style events like Welcome Fair and International Festival, and sets a culture of high quality, excellent event management, empowering and enabling others to deliver events throughout the academic year.

This is an exciting role in a unique organisation. Our vision is of an outstanding experience for all UCL students and to be one of the best students’ unions in the UK and the world.  We aim to build a vibrant and empowered student community with real influence in UCL and beyond, that enables students to enjoy their time at university; pursue their interests and passions; see things in new ways; and develop the skills and experience to change the world for the better.

We are a registered charity employing over 100 career staff and 300 student staff, delivering a wide range of services and representative functions for UCL students. We have the widest portfolio of services any student organisation in the country, managing UCL’s extracurricular programmes for sport, music, drama, dance, media, volunteering, academic societies and intercultural engagement; providing a wide range of fantastic social spaces; leading on student democracy and representation across UCL; and offering excellent student support services.

It's an exciting time our growing organisation as we lead the delivery of UCL’s groundbreaking new Student Life Strategy. This is enabling us to build more programmes to improve students’ mental and physical wellbeing, promote genuine equity for all, build students’ skills and confidence, develop their international connections and intercultural skills, and make a real contribution to our local community. 

We support flexible working, with hybrid working for all staff.

Excellent benefits including defined pension scheme and generous holiday entitlement. We are proud of high levels of staff engagement and pride ourselves on being a great place to work.

This role is a fixed term maternity cover role until July 2025.

Interviews: Thursday, 28 March 2024