Global Events Manager To £53,000

Fully remote role based anywhere in the UK ( flexible hours )

1 year FTC Contract

Love Success is supporting a global network and not-for-profit organisation whose mission is to expand educational opportunities around the world. We have a unique opportunity that will see you working fully remotely across the UK with your team who are based remotely across 30 different countries.

The primary responsibility of this role is to deliver successful, inspiring and effective events on a regular basis. As Events Manager, you will be responsible for managing up to 5-6 in-person and virtual internal and external conferences (including our flagship Global Conference) and meetings a year, providing end to end support from the planning phase to on-the-ground execution and event wrap-up, including payments and impact evaluation. This role will take you all over the world, as you support the organisation in the delivery of high calibre events.

We can only consider candidates who have had previous end-to-end Global Events experience:-

• Manage the project planning, budgeting, communication with participants and execution of logistics for approximately 5-6 events per year. Must exercise judgement in juggling competing priorities and managing time across multiple projects at once, including assessing event needs against costs and independently making decisions on all logistics
• Provide direction through a logistics perspective on overall event and session design and attendee experience, including on diversity, equity and inclusion, and work closely with the content lead on each event
• Balance across needs of various internal and external stakeholders and demonstrate leadership and adaptability while managing toward budget/event policies and ensuring that learning objectives can be met.
• Negotiate with external suppliers and balance hidden and external costs to stay within strict event budgets in a non-profit environment
• Lead on-the-ground support to ensure seamless delivery of the event in order to meet the
  outlined learning objectives. Requires independent judgement to problem-solve issues of widely
  ranging nature and troubleshoot immediate challenges and make quick decisions when faced
  with unexpected circumstances.
• Independently manage end-to-end vendor relationships including needs assessment, selection, contracting and payment, and ongoing vendor management for supported events.

Salary will be dependent upon experience.