Events Delivery Specialist - 15 Month MAT Cover

About the Role

As part of the Campaigns and Events team within Marketing & Communications, you will play a key role in planning, delivering and evaluating a wide range of industry-facing events, including exhibitions, conferences, workshops, roundtables and webinars. In addition, you will support events delivery with the wider Events team.

This is a highly collaborative role requiring someone who is confident leading end-to-end event delivery, managing multiple projects simultaneously and ensuring every event is executed safely and to the highest standard. You will build strong relationships with colleagues, partners and senior stakeholders, providing expert guidance and delivering exceptional experiences for attendees.

The successful candidate will be equally comfortable working independently and as part of a project team, bringing outstanding organisational skills, attention to detail and strong communication skills.

About You

As a member of the Marketing and Communications Team, you will be responsible for leading the delivery of events effectively and within budget.

Key responsibilities

You will identify and manage the delivery of events. This will include the direction of what events to come from the

Corporate Marketing and Communications team, the National Challenges and Lead Generation

team, the Channels Manager and the Head of Marketing and Communications.

You will ensure that work is agreed budgets and timescales, maintaining a consistency of approach and use of appropriate business standards

You will also:

• Push back

on events that don't have value or strategic purpose, ensuring the Events

Delivery Team works on high quality and targeted events.

• Report on

event requests from the business, providing analyses of events requirements and

type of support delivered for key programmes

• Plan and

manage the logistics of an event, liaising with internal and external

stakeholders to determine preferences and establish budgets

• Assess

event goals and provide professional advice, expertise and leadership to

continually

• Develop

and implement plans to deadlines

• Decide on

suitable printed material required to support events and identify issues early

and ensure they are resolved to continue to meet project deadlines

• Follow up

on events by analysing feedback and making recommendations for new and

better ways of delivering solutions, services and products

• Ensure

health and safety is a key consideration in all events, completing risk

assessment forms and getting them signed off ahead of time.

• Provide

all people management processes for the Events Delivery Co-ordinator

including performance reviews for staff ensuring that they are completed

on time and to company

standards

• Responsible

for taking reasonable duty of care for Health & Safety of themselves and of

other persons who may be affected by their acts or omissions at work and

always follow direct instructions given with regards to Health &

Safety.

We actively recruit citizens of all backgrounds, but the nature of our work in specific departments means that nationality, residency and security requirements can be more tightly defined than others. You will be asked about this throughout the recruitment process. To work at NPL, you will need to obtain BPSS security clearance.

Please note: Applications will be reviewed, and interviews conducted throughout the duration of this advert therefore we may at any time bring the closing date forward. We encourage all interested applicants to apply as soon as practical.

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criteria. Applications from women, disabled and black, Asian and minority

ethnic candidates in particular are encouraged. All disabled candidates (as

defined by the Equality Act 2010) who satisfy the minimum criteria for the role

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are committed to the health and well-being of our employees. Flexible working

and social activities are embedded in our culture to create a positive

work-life balance, along with a broad range of rewards, benefits and recognition. Our

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interact, develop our people and celebrate success. To ensure everyone has

an equal chance, we're always willing to make reasonable adjustments to the

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