Job title: Senior Events Lead (Maternity Cover)
Salary: Up to £30,600.01 per annum, depending on experience
Hours: 37 per week
Contract type: Fixed term, until December 2025
Site: Lancashire Adult Learning
Closing date: Sunday 20 October 2024
Interview date: TBC

‘Would you like to be part of a team that aims to create the extraordinary?’

Our Organisation 
Nelson and Colne College Group is made up of a family of colleges – Nelson & Colne College, Lancashire Adult Learning and Accrington & Rossendale College. Our College Group is now the only Further Education college in Lancashire to be graded as ‘Outstanding’ under the new Ofsted inspection framework.

Together the Group forms a Sixth Form, Skills and Technology Centre, University Centre, Employer Training and Adult Learning Provider delivering exceptional teaching and learning to all ages and at all levels. 

Lancashire Adult Learning is an Adult Education College providing opportunities for individuals to learn, develop, work and prosper, at all stages of life.  The College is focused on making Lancashire a place where everyone matters; a place where everyone can enjoy equal and quality life chances and be respected in their communities.

The Exciting Role 

We are looking for an enthusiastic, competent and highly motivated Senior Events Lead to join our close-knit Marketing and Admissions team on a fixed-term basis.

Working in a busy and varied environment; the successful candidate will develop and execute strategic plans for all internal and external events considering objectives, target audience and desired outcomes. They will manage events budgets, ensuring impact and efficiency at every stage of event planning and execution, and will liaise with Marketing Manager, Head of Communications and Senior Design Lead to ensure exciting and engaging brand and customer experience consistency at every stage of an event.

The ideal candidate will have a proven track record planning, executing and analysing events, utilising data to inform future activities and will have experience managing stakeholders at all levels to ensure effective event delivery.

The role will be primarily based at our Lancashire Adult Learning campus however, travel across sites will be required.

What You Will Be Doing:

•  Coordinating the annual events calendar liaising with all relevant stakeholders.
• Communicating with key stakeholders for every event to ensure consistency of delivery.
• Leading event working groups to plan and deliver the Group’s event portfolio.
• Coordinating the workflow of the Events Assistant to ensure that objectives are met at all times.
• Undertaking analysis of each event (quality of attendees, overall registrations, daily execution, performance etc) with full understanding of data, to measure and analyse each event’s impact in order to effectively inform future events.
• Ensuring a consistent presence at all offsite events.
• Ensuring events align with organisational communication plans and recommendations to enhance effectiveness.
• Establishing and maintaining event management best practices, policies and operating procedures.

What We Are Looking For:

• 4 GCSEs or equivalent including Maths and English at Grade C or above
• Relevant Degree Level Qualification in a relevant field
• Proven track record planning, executing and analysing events, utilising data to inform future activities
• Proven track record managing, forecasting and reporting on event budgets to ensure maximum cost-effectiveness
• Experience managing stakeholders at all levels to ensure effective event delivery

What We Offer in Return:

• Generous annual leave entitlement increasing to a maximum of 28 days (with service), plus Bank Holidays and closure days – totalling 41 days per year
• Access to a workplace pension scheme – with employer contributions of 5% 
• Enhanced occupational sick pay scheme and access to family friendly policies and benefits
• A range of health and wellbeing benefits and support
• Staff recognition scheme, including long service awards
• Free on-site parking on all College sites

Please visit our ‘working for us’ section of our website for a full list of our benefits https://careers.nelson.ac.uk/working-for-us/benefits/

How to Apply:

Still Interested?

If you're interested in this post and would like to know more, then please visit our website and complete an application form. 

Website: https://careers.nelson.ac.uk/

Further questions: please contact our friendly HR Team [email protected]

*Please note we only accept applications submitted via our website*

Please note: All of our posts are subject to an enhanced DBS check due to working with vulnerable adults and children. Should you wish to discuss this further, please get in touch with the HR team.