Senior Events Manager

Department: Estates and Facilities Directorate
Salary: £42,405 – £49,785 per annum (Grade 5)
Reference: 1404
Location: Mile End
Date posted: 23 February 2024
Closing date: 11 March 2024

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Overview

About the Role

The Senior Event Manager will report directly into the Head of QM Venues Operations, acting as an established event operator, planning and managing QM Venues (commercial and non-commercial) events across the Queen Mary estate to include residential conferences, day events, weddings, theatre and performance, seminars and festivals on the campuses.

About You

• Take ownership of the operation of the Great Hall and People’s Palace including technical, H&S and planning of events.
• Support the Head of QM Operations and Venues in the strategic development of People’s Palace into a fully commercial entity
• Take the lead in all large scale and multi day events across campuses
• Support the Head of QM Operations and Venues with the delivery of all filming requests across sites
• Deputise for the Head of QM Operations and Venues
• Support the Head of QM Operations and Venues with delegation of events, staff rota and overall day to day department management
• Direct line management of one or more coordinators and support them with operational challenges, development and training
• Work closely with other Event Managers to ensure all events are evenly distributed, planned and managed
• Build strong and lasting relationships with key stakeholders in the University
• Accurately plan and execute events and ensure all details are in the booking system (KX) and communicated to various service departments and stakeholders to ensure smooth delivery of event

About Queen Mary

At Queen Mary University of London, we believe that a diversity of ideas helps us achieve the previously unthinkable.

Throughout our history, we’ve fostered social justice and improved lives through academic excellence. And we continue to live and breathe this spirit today, not because it’s simply ‘the right thing to do’ but for what it helps us achieve and the intellectual brilliance it delivers.

We continue to embrace diversity of thought and opinion in everything we do, in the belief that when views collide, disciplines interact, and perspectives intersect, truly original thought takes form.

Benefits

We offer competitive salaries, access to a generous pension scheme, 30 days’ leave per annum (pro-rata for part-time/fixed-term), a season ticket loan scheme and access to a comprehensive range of personal and professional development opportunities. In addition, we offer a range of work life balance and family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, and campus facilities including an on-site nursery at the Mile End campus.

Queen Mary’s commitment to our diverse and inclusive community is embedded in our appointments processes. Reasonable adjustments will be made at each stage of the recruitment process for any candidate with a disability. 

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