Assistant Events Manager, temporary role, until October 2025, £16.03 plus holiday pay, Heritage Centre, Cambridgeshire
Our client, a world-renowned heritage centre, requires a temporary Assistant Events Manager until October 2025 to cover Maternity leave. This is a great opportunity and is hands-on, mainly working on-site and using the full range of your Events logistics, Marketing, and customer service capabilities. This department runs a 7-day-a-week operation, so you will be required to work some weekends, public holidays, and occasional evenings.
Reporting to the Events Manager, your responsibilities will include:
* Play a key role in the delivery of the show programme, commissioning and delivering the content, and operational and logistical delivery of key aspects of the events.
* Ensure internal and external stakeholders deliver against set briefs, budgets, and to agreed timelines.
* Work with Marketing to ensure coordinated promotion.
* Ensure logistics run smoothly during the build and derig; operational management of contractors - marquees, furniture, toilets, and public address systems. Placing orders, checking health & safety paperwork.
* Supervise and motivate staff, partners, and, where relevant, volunteers.
* Creation of the traders’ content, sourcing and selecting traders who offer variety and add value to the overall event.
* Negotiation of traders’ fees and confirmation of attendance.
* Linking to the publishing team to provide content for the programmes.
* Taking lead responsibility for the content within hospitality tents: ensuring they are delivered at the right quality level in relation to the ticket price and for how the product has been sold.
* Work with the marketing, digital, and comms teams to ensure that all event marketing - social media, the website, event map, and on-site signage.
* Work with departments to ensure the visitor experience is thought through, considered, and of high quality.
* Act as the first point of contact for all stakeholder departments.
* Ensure the smooth running of entertainment, catering areas, on-site signage, maps, and an overall visitor experience programme.
* Keep a full record of any performance issues and action taken; produce monthly reports for air shows as required, under guidance from the Event Manager.
* Support with financial management.
You will have a proven track record in Events Management with a strong customer focus and a practical approach to large-scale consumer events.
This is an exciting opportunity to work in a leading heritage organisation.
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