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25 Jul 2023

Full-Time Assistant Events Manager

The Reader – Posted by readerjobs Liverpool, England, United Kingdom

Job Description

This is an exciting opportunity for a positive and practically minded individual with an
aptitude for maintaining high standards to join our Events team at Calderstones. The Reader’s Calderstones site is a large multi-purpose community setting for our Shared
Reading mission, with a focus on social enterprise activity to support the charities wider
work across the UK.

As an assistant event manager, you will also have the responsibility of overseeing the
successful delivery of a number of our internal programmed events and private hire events
here at Calderstones Mansion House. This role will cover 7 days and most of your hours will
be delivering the events, mostly evenings and weekends.

Person Specification

Essential

  • Demonstrate excellent organisational skills with the ability to prioritise their workload and remain calm under pressure.
  • Leading and supervising our event assistant team
  • Experience of Key Holder responsibilities, demonstrating an ability to confidently open and close a large site and maintain alarm systems.
  • Ability to work independently as well as collaboratively with colleagues within the Events department and across all departments at The Reader’s Headquarters and build relationships at all levels.
  • Highly motivated with the ability to use own initiative to resolve problems with minimal supervision
  • Able to demonstrate an understanding of the wider work of The Reader, and its social values and that these values are represented at the site.
  • Experience liaising with both private and corporate client bases, managing expectations to the highest level whilst respecting and adhering to the limitations of working in a public setting.
  • Demonstrate a meticulous attention to detail in the daily planning and delivery of events
  • Confidence in liaising with external public emergency services and ability to respond
    to incidents.
  • Proficient with IT systems, including use of Office 365 programs
  • Need to be fully flexibly over a 7-day week, on a rota basis which will include unsociable hours, weekends and bank holidays.

Desirable

  • UK driving license and access to a vehicle
  • First Aid Training
  • Customer Service Experience
  • Personal License Holder
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How to Apply

If you’re inspired by our mission, are looking for a new challenge, and want to work for a forward-thinking organisation at a really interesting time, we’d love to hear from you. To learn more about The Reader please visit https://www.thereader.org.uk/job/assistant-events-manager/ to download our recruitment pack and send completed application forms to laurakershaw@thereader.org.uk

Job Categories: Equal Opportunities. Job Types: Full-Time. Salaries: 20,000 - 40,000.

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