Job summary
NHS England's strategic events team is looking to recruit a highly organised, motivated and flexible strategic events manager with the flair and imagination to deliver and support forward-looking, engaging corporate events for health and care leaders and their teams
As a strategic events manager, you will work as part of a small but dynamic team to plan and deliver great events which inspire colleagues and share learning and best practice across the health and care system.
We have approved the external recruitment of these/ several business-critical roles as fixed term contracts. This decision was made through the agreed recruitment controls process and endorsed by national directors.
The reason for Fixed Term Contract is: Maternity Cover.
Main duties of the job
Key responsibilities include:
- Leading on key aspects of organising our flagship event NHS ConfedExpo in June 2024 in Manchester, attracting around 5,500 delegates and featuring high-profile speakers across a number of stages.
- Leading on delivering our programme of NHS leadership events, around 8 per year.
- Evaluating our NHS leadership events against set objectives, to inform planning for future eventsand ensure they are responsive to NHS leaders' needs and preferences.
- Helping co-ordinate attendance at high-profile external national conferences and exhibitions.
- Building effective working relationships with teams to ensure events are an integral and effective channel within communications strategies and plans.
- Providing professional events guidance and support to internal teams to help them plan their own in person and online events, conferences and workshops, in accordance with policies and in the most cost-effective way.
- Oversight of the delegate registration system and supporting the design and procurement of a single future system.
- Reviewing business cases to ensure events being delivered across the organisation offer value for money and are appropriate.
About us
If you've got broad events management experience, a can-do attitude and want to get stuck into a varied, exciting role supporting the whole of the NHS to learn, develop and share best practice then this could be the perfect role for you. We're a friendly team with great links and relationships across all parts of NHS England and with our partners.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post is Leeds or London based with hybrid working. You will also be required to travel regularly to Leeds/London and throughout England for corporate meetings and events. Overnight stays will be required.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post is Leeds or London based with hybrid working. You will also be required to travel regularly to Leeds/London and throughout England for corporate meetings and events. Overnight stays will be required.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to post-graduate degree level in events management, communications, marketing or other similar subject, or equivalent level qualification or significant experience of working at a similar level in the specialist area. Further training or significant experience in project management
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
- Strong knowledge of the events industry
- Knowledge and experience of events venues
- Experience of working within an events role or a communications/marketing role with responsibility for events
- Experience of marketing events or similar projects
- Demonstrated experience of co-ordinating projects in complex and challenging environments. A good understanding of the health and social care environment and roles and responsibilities within it.
- Strong knowledge and experience of events management/registration systems and working with a range of online events platforms and engagement technologies.
- Experience of writing and developing communications resources and materials for a range of channels, including online and offline
- Experience of developing tactical marketing plans using various channels
- Evidence of continued professional development. Experience of managing risks and reporting. Experience of drafting reports, briefing papers and correspondence for senior management level.
- Experience of monitoring budgets and business planning processes. Understanding of the public sector.
- Comprehensive knowledge of project principles, techniques and tools, such as Prince 2 Foundation and Microsoft Project. Experience of setting up and implementing internal processes and procedures.
Desirable
- Experience of managing team members.
- Demonstrated experience in a Healthcare environment
- Good understanding of contact management/customer relationship database and e-marketing systems
Skills Capabilities and Aptitudes
Essential
- Understanding and appreciation of good exhibition stand design principles Clear communicator with excellent written and presentation skills; capable of constructing and delivering clear ideas and concepts concisely and accurately to a diverse and varied range of audiences consisting of internal and external stakeholders.
- Ability to prepare and produce concise yet insightful communications for dissemination to senior stakeholders and a broad range of stakeholders as required.
- Ability to analyse very complex issues where material is conflicting and drawn from multiple sources.
- Demonstrated capability to act upon incomplete information, using experience to make inferences and decision making. Numerate and able to understand complex financial issues combined with deep analytical skills.
- Demonstrated capabilities to manage own workload and make informed decisions in the absence of required information, working to tight and often changing timescales. Knowledge of Financial Systems e.g. monitoring budget management, processing invoices and procurement.
- Demonstrated capability to plan over short, medium and long-term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly. Demonstrated capabilities to manage own workload and make informed decisions in the absence of required information, working to tight and often changing timescales.
Values and Behaviours
Essential
- Commitment to and focused on quality, promotes high standards in all they do. Able to make a connection between their work and the benefit to patients and the public.
- Consistently thinks about how their work can help and support clinicians and frontline staff deliver better outcomes for patients. Values diversity and difference operates with integrity and openness. Works well with others, is positive and helpful, listens, involves, respects and learns from the contribution of others. Consistently looks to improve what they do, look for successful tried and tested ways of working, and also seeks out innovation.
- Actively develops themselves and supports others to do the same. Understanding of and commitment to equality of opportunity and good working relationships
- An ability to maintain confidentiality and trust. Adaptability, flexibility and ability to cope with uncertainty and change
Other
Essential
- Able to travel across various sites where applicable
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to post-graduate degree level in events management, communications, marketing or other similar subject, or equivalent level qualification or significant experience of working at a similar level in the specialist area. Further training or significant experience in project management
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
- Strong knowledge of the events industry
- Knowledge and experience of events venues
- Experience of working within an events role or a communications/marketing role with responsibility for events
- Experience of marketing events or similar projects
- Demonstrated experience of co-ordinating projects in complex and challenging environments. A good understanding of the health and social care environment and roles and responsibilities within it.
- Strong knowledge and experience of events management/registration systems and working with a range of online events platforms and engagement technologies.
- Experience of writing and developing communications resources and materials for a range of channels, including online and offline
- Experience of developing tactical marketing plans using various channels
- Evidence of continued professional development. Experience of managing risks and reporting. Experience of drafting reports, briefing papers and correspondence for senior management level.
- Experience of monitoring budgets and business planning processes. Understanding of the public sector.
- Comprehensive knowledge of project principles, techniques and tools, such as Prince 2 Foundation and Microsoft Project. Experience of setting up and implementing internal processes and procedures.
Desirable
- Experience of managing team members.
- Demonstrated experience in a Healthcare environment
- Good understanding of contact management/customer relationship database and e-marketing systems
Skills Capabilities and Aptitudes
Essential
- Understanding and appreciation of good exhibition stand design principles Clear communicator with excellent written and presentation skills; capable of constructing and delivering clear ideas and concepts concisely and accurately to a diverse and varied range of audiences consisting of internal and external stakeholders.
- Ability to prepare and produce concise yet insightful communications for dissemination to senior stakeholders and a broad range of stakeholders as required.
- Ability to analyse very complex issues where material is conflicting and drawn from multiple sources.
- Demonstrated capability to act upon incomplete information, using experience to make inferences and decision making. Numerate and able to understand complex financial issues combined with deep analytical skills.
- Demonstrated capabilities to manage own workload and make informed decisions in the absence of required information, working to tight and often changing timescales. Knowledge of Financial Systems e.g. monitoring budget management, processing invoices and procurement.
- Demonstrated capability to plan over short, medium and long-term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly. Demonstrated capabilities to manage own workload and make informed decisions in the absence of required information, working to tight and often changing timescales.
Values and Behaviours
Essential
- Commitment to and focused on quality, promotes high standards in all they do. Able to make a connection between their work and the benefit to patients and the public.
- Consistently thinks about how their work can help and support clinicians and frontline staff deliver better outcomes for patients. Values diversity and difference operates with integrity and openness. Works well with others, is positive and helpful, listens, involves, respects and learns from the contribution of others. Consistently looks to improve what they do, look for successful tried and tested ways of working, and also seeks out innovation.
- Actively develops themselves and supports others to do the same. Understanding of and commitment to equality of opportunity and good working relationships
- An ability to maintain confidentiality and trust. Adaptability, flexibility and ability to cope with uncertainty and change
Other
Essential
- Able to travel across various sites where applicable
Additional information
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
