Event Manager - Centre for Academic Persistence

Arden University; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

Arden University seeks an Event Manager for the Centre for Academic Persistence to oversee student orientation activities and enhance the student experience. This role involves event planning, staff management, and budget oversight, ensuring successful outcomes for new students.

Benefits

30 days holiday + bank holidays

Generous pension plan

Private Medical Insurance

Access to Perkbox benefits

Free Arden course for employees

Qualifications

• Experience in organising complex events with over 2000 students.
• Proven ability to lead and motivate staff.

Responsibilities

• Ensure smooth running of academic persistence initiatives and events.
• Support budget planning and implement new student orientation strategy.

Skills

Organising events

Project management

Staff management

Budget management

Negotiation

Job description

Salary: £40,000 - £45,000 per annum

Employment type: Permanent

Hours per week: 37

Reporting into: Director

Department: Academic Persistence

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This role operates a hybrid working model that will require some travel into our Coventry head office or various campuses for events. Our working model arrangements are a non-contractual benefit so please note that an Arden work location is added to our employment contracts.

Travel will be required into the following locations:

• Coventry head office
• Birmingham campus
• Leeds campus
• Nottingham campus
• Manchester campus
• London area (Tower Hill, Holborn & Ealing)

Note. Some travel toexternal venues in the cities listed above in new student orientation week (every 10 weeks).

About Arden University:

We are an aspirational and multi-award-winning university, delivering rapid growth with ambitious plans to disrupt the HE sector through our passion for innovation and digital education. Our vision is to become the first-choice university for career-focused lifelong learners worldwide, ensuring that everyone, everywhere can access higher education.

There has never been a more exciting time to join Arden University, as we expand into new disciplines, forge worldwide partnerships, and expand our locations.

About our Department:

Our Centre for Academic Persistence is focussed on helping and supporting students through their first-year university journey. We are a large team who are passionate about supporting students realise their potential. We do this through several different programmes including our Foundation Year; supporting the CertHE programme; our On Track initiative for students with level-progression support or assistance resitting or retaking modules; Pass First Time (Academic study skills to help pass courses) and the university new student orientation.

About the Opportunity:

The Event Manager for the Centre for Academic Persistence will ensure the smooth running and professionalism of any academic persistence initiatives in the Centre including new student orientation activities for all new Arden University students in the UK (Blended Learning and Distance learning, approximately 10,000 students per year). The post holder will ensure that these activities are innovative, student-centred, and a celebration of student success and achievement. You will beresponsible for fulfilling any of the centre’s other persistence activities which involve event planning, running and analysis. They will work alongside the Centre’s key leaders in the planning and delivery of new student orientation activities and events with a view of enhancing the student experience and identifying ways to improve the current systems and processes. You will beresponsible for supporting budget planning, contributing to, and implementing a new student orientation strategy with the Director of the Centre for Academic Persistence, that complements the wider aims and objectives of the university. The role is also responsible for student and staff management, internal and external suppliers, host management, logistics, print and communications

About You:

Essential skills / experience:

• Organising complex, medium tolarge-scale events with over 2000 students.

• Leading projects from planning through to delivery and evaluation.

• Managing staff and volunteers with proven ability to lead and motivate.

• Working closely with senior staff or leadership.

• Forecasting and managing project level budgets.

• Negotiating and working with a range of suppliers.
• Leading teams in a fast-paced environment to deliver successful outcomes.

Desirable Skills / Experience

• Proven experience of running student-related events.

Why Arden:

At Arden, you will become a part of a passionate and dedicated team who are committed to removing unnecessary barriers to learning and making education more accessible. Our people work hard to ensure our students journeys are the best they can possibly be, as such we want to reward our people with fantastic benefits. Employees benefit from:

• 30 days holiday + bank holidays on-top, and even a Christmas closure!
• A generous Aviva pension plan, company contributions starting from 7%
• SimplyHealth plan option
• Private Medical Insurance coverage (applies to certain job roles)
• Access to Perkbox benefits
• Study any Arden course for free, with a discount for all family and friends
• Plus, other excellent benefits
• Our ‘Golden Ticket’ which allows you to gift anyone in your life a free Arden education
  

Our Values:

Stand out, Progressive, Accessible, Resourceful, Kindness, reflect who we are as an institution, a team and as individuals. If they also reflect you and you are excited by the chance to be the driving, creative force within a growing business, we want to hear from you.

There has never been a more exciting time to join Arden University, as we expand into new disciplines and locations.

Closing Date: Wednesday 21st May(Midnight)

We reserve the right to close this vacancy before the specified closing date should we receive sufficient applications or in order to respond to business needs. In order to avoid missing an opportunity to apply please submit your application as early as possible.

If you are a current Arden student or have an upcoming course with us, you are not eligible to apply for Student Experience roles due to a conflict of interest related to system access.

Equity, Diversity & Inclusion:

Arden University is proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. This means that if you have a disability, as defined by the Disability Equality Act 2010, you may be guaranteed an interview if you meet the essential criteria for the role.

If you wish to be considered under this scheme, you can indicate via the application form below. By doing so, you are also consenting for this information to be shared with the hiring team. For more details on what qualifies as a disability under the Disability Equality Act 2010, please refer to the guidance here.

As an Equal Opportunity Employer we celebrate diversity and are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. Therefore, we make sure that our recruitment and selection processes never discriminate based upon people's age, disability, gender, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances, and actively welcome applications from all groups.

Sponsorship statement:

Please be aware that some roles may not meet the points requirement for a sponsored Skilled Worker visa under the points-based immigration system. However, we welcome applications from candidates who do not currently have the right to work in the UK but may be eligible for a visa through an alternative route.