Event Operations Coordinator

KERB; London; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

KERB is seeking an Events Operations Coordinator to enhance the operational department. Successful candidates will handle administration, maintain relationships with traders, and ensure events run smoothly, all while thriving in a high-energy team environment focused on hospitality and street food culture.

Benefits

Generous F&B discount

25 days holiday + birthday day off

Private Medical Insurance

Employee Assistance Program

Annual season ticket loan

Enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption leave

Qualifications

• Experience in hospitality and street food scene.
• Self-starter with initiative and drive.
• Skills in managing projects from start to finish.

Responsibilities

• Administrative tasks including creating documentation and securing bookings.
• Diary management and assisting Operations Manager during events.
• Monitor health & safety, licensing, and compliance across events.

Skills

Proactive

Excellent people skills

Strong attention to detail

Adaptable mindset

Knowledge of hospitality

Team player

Education

First Aid certification

Full UK driver’s license

Job description

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As a Events Operations Coordinator, you will be integral to the day to day running of
KERB Events operational department. You will look after administration tasks for the
Operations team and your own projects, as well as managing relationships with traders,
suppliers, and staff, and ensuring everything runs smoothly on-site. This role is suitable
for a motivated and talented events professional looking to gain hands-on experience in
operating and planning events and projects week-in, week-out. This is a high-energy,
high-reward role for someone who lives and breathes hospitality, thrives in a team, and
isn’t afraid to get their hands dirty.

What you'll be doing

• Administrative tasks to include:
  • Creating event documentation
  • Securing bookings for staff and equipment
  • Ensure health and safety checks are recorded, evaluated and documents are kept up to date
  • Event evaluations and debriefs with clients
• Diary management of the team
  • Assisting the Operations Manager on events, including planning and delivery
  • Assisting with till management, building, and troubleshooting
  • Managing small teams onsite
  • Monitor health & safety, licensing, and compliance across events
  • Act as a key point of contact for traders, suppliers, and on-site crew during events

What you'll bring to KERB

• Proactive, with the ability to manage projects from start to finish
• Experience in or strong knowledge of hospitality and the wider street food scene
• Bar experience
• Tech-savvy and quick to learn new technologies
• Excellent people skills, with the ability to engage clients and traders in a consultative manner, building lasting relationships
• Organised, dependable, and focused on getting things done – whatever the weather, you’re committed to making it work
• Self-starter with plenty of initiative
• Strong attention to detail
• A true team player
• Positive and adaptable mindset, with lateral thinking and a solution-oriented approach
• Willing to roll up your sleeves and contribute across different parts of the business when needed
• Genuine enthusiasm for street food and the London food scene
• First Aid or Health; Safety certification (bonus, not essential)
• Full UK driver’s license (preferred)

What you'll get by joining KERB

• Generous F&B discount across KERB food and drinks
• 25 days holiday (excluding bank holidays) + birthday day off
• Personal Wellbeing Allowance (Juno)
• Private Medical Insurance (Vitality)
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Annual season ticket loan
• Enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption leave after 2 years
• A London Living Wage and Disability Confident Committed employer
• A Best Companies accredited employer

Diversity & Inclusion
As part of our values, we are dedicated to fostering a culture of inclusivity at KERB. We actively celebrate our teams’ different abilities, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, faith, and gender. Everyone, from any background, is welcome and supported in their development at all stages in their journey with us. Applicants are encouraged to share with our People Team any accommodations or reasonable adjustments required during the recruitment process.

KERB is a business that powers other businesses. We focus on the incubation and growth of innovative, independent food businesses. We run brilliant street food markets, workshops, consultancy, bars, food halls in Central London and across the US and Germany and have developed a growing, successful corporate catering company, KERB Events Limited.

We are a food-obsessed and people-first company who believes that everyone with a bit of spark should have the opportunity to ignite it. Be it food entrepreneurs or team members, our mission is to create opportunity and joy through great food, from the KERB up.