Events and Communications Officer, PURPOSEFUL VENTURES

Guardian Jobs; London; On-site; GBP 31,000 - 36,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading organization, Martingale Foundation, is seeking an Events and Communications Officer to manage events and assist in recruitment for their scholarship program. The ideal candidate will have experience in event management and strong communication skills, alongside a commitment to enhancing social mobility in education.

Qualifications

• Experience in events delivery required.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.

Responsibilities

• Lead and quality assure all Martingale events.
• Assist in recruitment and assessment processes for scholarship applications.
• Disseminate recruitment materials to relevant institutions.

Skills

Event management

Communication

Attention to detail

Budget management

Project management

Job description

Events and Communications Officer, PURPOSEFUL VENTURES

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Events and Communications Officer, Martingale Foundation

Reports to: Communications Manager

Location: West London, currently operating an agile working policy with a minimum of two core days in the office (Tuesday and Thursday)

Employment Type: Permanent

Working Pattern: Full time - 37.5 hours per week

Closing date: 22nd June at 23:59

Annual Salary: £31,659 to £35,552

About the role:

As Martingale Foundation starts supporting its third cohort of Scholars, we need an organised, communications focused and proactive individual to grow our capacity in two significant areas of our work: our regular in-person events, and our recruitment and assessment process.

You will take the lead on, and quality assure, all Martingale events including our Welcome Dinner for new Scholars at the Royal Society, autumn assessment centres, regular training days for Masters and PhD students, our week-long summer residential retreats for Scholars, as well as events for current and potential funders and other stakeholders. You will also help secure high-profile speakers from relevant industries. While these events will be delivered in collaboration with other members of the team, you will bring your event management expertise to drive forward planning and delivery, and ensure these events are of the highest standards for Scholars and stakeholders.

You will also play a vital role in Martingale’s recruitment and admissions work. You will support the Communications Manager in the dissemination of Martingale recruitment materials to relevant universities, student societies, charities, and learned societies, to ensure a high number of applications to the Martingale Scholarship programme. You will work closely with the Programme Manager and Programme Officer to deliver well-run assessment centres and programme events across England and Scotland. You will also support the Communications Manager through producing high-quality content relating to Martingale events, to be distributed through our social media channels.

Key Requirements:

• Experience in events delivery.
• Right to work in the UK.
  
  
  

Experience and Skills:

• Delivering events and / or recruitment activities
• Budget management in relation to high profile events
• Liaising with external venues and suppliers
• Managing multiple projects/workstream and priorities simultaneously, while maintaining attention to detail and meeting deadlines
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to effectively communicate with diverse audiences. Experience communicating with university students, staff and academics is desirable
• Hard working, detail orientated, and systematic
• Working in a fast-paced working environment and/or a growing organisation
• Producing well written content for newsletters and other channels
• Social mobility expertise based on real-word experience of delivering social mobility initiatives, with a strong preference for experience improving social mobility in higher education (desirable)
• Experience using a CRM (desirable).
  
  
  

Personal Characteristics

• A commitment to Martingale’s mission to support postgraduate students from low-socioeconomic backgrounds
• Friendly and personable, able to build rapport and trusting relationships with applicants, Scholars and other stakeholders
• Creative and consistently seeking new opportunities for the organisation
• Excellent time management and ability to prioritise tasks independently
• Comfortable working in a rapidly growing and changing organisation with a degree of ambiguity – confident to create processes and ways forwards where they might not yet exist
• Hard working, adaptable, detail orientated, and systematic
• Inquisitive and curious, someone who wants to understand their colleagues’ work, learn from those around them, and develop themselves professionally
  
  
  

About Martingale Foundation:

Martingale Foundation exists to fund and support the next generation of STEM leaders. We believe that family income should not be a barrier to the pursuit of excellence, so our programmes focus on supporting students from low socioeconomic backgrounds.

Martingale is incubated by Purposeful Ventures who provide operational and strategic support. The Events and Communications Officer will be employed by Purposeful Ventures.

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