Events Officer

Crown Commercial Service; Liverpool; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A government agency in Liverpool seeks a motivated Events Officer to manage diverse events. The role requires proven planning and organizational skills, and the candidate must have extensive experience in high-profile events management. This position offers a competitive salary and flexible working arrangements, with a commitment to supporting a varied events programme and facilitating stakeholder engagement.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Generous pension scheme

Performance-related bonus

Flexi time scheme

Minimum 25 days annual leave

Qualifications

• Proven planning experience with measurable operational results.
• Excellent organizational and networking abilities.
• Experience in engaging high-profile events planning.

Responsibilities

• Accountable for all aspects of event production.
• Manage events to time and budget ensuring value for money.
• Build awareness of target audiences.

Skills

Stakeholder Management

Event Planning

Negotiation

Organizational skills

Project Management

Marketing

Leadership Experience

Catering

Tools

HubSpot

Job description

Equal Opportunity

We are an equal‑opportunity employer and encourage applications from diverse candidates. The Civil Service Code sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

Overview

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Do you have a proven track record in producing events that provide return on investment? Do you have the passion to support a busy annual events programme? We have an exciting opportunity for a motivated and experienced Events Officer.

Events play a crucial role in helping tell our story to colleagues, customers and suppliers. From regional meetings, speaker sessions, exhibitions to full corporate conferences and internal engagement and awards we do it all.

Directorate Overview

The aim of the Customer Experience Directorate (CXD) is to embed a customer‑first mentality across CCS in all ways of working and at every point of customer interaction.

We bring the voice of the customer to CCS to help them find the right commercial solution for their needs, whether that is through effective marketing and communication or personalised account management.

An example of the breadth of scope for CXD is our work with the NHS last year to provide solutions for virtual wards.

Working in collaboration with NHS England we developed Spark (The Innovation Marketplace) to become the recommended route for NHS organisations to source virtual wards and remote monitoring services. This has allowed:

• over 100,000 patients to recover at home with hospital‑level care
• help speed up their recovery while freeing up hospital beds for patients who needed them most

Team Summary

You will be part of a small team of three reporting to the event & stakeholder engagement lead. The role sits within the marketing and communications function. We deliver a varied annual schedule of events that cover everything from speaker sessions, online events, conferences, exhibitions and internal staff events.

Responsibilities

• Accountable for all aspects of event production both face‑to‑face and virtually
• Scheduling, content planning, speaker acquisition, sponsors and delegate engagement
• Seeking out and advising on events opportunities that contribute to overall marketing targets
• Managing events to time and on budget ensuring value for money
• Using negotiation techniques to identify strategic partnerships and relationships that maximise low‑cost, no‑cost event opportunities
• Build a comprehensive awareness of our target audiences internally and externally
• Identifying and resolving risks and issues associated with events with the confidence to challenge leaders where necessary
• Confident in the use of data and insights to track and showcase return on investment
• Managing internal and external stakeholders

Regular UK travel required.

Willingness to travel across the county and work in a flexible way often outside of civil‑service core business hours for the purpose of event delivery.

Qualifications

• Proven planning experience with the ability to develop long‑term plans that translate into measurable operational results
• Excellent organisational, networking and relationship experience with the ability to negotiate, influence partners and stakeholders verbally and in writing providing expert advice and challenge
• Extensive experience of planning engaging high‑profile events including venue sourcing and budget management
• Working under pressure, managing competing priorities and tight targets with multiple different types of events in different stages of design and production at any one time

Success Profiles

Behaviours:

• Seeing the big picture
• Communicating and influencing
• Managing a quality service

Technical

Stakeholder Management, Marketing, Catering, Organizational skills, Hospitality Experience, Management Experience, HubSpot, Event Planning, Events Management, Project Management, Event Marketing, Leadership Experience, negotiation

Working arrangements

CCS is a flexible business with a smarter working model where our colleagues benefit from a mix of home and office working. Successful candidates are expected to work from one of the office locations listed. Our current office attendance approach requires a minimum of 26 days per quarter (approx 2 days per week) in CCS office locations or off‑site meetings with suppliers, customers, partners, networking / industry events.

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Generous pension scheme
• A discretionary non‑contractual performance‑related bonus
• Working remotely in addition to working in advertised office location
• Flexi time scheme (available for B1‑B6)
• Minimum 25 days annual leave to a maximum service‑related 30 days excluding bank holidays
• Explore fully how we will reward your work.