Campaigns and Events Manager – Maternity Cover – 13-month FTC

Campaigns and Events Manager – Maternity Cover 13 Month FTC

Closing date Friday 19 July 2024

As a Campaign and Events Manager, you will play a key role in maximising the ECITB external profile and presence to support the delivery of the ECITB’s strategic objectives. By planning and executing marketing campaigns, supporting thematic leads, and driving our content creation efforts. Your creativity and strategic thinking will be essential in showcasing ECITB’s initiatives and products.

You will manage the planning and delivery of ECITB’s key corporate events, as well as regional and external appearances, ensuring every event is a success. Your organisational skills will be crucial in creating impactful and engaging experiences for our stakeholders. You will also oversee the internal communications plan; you will ensure timely and effective delivery of messages that keep our team informed and engaged. In addition, you will work closely with the Head of Careers and Inclusion to deliver new entrant campaigns and develop future communications strategies, helping to attract and retain top talent while advancing our inclusion initiatives.

Join us and contribute to the success of ECITB through your expertise in marketing, event management, and strategic communications.

For more information about the role and its responsibilities, view the role profile below.

View Campaigns and Events Manager – Maternity Cover role profile

About you

• Degree level in a relevant subject.
• ​​Experience working in government (national or local), parliament, PR or for an advocacy/lobbying organisation or charity.
• ​​Experience working either in a campaign or an events management role, or both.
• ​​Proficient and creative user of software such as Canva, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and Premier Pro.
• ​​Highly competent with WordPress and experience in maintaining websites.
• ​ ​Ability to lead, inspire and motivate others, ensuring effective delivery through your team and nurturing their professional development.
• ​​Excellent interpersonal skills and an ability to work effectively across teams.
• First-rate written and oral communication. Ability to quickly grasp complex issues and communicate them succinctly and clearly in a range of formats to expert and non-expert audiences.
• Excellent negotiating and persuading skills. Ability to interact confidently with senior stakeholders and secure buy-in.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Experience in managing and delivering PR and parliamentary events is desirable.
• Project management of non-technical projects with demonstrable ability to manage stakeholders.
• Strong IT skills, including Microsoft Office, social media platforms and graphic presentation packages such as Canva.
• Experience in evaluating campaign and/or public affairs activities.
• An understanding of or interest in the engineering construction industry.
• Ability to anticipate longer-term changes, threats, and opportunities for the ECITB, identifying and evaluating risk effectively.
• Prior experience working on UK skills policy and understanding wider labour market issues is desirable. ​

What we offer

• Laptop and mobile phone provided.
• 37.5 hours p/week with daily flexi-start and finish.
• 25 days holiday including Christmas closure, rising to 30 over the first 5 years’ service.
• Generous pension scheme via salary sacrifice.
• Cycle to work and e-car lease schemes.
• Employee Assistance Programme.
• Enhanced maternity/ paternity pay, and leave.
• Home office set-up assistance.