Marketing Events Lead

Location: Southwark
Salary: £33,671
Closing Date: 16/01/2024 23:59
Terms and Conditions: 35 hours, 1 FTE, Full Time, Permanent
Reference: SOUKB893488
Expiry Date: 16/01/2024 23:59

Southwark College and Lewisham College, part of NCG (a leading national provider of education and training), is looking to recruit a Marketing Events Lead. 

 

The Marketing Events Lead will work within the Marketing and Communications team to lead events and campaigns in London. The successful candidate will also deputise for the Marketing and Student Recruitment Manager, providing vital support with office management, business planning and project analysis.

 

The Marketing Events Lead will work closely with marketing leadership to shape and develop the College’s marketing and events strategy and roll-out of a new external and internal events programme at our Lewisham and Southwark campuses. The post holder will take up the role during an exciting time in our journey as we build new brands as part of one of the largest college groups in the UK. You will work within a supportive team to manage job requests, plan tasks, and allocate work and projects within the department to ensure deadlines are met.

 

You will possess excellent organisational skills and have experience of managing both large- and small-scale events and developing working relationships with stakeholders. Ability to show initiative and respond effectively to new projects is also essential.

Southwark College is a large further education college in London, offering an exciting range of work-focused courses that give our students the skills and experience they need to develop their employment potential. We provide a friendly, supportive learning environment where talent is nurtured.

We’re proud of our success in achieving excellent results and producing knowledgeable and successful students, but we’re built on our staff and our success is down to recruiting and retaining the best possible talent. Helping our young people and adults to fulfil their potential and often transform their lives through education requires dedication, patience and the ability to think differently. That’s why we set out to recruit staff with a genuine passion for further education and a commitment to ensuring all students achieve their potential, whatever barriers they need to overcome. 

We’d love you to join the team if you want to make a real difference to the lives of students, local employers and the wider Southwark community. In return, we’ll provide you with a range of development opportunities, benefits and support to help you fulfil your role.

Southwark College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff to share this commitment.

At Southwark College, our values are not just about what we do, but also about how we do things.

Our values underpin the culture and beliefs of our organisation, we expect all our staff to demonstrate behaviours in line with our core values.

1. Being both inclusive and diverse

2. Trusting and respecting our communities

3. Taking ownership whilst working collaboratively

4. Inspiring excellence and curiosity.

As part of the NCG Group, Southwark College offers an excellent benefits package, including generous holiday entitlement, access to the Teachers’ pension scheme (for teaching posts) or Local Government pension scheme (non-teaching posts), company sick pay, a cycle to work scheme and much more.

NCG seeks to promote and maintain an equal, diverse, inclusive and supportive environment for work and study that assists all members of our communities to reach their full potential. We are committed to achieving a truly representative workforce and therefore welcome applications from across the national and regional communities that we work with and serve.

To view Job Description, Person Specification and NCG Values Pack please click the document attachment at the bottom of this advert. No agency applications will be accepted.

NCG reserve the right to close the vacancy early.