Senior Events Adviser (FTC)
Senior Events Adviser (FTC)
Financial Conduct Authority
London, England
Job ID : 6646715132535648524958616e46395049513d3d
Job Description :
Job title: Senior Events Advisor
FTC 10-12 months
Dept - Content and Channels
The team/department
Are you an experienced senior event professional experienced in designing and delivering corporate events?
The Events team within Communications leads the planning and delivery of FCA-hosted events for external stakeholders. Our event specialists use their strategic expertise to design events that achieve business and communications objectives, working collaboratively with subject matter experts across the organisation. We lead on events from roundtables for CEOs and webinars to multi-day conferences, roadshows, and international symposia.
Events are one of our key communications channels at the FCA. We frequently join up with Communications colleagues to ensure alignment across our communications activities and channels.
What you will be doing:
- Provide strategic events advice on new event enquiries from across the organisation, consulting with the business areas to advise if and how an event can achieve their objectives and desired outcomes, and meet the needs of their stakeholders
- Lead the planning and delivery of large, complex, high-profile events for external stakeholders, advising business areas on best practice and ensuring the right outcomes, including:
- Event strategy – advise business in how to leverage events as an effective communications channel, devise the most suitable approach in the design and delivery of the event to achieve business objectives and outcome
- Event management – based on event requirements, create and implement the event planning timeline and manage event from conception to delivery
- Stakeholder management – advise business area as an event strategist, collaborate closely with internal stakeholders, and constructively challenge as required
- Financial management – compile cost illustrations, supplier contract management and invoicing, event budgeting and reconciliation
The skills and experience you will have:
- Knowledge of Supplier management – scoping event requirements, experienced in contract negotiations, familiarity of industry standards and best practice, ensure value for money and delivery of suppliers to the highest standards
- Marketing and promotion – create marketing plans including determining most appropriate FCA-owned and third-party channels, build bespoke event microsites and registration portal via Cvent
- Speaker management, including leading briefings and rehearsals
- Delegate communication and management
- Venue management, including site visits and selection, on-site management
- We are a signatory to the Government’s Disability Confident scheme. This means that we will offer an interview to disabled candidates entering under the scheme, should they meet the minimum criteria for a role. A minimum criterion needs to be measurable from reviewing a candidate’s CV. Exceptions may apply if due to the volume of applications we are not able to interview all eligible candidates who qualify under the scheme.
Minimum:
- Significant experience in a senior corporate event planning role with experience of advising and managing senior internal stakeholders
- Working knowledge of Cvent
- Experience of planning and delivering virtual and hybrid events
- Familiarity with webinar production and virtual event technology
Essential:
- Excellent stakeholder management skills – offer constructive challenge, influence senior stakeholders
- Strategic thinking and sound judgement – able to see ‘the big picture’, make critical decisions, and recognise potential issues
- Excellent project management skills – highly organised with the ability to make progress at a rapid pace, managing competing demands and meeting tight deadlines in a rapidly changing environment.
- Ability to remain calm under pressure, think on their feet and problem-solve
- Highly motivated and able to demonstrate high quality and timely deliverables
- Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work collaboratively across organisation
Desirable:
- Comfortable with flexible working patterns to meet event requirements
What you get from the role:
- Develop experience in how events can be strategically leveraged into an effective communications and engagement tool
- Gain experience in events aimed at financial services firms and industry bodies, government institutions, academia, international regulators, members of the public
- Gain exposure across all areas of FCA
- Gain experience in communicating financial services regulation
- Contribute to FCA’s overarching objectives of protecting consumers, enhancing market integrity, and promoting effective competition
- The salary range in London is up to £64,000 per annum plus a competitive benefits package, including a non-contributory pension
- The salary range in Edinburgh & Leeds is up to £60,000 per annum plus a competitive benefits package, including a non-contributory pension
- This role is graded Senior Associate - Corporate
Our competitive Flexible Benefits Scheme gives you the opportunity to create a personalised benefits package, tailored to suit your lifestyle. You can use this allowance to purchase additional benefits such as dental or cycle to work or you have the option top up your base salary by taking this as cash. Additional information on the core benefits you will receive can be found
here
.
About the FCA:
The FCA regulates the conduct of 50,000 firms in the UK to ensure our financial markets are honest, fair and competitive. We do this to make sure markets work well for individuals, businesses and the economy as a whole. For more information on what we do, our three-year strategy can be found
here.
The FCA's Values & Diversity:
Our ambition is to create a diverse and inclusive workplace that reflects the society we serve, helping us to be a better regulator
Flexible working:
We welcome applications from candidates who are looking for flexible arrangements. Many of our staff work flexibly including working from home, staggered hours, and job shares. We can’t promise to give you exactly what you want but we won’t judge you for asking.
Multilocation & hybrid working:
As part of the FCA’s on-going commitment to develop our national presence, most of our vacancies are now open to working in our Edinburgh, Leeds, and London offices. This means that as part of the application process you will be able to select your preference of which office location you would like to work from. The FCA also supports hybrid working which means you will be able to work from home up to 60% of the time over a month with the remainder of your time in one of our three office locations.
Useful information:
- Applications for this role close on at midnight on Wednesday 15th March 2023
- Got a question? If you are internal and interested learning more about the role, please contact Darren Chambers atDarren.Chambers@fca.org.uk
- If you are external and interested learning more about the role please contact Ifrah.Azam@fca.org.uk
Company Details :
Name : Financial Conduct Authority
CEO : Nikhil Rathi
Headquarter : London, United Kingdom
Revenue : Unknown / Non-Applicable
Size : 1001 to 5000 Employees
Type : Non-profit Organisation
Primary Industry : National Services & Agencies
Sector Name : Government & Public Administration
Year Founded : 2013
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