Venues & Events Assistant Manager

About the Role

To coordinate the annual Students Union Events Calendar across our sites. To research, coordinate and produce high quality events and activities for our student body. To coordinate and deliver events that appeal to our student groups who are less engaged. To ensure our events pages on our website and our social media outlets are kept up to date and are relevant. To manage licensed trade events when called upon and assist with the development

About You

We are looking for a highly driven, organised and operationally excellent licensed trade and events manager to be a key part of our Venues & Events Team at QMSU. The successful candidate will need to be able to demonstrate an ability to operationally support 2 of our sites, Drapers Bar & Kitchen and Griff Bat & Kitchen operations as this is integral to the role, with some licensed trade events for events at other sites including Chislehurst and Charterhouse Square.

As a multi-site operator with 50 student staff, the Venues & Events Assistant Manager should have excellent interpersonal skills with an ability to build, engage and manage relationships with a wide variety of people. They should have a keen eye for detail and thrive in a fast-paced environment. Applicants would need to be able to be operationally focused and willing to work a mixture of days and nights, including some weekends, as and when necessary.

About the Department

Queen Mary Students’ Union (QMSU) is a membership organisation that is the voice of all Queen Mary students. QMSU also provide a number of commercial services including a gym, events, shops, licensed venues & hospitality. This role will be responsible for developing and coordinating events across all 3 campuses, Mile End, Whitechapel & Charterhouse.

QMSU Services Limited is the wholly-owned subsidiary of the charity (QMSU – the Students’ Union). Carrying on the business as a commercial social purpose company, the services are provided principally for students, staff, and guests of the University.

About Queen Mary

At Queen Mary University of London, we believe that a diversity of ideas helps us achieve the previously unthinkable.

Throughout our history, we’ve fostered social justice and improved lives through academic excellence. And we continue to live and breathe this spirit today, not because it’s simply ‘the right thing to do’ but for what it helps us achieve and the intellectual brilliance it delivers.

We continue to embrace diversity of thought and opinion in everything we do, in the belief that when views collide, disciplines interact, and perspectives intersect, truly original thought takes form.

Benefits

We offer competitive salaries, access to a generous pension scheme, 30 days’ leave per annum (pro-rata for part-time/fixed-term), a season ticket loan scheme and access to a comprehensive range of personal and professional development opportunities. In addition, we offer a range of work life balance and family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, and campus facilities including an on-site nursery at the Mile End campus.

Queen Mary’s commitment to our diverse and inclusive community is embedded in our appointments processes. Reasonable adjustments will be made at each stage of the recruitment process for any candidate with a disability. We are open to considering applications from candidates wishing to work flexibly.