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Event Manager (Assessment)

We are seeking a highly organised, results driven individual to join our Trainee Pharmacist Assessment team and play a leading role in delivering high-profile national assessment events that help shape the future of pharmacy.

Interview dates: 16 – 17 September 2025 (GPhC offices)

Salary: Up to£50,000 per annum, depending on skills and experience, plus benefits

Location: Canary Wharf, London (Hybrid working approach)

Hours: 35 hours per week, from 9.00 to 5.00, Monday to Friday

The Role

This is a newly created role at the heart of a newly combined team and presents a unique opportunity to use your event management skills in a role that directly impacts public safety and supports the next generation of pharmacists. You will be at the heart of ensuring assessments are run to the highest standards, are fair for candidates, and are professionally delivered across the UK.

You will oversee the end-to-end planning and delivery of more than 80 registration assessment events across the UK twice a year. These events are the final step for trainee pharmacists to demonstrate their readiness to join the profession, making this role vital to public safety and the reputation of the GPhC.

This role is subject to a basic Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check as part of our pre-employment due diligence.

The successful applicant will:

Play a leading role in planning and delivering one of the most high-profile events in pharmacy, ensuring candidates have a smooth and professional experience using your organisation, event and project management skills.
Possess experience of building, developing and managing the performance of teams and individuals, including the ability to motivate, influence and persuade others.
Be experienced in producing high quality minutes, reports and policies, with the ability to manipulate data accurately.
Possess good listening skills with the ability to distill complex information into clear, actionable insights, while taking personal ownership to deliver key tasks and objectives.
Bring energy and drive to improve operational efficiency, effectiveness, productivity, and customer service - while delivering real, measurable results.
Have an unwavering commitment to equality, diversity, and inclusion.

Benefits when joining our team

In return for their commitment and enthusiasm, employees can expect a rewarding and challenging work environment, good work-life balance and workload plus an excellent benefits package that includes:

30 days holiday (plus bank holidays) with the option to buy an additional 5 days.
Flexible working arrangements.
Career breaks and sabbaticals.
Life assurance, season ticket loan, bike loan and many more.

About the GPhC

We are a respected regulatory body that regulates pharmacists, pharmacy technicians and pharmacies in Great Britain. We work to assure and improve standards of care for people using pharmacy services.

Our organisation has a long-term vision and a desire for highly skilled and specialist staff. We are committed to providing workforce learning and development opportunities.

We have adopted a hybrid working approach which combines office and home working. From January 2026, our hybrid approach will include a requirement for staff to attend the office for a minimum of six days per month.

We are proud of our diverse and inclusive culture and are committed to holding ourselves to the same standards we expect of others.

Applying for this role

If you feel you have the required experience and skills and would like to join us, please complete our application form, including the supporting statement section explaining how you meet each of the criteria for the role, and where you found out about this vacancy.

Please note that applications without a supporting statement will not be considered.

Please consult the knowledge and skills section of the job description document to help you prepare your application.

We welcome applications from all sections of the community

We are committed to promoting equality, valuing diversity and being inclusive in all our work as a health professions regulator.

Whilst we are proud to be members of the Disability Confident Scheme, you don’t have to have a disability for us to discuss reasonable adjustments. Please let us know if you need any support during the application or interview process and we will happily discuss this with you.

As part of your application for this role, please complete our equal opportunities and diversity monitoring section. This is optional and you don't have to complete it; however it provides us with useful information for monitoring and reporting purposes and is strictly confidential. The information you provide on this form will not form part of any selection process and will not be shared with the selection panel.

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