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Base pay

£39,644 to £48,394 per annum

Full time

Permanent

Hybrid – UAL High Holborn / Home

The role

University of the Arts London is seeking an experienced Events Coordinator to design and deliver inclusive, high-quality education events that reflect UAL’s commitment to collaboration, professional growth and teaching excellence.

Reporting to the Staff Engagement Manager, you will play a key part in delivering events and shaping a programme of activities that connects your colleagues with UAL’s learning and teaching development agenda, ensuring every event maximises impact, engagement and attendee experience.

With a focus on operational delivery, you will manage logistics, liaise with event leads and coordinate delivery teams to ensure the swift and smooth delivery of events. You will anticipate needs from both staff and visitor perspectives, recognise resource gaps and areas for improvement, as well as identify roles to be recruited through Arts Temps.

You will also collaborate with the Content Coordinator to analyse feedback, monitor engagement and continuously evolve UAL’s events offer.

About you

This role is an excellent opportunity for someone who thrives in fast-paced, people-focused environments, and brings creativity and initiative to problem solving.

You will have demonstrable experience of events management and delivery (ideally within a cultural or higher education setting), combined with strong project management expertise.

Equally important is your ability to design and coordinate an engaging programme of Learning and Teaching activities for academic and professional staff at all levels. You will also manage and coordinate a directorate events service, delivering a range of objectives while ensuring high standards of quality and consistency.

Requirements

• Demonstrable experience of events management and delivery (ideally within a cultural or higher education setting).
• Strong project management expertise.
• Ability to design and coordinate an engaging programme of Learning and Teaching activities for academic and professional staff at all levels.
• Experience in managing and coordinating a directorate events service.

Organisation

We are UAL

University of the Arts London (UAL) generates and inspires the creativity the world needs for a better future. Since 1842, our colleges have been defining creative education. With curiosity, imagination and intent we make work which creates lasting change for people and our planet. London is core to who we are, a place where we meet and share ideas with people from different backgrounds and cultures. Our creative network influences learning, culture, industry and society on a global scale. Our academics and practitioners deliver creative education and inspire new ways of thinking through research and innovation. We work with students at every level from pre-degree and short courses to postgraduate and online learning, enabling them to build the careers they want. Together, we are a community of makers, thinkers, pioneers and storytellers redesigning the future.

EEO statement

UAL is committed to creating diverse and inclusive environments for all staff and students to work and learn – a university where we can be ourselves and reach our full potential. We offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements and Staff Support Networks. We welcome applicants from diverse backgrounds, including race, disability, age, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion and belief, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, and caring responsibility.