The Museum is looking for a Public Events Manager.
Location: London
Salary: 28,757.74
Employment Contract Type: Permanent - Full-time
Closing Date: 15/06/2022 11:59 pm
Interview Date: 23/06/2022
About the role
Public Events Manager
Permanent
Full time
London
£28,757.74 per annum
The Royal Air Force Museum is a national museum, a Government non-departmental public body (NDPB) and a registered charity, with two sister sites at London and Midlands. Our purpose is to share the RAF story, past, present and future – using the stories of its people and our collections in order to engage, inform and inspire. Our Vision is to inspire everyone with the RAF story – the people who shape it and its place in our lives.
We are pleased to announce a fantastic opportunity to work with our dynamic events team. We are looking for an experienced programmer and event professional to deliver exciting and popular events at our London Site.
Working in a small and friendly team, the role will involve managing and delivering a full and busy year of dynamic events. You will also use your creativity to grow and develop the programme in future years.
Candidates must have experience in delivering large scale public facing events as they will be responsible for events such as the Hendon Pageant, Spitfire Summer Events Programme, Pillows and Pilots Sleepovers, Spitfire 10k and many more.
The ideal candidate will be creative, highly organised, flexible, pro-active and have lots of initiative and energy. Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with a high standard of both verbal and written English are essential requirements as is a high level of client service. Strong proficiency in Microsoft Word and Excel is also required. The post holder will be required to work weekends, early mornings, evenings and occasionally overnight as necessary.
The post will be based at our London site. Travel between the Museum’s sites will be required from time to time.
To apply:
• Please provide your current CV with a supporting statement which provides specific examples which demonstrate how you meet the competencies in the person specification. Please note that the shortlisting process will give greater weighting to the essential technical competencies. Please send the completed documents to jobs@rafmuseum.org with ‘Public Events Manager’ on the subject line.
• Closing date for applications: 15 June 2022
• Interviews will take place on: 23 June 2022
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