UE06 £29,619 - £34,308 per annum

College of Arts Humanities and Social Sciences/Edinburgh Futures Institute/Marketing & Communications

Full-time, 35 hours per week

Open-ended contract

We are looking for an Events Coordinator to join our growing event team at the Edinburgh Futures Institute.

The Opportunity:

This is a great opportunity to support the development, management and delivery of Edinburgh Futures Institute events. You will have a strong planning and project management focus, a good background in event delivery and be ready to hit the ground running, and help us deliver a wide range of public event that connect the University of Edinburgh with local audiences, staff, students and the wider world! You’ll join a dynamic and friendly team and work in a supportive and learning environment.

Your skills and attributes for success:

• Excellent project planning and organisation skills
• Excellent communication skills
• Customer service focus
• Team player
• Fast-paced problem solver

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As a valued member of our team you can expect:

An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work. We give you support, nurture your talent and reward success. You will benefit from a competitive reward package and a wide range of staff benefits, which includes a generous holiday entitlement, a defined benefits pension scheme , staff discounts, family-friendly initiatives , flexible working and much more. Click to access our staff benefits page (opens new browser tab) for further information and use our reward calculator to find out the total value of pay and benefits provided.

Edinburgh Futures Institute is a new part of the University of Edinburgh, which delivers and creates new activity and events, and which values innovation and experiment. We aim to deliver events and experiences that match our values and ambitions.

EFI is part of the College of Arts Humanities and Social Sciences and is a cross-University institute. We work with Schools and departments across the University including Edinburgh Innovations and the other Data Driven Innovation (DDI) Hubs.

We work on a broad range of events, from talks and partner events with business organisations, with corporate-level values of production, to festivals and student-facing activities with high levels of participation, speakers, experience and branding.

It is essential that the post holder recognise and embrace the aims and values of EFI and demonstrates this on a daily basis by delivering effective and professional services.

Given the job purpose and the responsibilities of this post, it is important that the post holder recognises that they will be required to undertake out of hours working and ‘off site’ working.

The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education. We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality.

Interviews will be held on 19 and 20 January 2023.

If invited for interview you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on our right to work webpages (opens new browser tab) .

The University is able to sponsor the employment of international workers in this role. If successful, an international applicant requiring sponsorship to work in the UK will need to satisfy the UK Home Office’s English Language requirements and apply for and secure a Skilled Worker Visa.