Events Executive (12 months FTC)
Company
Location
Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Posted At
12/20/2024
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Description
Department: Communications
Employment Type: Fixed Term Contract
Location: Edinburgh
Compensation: £25,500 - £30,000 / year
Description
Our Events Team
FreeAgent’s Events team forms part of a wider communications team that includes PR and social media experts, video specialists, campaign managers and email specialists. We work closely together to make sure our efforts are joined up and our work is the best it can be. We pride ourselves on our creative and supportive environment - it’s fast paced at times, but it’s always fun!
The role
We’re looking for a highly motivated and organised Events Executive to join our Events team for a period of 12 months covering an internal secondment. You'll gain valuable experience while supporting our growth plans by planning and organising events that engage and entice new customers to join FreeAgent.Day to day your role will involve:
Working closely with relevant event managers, you’ll be responsible for supporting the FreeAgent strategy for growth by delivering events for small businesses, accountants and FreeAgent recruitment. This role will also work closely with our Chief Marketing Officer, in order to deliver internal FreeAgent meetings and events.
Events
We believe in a strong work-life balance, we don’t work long hours (35 hour working week), and we have a fabulous Edinburgh HQ expertly designed for collaboration including high-quality A/V equipment to provide a great experience for distributed teams.
At FreeAgent, we support each other and operate a no-blame culture. Our mindset is: work hard, be nice to people, and the rest will sort itself out!
Work pattern for this role
This is a fixed term contract for 12 months, working full time (Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm) with occasional evening work when hosting events in our office.
This role will be based in our Edinburgh office, however there will be an opportunity to adopt hybrid working, under an agreed pattern of 2 days from the office and 3 days at home each week. Working from home is second nature to us as we have been championing remote working for 17 years.
You 🙌
You'll enjoy variety in your role and be comfortable working quickly and independently. Self motivated, you’ll have an excellent eye for detail, alongside great interpersonal and listening skills. Naturally you'll have an interest in keeping up to date with what is trending in the world of events, with a flair for thinking “outside the box”.
Ideally you'll have:
Annual starting salary of £25,500 - £30,000 per annum depending on experience.
Our starting salaries typically leave some opportunity for growth within the band as salaries are linked to performance expectations to nurture our culture of fairness, learning and development.
We pride ourselves on creating a fantastic place to work, with benefits and perks including (but not limited to!) the following:
About FreeAgent
FreeAgent aims to remove the stress and pain of dealing with business finances. From the very beginning in 2007, our aim was to create a product that would make an impact and improve the lives of micro-businesses in the UK. Now FreeAgent is one of the UK's most popular online accounting software providers, with over 200,000 customers.
Not to blow our own horn … but in 2024 we won the UK Customer Experience silver award for 'Customers at the Heart of Everything'. ICB LUCA Awards also named FreeAgent the 'Friendliest Software of the Year' in 2024 for the fifth time (following wins in 2019, 2020, 2022 and 2023). The list could go on!
From hiring our very first employee back in 2008, we’ve grown to over 250 employees who all share the same vision and values. Find out more about what it's like to work here on our Life at FreeAgent blog. If you still have questions, email talent@freeagent.com
FreeAgent is an equal opportunities employer, and we invest in our people and culture to ensure we have a happy, diverse and high-performing team. We strongly encourage applications from people with varied backgrounds and perspectives. All applicants are considered for employment without attention to ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, family or parental status.
We hope the detail in our job advertisements is informative but not limiting. Research shows, and we’ve observed, that underrepresented groups are less likely to apply for a role without meeting all of the criteria listed. If this feels relatable we’d encourage you to apply, even if you think there may be areas for development.
Employment Type: Fixed Term Contract
Location: Edinburgh
Compensation: £25,500 - £30,000 / year
Description
Our Events Team
FreeAgent’s Events team forms part of a wider communications team that includes PR and social media experts, video specialists, campaign managers and email specialists. We work closely together to make sure our efforts are joined up and our work is the best it can be. We pride ourselves on our creative and supportive environment - it’s fast paced at times, but it’s always fun!
The role
We’re looking for a highly motivated and organised Events Executive to join our Events team for a period of 12 months covering an internal secondment. You'll gain valuable experience while supporting our growth plans by planning and organising events that engage and entice new customers to join FreeAgent.Day to day your role will involve:
Working closely with relevant event managers, you’ll be responsible for supporting the FreeAgent strategy for growth by delivering events for small businesses, accountants and FreeAgent recruitment. This role will also work closely with our Chief Marketing Officer, in order to deliver internal FreeAgent meetings and events.
Events
- Creating clear and achievable objectives for each event, and work with the appropriate teams to enable them to be met
- Ensuring that all event products including stands, literature and merchandise is current and source replacements where necessary
- Researching and assessing costs for events
- Quickly hit the ground running and rapidly becoming fluent in how to set up and run webinars for all sectors of the business
- Making bookings, where appropriate, for various items, eg, venues, AV requirements, etc
- Keeping all interested parties up to date on bookings, costs and what is required of internal attendees
- Ensuring all necessary items are in place in advance of the event, and organise collection and receipt of items back into storage
- Monitoring feedback from internal and external people after each event to evaluate the event and to ensure opportunities are maximised at future events
- Being responsible for the monitoring of standard merchandise for everyday use which is held in house and outside at a handling house
- Creating a rolling learning plan for the comms team, which will include our monthly learning days
- Organising and administering pre/post event requirements for learning days for the communications team
- Organising logistics and agendas for internal and external Comms team meetings, offsites, and team bonding
- Supporting the CMO with adhoc meeting arrangements and administration
We believe in a strong work-life balance, we don’t work long hours (35 hour working week), and we have a fabulous Edinburgh HQ expertly designed for collaboration including high-quality A/V equipment to provide a great experience for distributed teams.
At FreeAgent, we support each other and operate a no-blame culture. Our mindset is: work hard, be nice to people, and the rest will sort itself out!
Work pattern for this role
This is a fixed term contract for 12 months, working full time (Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm) with occasional evening work when hosting events in our office.
This role will be based in our Edinburgh office, however there will be an opportunity to adopt hybrid working, under an agreed pattern of 2 days from the office and 3 days at home each week. Working from home is second nature to us as we have been championing remote working for 17 years.
You 🙌
You'll enjoy variety in your role and be comfortable working quickly and independently. Self motivated, you’ll have an excellent eye for detail, alongside great interpersonal and listening skills. Naturally you'll have an interest in keeping up to date with what is trending in the world of events, with a flair for thinking “outside the box”.
Ideally you'll have:
- previous experience of booking and organising events from both exhibitor and host perspective
- previous experience working and collaborating as part of a team
- excellent time management skills and the ability to work to deadlines
- the ability to think on your feet and make quick decisions under pressure
Annual starting salary of £25,500 - £30,000 per annum depending on experience.
Our starting salaries typically leave some opportunity for growth within the band as salaries are linked to performance expectations to nurture our culture of fairness, learning and development.
We pride ourselves on creating a fantastic place to work, with benefits and perks including (but not limited to!) the following:
- 33 days holiday (and an extra day for each year you're with us)
- Flexible/hybrid working
- Private health care
- Life assurance
- 5% matched pension contributions
- Summer 4 day weeks (giving you 8 additional days off!)
- Buy-as-you-earn share schemes
- Sabbatical leave (unpaid)
- Cycle to work scheme
- Wellness webinars
- Focused learning time and learning budgets
- Volunteering day
About FreeAgent
FreeAgent aims to remove the stress and pain of dealing with business finances. From the very beginning in 2007, our aim was to create a product that would make an impact and improve the lives of micro-businesses in the UK. Now FreeAgent is one of the UK's most popular online accounting software providers, with over 200,000 customers.
Not to blow our own horn … but in 2024 we won the UK Customer Experience silver award for 'Customers at the Heart of Everything'. ICB LUCA Awards also named FreeAgent the 'Friendliest Software of the Year' in 2024 for the fifth time (following wins in 2019, 2020, 2022 and 2023). The list could go on!
From hiring our very first employee back in 2008, we’ve grown to over 250 employees who all share the same vision and values. Find out more about what it's like to work here on our Life at FreeAgent blog. If you still have questions, email talent@freeagent.com
FreeAgent is an equal opportunities employer, and we invest in our people and culture to ensure we have a happy, diverse and high-performing team. We strongly encourage applications from people with varied backgrounds and perspectives. All applicants are considered for employment without attention to ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, family or parental status.
We hope the detail in our job advertisements is informative but not limiting. Research shows, and we’ve observed, that underrepresented groups are less likely to apply for a role without meeting all of the criteria listed. If this feels relatable we’d encourage you to apply, even if you think there may be areas for development.
Advertise with us.
Please contact: hello@huntukvisasponsors.com
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