Conference Manager (Not for Profit).
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Posted in - on July 5th, 2022
Membership Body (Not for Profit), London, Permanent
Our client an International Membership organisation based in Central London is looking for an experienced Conference Manager to take responsibility for all organisational and logistical aspects for eight specialist conferences per year to start ASAP.
Please note that some flexibility is required as there will be long working hours when on-site at Conferences. You need to be available to travel abroad when needed.
The main duties of the Conference Manager role are:
• Research, select and negotiate contracts for conference and social function venues.
• Prepare conference budgets, calculate registration fees and monitor spending
• Co-ordinate and compile the conference printed programmes with Committee Chairs, speakers and in-house departments
• Responsible for liaison with venues regarding food and beverage and audio visualrequirements including guaranteeing numbers
• Provide on-site staffing and be responsible for the smooth running of the conference
• Oversee conference registration and speaker management
• Oversight of database input, badges, lists of participants, speaker presentation communication
• To assist with general email and telephone queries.
• Annual conference – assist with general registration queries, amendments and cancellations, social function ticketing, badge outputs and onsite staffing when required
• Adherence to corporate ethos at all times
• Customer focused
Skills and experience
• Be educated to a minimum of A level standard
• Have a background in Conference organisation
• Work with a helpful, friendly, positive, outgoing attitude & be customer focused
• A good telephone manner and the ability to deal with people of different nationalities
• Strong attention to detail
• Computer literate and have good working knowledge of packages eg. Word, Excel, Outlook and Databases
• Good times management/organisation and flexible attitude
This is a great opportunity….Please click here and Apply Now!
Due to the large number of applications that we receive, only shortlisted applicants will be contacted.
Val Wade Recruitment are actively looking for applicants from underrepresented communities, and pride ourselves as an equal opportunities’ employer and agency.
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