Homes England
Events and Engagement Officer
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Job Summary
We're looking for an enthusiastic and highly organised Events and Engagement Officer to join our Market Engagement team.
This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in delivering a diverse programme of high-profile conferences, stakeholder engagements and employee events that support our strategic objectives and strengthen relationships across the housing, regeneration and investment sectors.
The Market Engagement team is responsible for building and maintaining relationships with the organisations, partners and stakeholders that help us deliver our mission.
Through events, engagement activity and stakeholder communications, the team helps connect industry, investors, public sector partners and government with our work and priorities.
As Events and Engagement Officer, you'll help plan and deliver a range of national and regional events, creating opportunities to showcase our impact, share insight, support collaboration and strengthen relationships across the sector.
This is a varied and fast-paced role, offering the opportunity to work with senior leaders, external stakeholders and colleagues across Homes England and the National Housing Bank. You'll be involved in some of the sector's highest-profile events, including supporting our presence at UKREiiF, Homes England Live and MIPIM, alongside stakeholder roundtables, regional engagement events, conferences and internal colleague events.
Job Description
- Coordinate the planning and delivery of internal and external events, conferences and stakeholder engagement activities.
- Manage event logistics, ensuring events are delivered professionally, efficiently and in line with organisational policy objectives.
- Manage external speaking engagements and engagement activity across the organisation.
- Develop and maintain planning tools, event guidance and delivery documentation.
- Support the management of event budgets and supplier relationships, ensuring value for money and high-quality outcomes.
- Act as an ambassador for the Agency, building strong relationships with colleagues and external partners including Events Organisers.
- Support senior colleagues before, during and after events, ensuring a seamless experience for participants.
- Evaluate event performance, gathering insights and recommendations to improve future activity.
- Help develop consistent approaches, processes and tools for event delivery across the organisation.
- Produce reports, briefings and recommendations for senior stakeholders.
- Work collaboratively with colleagues and external partners to ensure engagement activity delivers against organisational priorities.
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Person specification
You'll be a proactive and organised individual who enjoys bringing people together and delivering exceptional experiences.
You'll be comfortable managing multiple priorities, working to deadlines and building productive relationships with a wide range of stakeholders.
You'll have strong attention to detail, excellent communication skills and a collaborative approach that helps teams work effectively together.
We're Looking For Someone Who Can Demonstrate
- Experience coordinating events, conferences and engagement activities.
- Excellent organisational and project management skills.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Experience working with a range of internal and external stakeholders.
- The ability to manage competing priorities and deliver to deadlines.
- Strong attention to detail and a commitment to delivering high-quality outcomes.
- A proactive and solutions-focused approach to problem-solving.
- Experience managing suppliers, venues and event logistics would be advantageous.
- Experience using CRM, stakeholder management or event management systems would be beneficial.
Benefits
- Holiday - Homes England offers all staff 33 days annual leave per year in addition to 8 statutory bank holidays.
- Working Flexibly - At Homes England we have a strong culture of flexible working and encourage all employees to have a healthy work/life balance. We offer a wide range of potential working patterns, including part time, job share and compressed hours. These need to be balanced with business needs so they will vary from job to job. If you would like to know more please speak to the Recruiting Manager.
- Health and Wellbeing - We offer health screening with Nuffield Proactive Health Clinics, a free Employee Assistance Programme which offers confidential support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week as well as access to Occupational Health.
- Professional Development - At Homes England we are committed to your continued professional and personal development with learning as one of our core values. We pay for one job-related professional membership subscription per year for our employees.
- Family Friendly Benefits - We offer an excellent range of family friendly benefits, for example, maternity, paternity, shared parental leave.
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Selection process details
- We would encourage all applicants to apply as soon as possible as we may close vacancies early should we receive a high number of applications.
- We also encourage you to apply using the full application option as opposed to quick apply, this is especially important if you would like to indicate to us that you would like to be considered under the disability confident scheme.
- Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
Security
Successful candidates must undergo a basic (or equivalent) criminal record check.
People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.
Nationality requirements
This Job Is Broadly Open To The Following Groups
- UK nationals
- nationals of the Republic of Ireland
- nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
- nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
- nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
- individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
- Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service
Contact point for applicants
Job Contact
- Name: Recruitment Team
- Email: Recruitmentinfo@homesengland.gov.uk
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