Job Description:
Events Co-ordinator, Remote (UK wide)
Important: Please only apply if you have 6 months to 2 years recent experience working in events.
We seek a friendly, organised, event-loving person to join our growing team to coordintate our popular B2B events.
What’s the role?
- Help create all events on our website, Eventbrite and Facebook
- Help promote events via social media
- Calls and emails to invite potential guests
- Help create unique event graphics using participant logos
- Firm-up registrations via email and voice calls
- Guest management: cancellations, dietary requirements etc
- Supplier liaison with event joining details
- Liaison with Partnership team – making sure all suppliers are up to date
- Name badge creation and management
- Venue liaison and main point of contact: menus, final numbers, event format
- In-person attendance at 30+ events a year including hosting, presenting, sponsor liaison
- Capture footage of each event and share on social media
- Post-event follow-up, surveys, data provision etc
- Assist on any other events as needed
- Attendance at trade events as required
- Regular meetings with line manager to update them on events
What you’ll need
- Highly organised, low-stress approach to handling many events at different stages
- Firm, professional liaison with 3rd party venue teams to ensure smooth event delivery
- Friendly, positive, ‘can do’ attitude to ensure guest and sponsor satisfaction
- Ability and enthusiasm to travel solo around the UK
- IT and social media savvy
- Outgoing personality, comfortable hosting events with warmth and humour
- B2B events and or travel trade experience preferred but not essential
- Ideally you are located in the Midlands or London with easy access to the UK rail network
- Between February and November you will be required to stay overnight for 2 days a week, travelling the throughout the UK.
Benefits
- Flexible working
- 100% homeworking
- Company pension
- Private healthcare
- Sick pay
- Opportunity to attend events, conferences and fam trips in UK and overseas
Who are we?
Travel Gossip’s purpose is to support a strong and successful travel industry with travel agents at the heart of everything we do.
Our vision is to be the go-to platform for the UK travel industry, to be the largest and most active community, connecting the travel industry through engaging solutions.
We’re on a mission to elevate both travel agents and suppliers in our community by providing the knowledge, networks, and opportunities to boost their travel sales.
Delivering an unbeatable portfolio of social media, online and face-to-face events, Travel Gossip ensures brand receives high-quality engagement and reach within the UK travel industry.
Travel Gossip is an adventurous, innovative, supportive company coined the heart of the travel industry, and we recently won the Travel Trade Engagement award at the prestigious Travel Marketing Awards.
Travel Gossip is work-from-home based and we’re seeking an individual with exceptional drive and enthusiasm who will relish working in a fast-paced, competitive sector.