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Engagement and Events Executive
Annual Salary - £27,263
Hours per week (full time/ Part time) – 35 hours
34 days’ annual leave (full-time equivalent)
Thank you for your interest in the position of Engagement and Events Executive at Kent Students’ Union Trading Ltd (KUTL), the commercial arm of Kent Students’ Union.
We are a vibrant, student-led organisation with an exciting future ahead. After a challenging few years, we are growing from strength to strength with renewed focus and energy, working to amplify the voice of our members and ensure they have a fantastic student experience. Our new strategy outlines our priorities for the next two years and drives everything we do.
Students are the reason Kent Students’ Union exists.
We support them throughout their university journey, and our dedicated staff and volunteers work to enhance every aspect of their experience—whether that’s helping with their studies, supporting the practicalities of life, or providing opportunities for fun and connection.
Kent Students’ Union operates a range of services for students at the Canterbury Campus of the University of Kent, including retail shops, a bar, a café, a nightclub, and a children’s nursery.
We are excited to be re-launching our Give it a Go programme, which offers one-off events and activities designed to help our diverse student body build connections and feel settled.
Give It A Go (GIAG) is a programme of events open to all students at the University of Kent with the aim to provide a variety of activities for a broad range of students to try out. These could be craft sessions, sports, trips off campus and much more, we want to help students make connections, encouraging belonging, try something new, meet new people and develop their skills.
We also want to enhance the events we deliver for university open days and offer holder days to showcase why students should choose Kent. As a result, we are seeking someone who is innovative, creative, and experienced in delivering events—someone who is proactive, able to work independently, and confident collaborating across departments.
The postholder will be part of a flexible and dynamic team and will be required to work weekends and evenings as necessary to support open days and other events. They must therefore be adaptable and flexible in their approach to working hours.
How to apply: Application and Selection Process and Timetable
Applications Close: Monday 26 January 2026, 12 noon.
Interviews: Tuesday 3 February 2026
Applications
To apply: Please submit your application on our recruitment portal on our website. Please note that we do not accept CV only applications.
Please ensure that you pay particular attention in your application to detailing how your experience meets the requirements of the person specification and why you are interested in the position. When applying, please match your skills and experience as closely as possible to the Person Specification. This will be assessed at application and at interview.
Further Information and Questions
If you require further information, please contact:
Name - Max Weston
Job Title -Commercial Events Manager
Job Specification
Operational Duties
- To oversee and co-ordinate our Give it a Go Programme, ensuring a variety of safe, inclusive and engaging events, trips and opportunities are delivered across the year. Day to day activities might include planning, setting up and delivering events through a small student staff team, liaising with our marketing department to promote the programme, monitoring attendance, seeking student feedback and completing risk assessments and ensuring the safety of attendees.
- To co-ordinate our presence at Arrivals Weekend and deliver a series of events as part of Welcome Week including supporting the delivery of Welcome Fair.
- To co-ordinate Kent Student Union’s presence at University Open Days and Offer Holder Days held on Saturdays, ensuring they are staffed, interactive and showcase Kent Students’ Union’s impact on the student experience to prospective students.
- To support the delivery of wider KSU events as and when required such as Summerball.
- This role involves regular manual handling tasks, including lifting, carrying, and moving items. Training, guidance, and appropriate equipment will be provided. Candidates must be able to perform these duties safely, with reasonable adjustments considered where applicable.
People Responsibilities
- To recruit and manage a small team of student staff to deliver the Give it a Go Programme.
- To co-ordinate the work and monitor the workloads of student staff, ensuring that staff levels are adequate and efficient.
- To undertake performance reviews of student staff, in line with Kent Students’ Union policy.
- To effectively lead, coach and mentor people to help achieve their own potential.
- To actively review, plan and evaluate individual training needs, encouraging a learning and development culture.
Financial Responsibilities
- To manage the budgets for, Give it a Go and Open days/Offer Holder Days , ensuring adherence to Kent Students’ Union’s financial procedures.
- To maintain financial controls and ensure that the Finance Department receives all relevant financial information promptly, in accordance with Kent Student Union’s financial procedures.
Expected Behaviours
- To attend training sessions, and appropriate meetings as and when required by Kent Students’ Union.
- To contribute to the positive image of Kent Students’ Union with students, the University, and the local community.
- To ensure systems are in place to reduce Kent Students’ Unions’ impact on the environment.
- To act as an ambassador for Kent Students’ Union and show loyalty to the organisation, abiding by the Union’s Constitution, policies, and procedures.
- To undertake other tasks and responsibilities compatible with the level and nature of the post as required by your manager from time to time to support the achievement of Kent Students’ Union’s strategic plan.
- It is expected that the post-holder will be in attendance for Open Days and Offer Holder Days held on Saturdays, some evening work is also expected. Whilst not essential, it would be of benefit if the post-holder had a driving licence.
Person Specification
Qualifications
GCSE English and Maths (grade C / 4 or above), or equivalent.
Experience
- Experience of managing people (paid staff or volunteers) to deliver outstanding results.
- Experience of financial management
- A track record of working with a variety of internal and external stakeholders and building effective relationships
- Experience of promoting and delivering a wide range of events
Knowledge
- A good knowledge of health and safety legislation and best practice in the management of health and safety including the completion of risk assessments.
- An understanding of the current issues affecting higher education institutions and students
Skills and Abilities
- Sound judgement and ability to handle competing priorities and a challenging workload in a pressurised environment
- Skilled and committed user of IT, enabling efficiencies and improved service using technology.
- Good verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to relate and communicate effectively with people at all levels.
Values & Behaviours
- An effective and highly capable individual who is punctual, friendly and has a positive attitude and takes pride in their own work.
- Evidence of commitment to continuing personal and professional development
- A firm commitment to equality of opportunity; an individual who values diversity, shows respect for all people and works well with people who have different ideas, perspectives, and backgrounds
- A team player, who helps others to build a successful team, celebrates others’ successes and supports others to achieve individual and team goals
This job description does not form part of the contract of employment. Please see our website for a full job and person spec. When applying, please match your skills and experience as closely as possible to the Person Specification. This will be assessed at application and at interview.
Application and Selection Process and Timetable
Applications Close: Monday 26 January 2026, 12 noon.
Interviews: Tuesday 6 February 2026
Applications
To apply: Please submit your application on our recruitment portal on our website. Please note that we do not accept CV only applications.
Please ensure that you pay particular attention in your application to detailing how your experience meets the requirements of the person specification and why you are interested in the position. When applying, please match your skills and experience as closely as possible to the Person Specification. This will be assessed at application and at interview.
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Job Title: Independent Visitor Co-ordinator
Service: Children’s Rights Services, London and the South East
Reporting to: London Lead IV Coordinator
Salary: £16,200-£16,605 per annum (£27,000-£27,675 FTE)
Location: Hybrid, Coram Campus with homeworking and work in the community
Hours: 21 hours per week
Contract Type: Permanent
Job Introduction
· Are you passionate about supporting and developing volunteers?
· Are you looking for an opportunity to help make positive differences to the lives of children and young people who are looked after or care leavers of the local authority?
· Do you want to work with a leading national independent children’s charity?
Then come join us here at Coram Voice. We have an exciting opportunity for you to become a co-ordinator of our independent visiting service in London.
We are seeking candidates who are committed to our objectives for children and young people and equally committed to the organisation and the development of our services. We recognise we are a predominantly white workforce and are genuinely committed to encouraging candidates from diverse communities in order to improve the services to the children and young people we help.
Our work
Coram Voice is a national independent children’s charity established in 1975 and has grown to become one of the leading organisations for children and young people in the UK.
Coram Voice is a leading children’s rights organisation. We champion the rights of children. We get young voices heard in decisions that matter to them and work to improve the lives of children in care, care leavers and others who depend upon the help of the state.
We provide:
· Advocacy services direct to children and young people in care, in need, in custody and to care leavers and children and young people with severe and complex mental health problems. Advocates around the country support children and young people to get their voice heard in decisions about their lives. This may be through the telephone helpline or through an advocate working directly with a child, for instance, to support them at a review meeting or to help them make a complaint about their care. Coram Voice provides visiting advocacy services to most of the secure units nationally, to Secure Training Centres, Juvenile Young Offender Institutions, psychiatric hospitals, residential special schools and children’s homes.
· A National Helpline to provide access for children and young people to advocacy and advice, with access to legal advice and links with other national services.
· Independent Mental Health Advocacy (IMHA) to advocate for young people as qualifying patients under the Mental Health Act, in order to fully support them to get their views heard in matters relating to their mental health.
· Independent Visitor services offers a child or young person in care an adult volunteer who provides independent, one-to-one visiting, advice and befriending support. Our independent visitors can become the only long-term, consistent source of support throughout a young person's time in care.
· Independent services provide independent person services for complaints by children and for reviewing whether children should be locked up in secure units on welfare grounds.
· Policy and campaigning to create a better system for all children and young people looked after by the state, for their care to be more child-centred and to give young people a greater say in decisions about their lives.
· Participation services to ensure children and young people have a voice in the development and delivery of services and campaigns, and through the process, provide the opportunity to develop relevant skills which will be of benefit to them in their future lives.
· Training, development and information for young people, advocates and child care workers, offering courses in advocacy, children’s rights and child-centred practice across a range of areas including the National Advocacy Qualification.
About the Role
You will co-ordinate and deliver a statutory independent visitor service to children and young people in care or care leavers of London.
You will recruit, assess and train volunteers to become independent visitors, who are volunteer befrienders to children and young people looked after or care leavers. You will manage a cash flow to fund suitable activities for independent visitors to enjoy with the young person. You will manage data and reporting for this statutory service so that service leads and other stakeholders can understand the activity in the service.
We are a child led service, you will not act outside of the young person’s instructions (except in matters of child protection and safety.) You will build strong relationships with the child or young person, independent visitors and other significant adults, you will support Independent Visitors to develop long term, meaningful friendships with the young person.
You will work in partnership with other parts of the service, organisation and external agencies and professionals. This is to ensure there are pathways to attract and retain Independent Visitors in the area and sometimes out of area.
What you will receive
We wish to reward and recognise the valuable contributions our staff make to the organisation and offer an attractive benefits package to do so. Coram Voice benefits package includes a competitive salary, a matched pension scheme up to 5% of salary, generous leave entitlements of 28 days’ annual leave per year, with increases linked to years worked at Coram Voice. A supportive work environment fostering a good work/home life balance and a suite of family friendly policies, which promote employee wellbeing.
You will get a genuine opportunity to make a difference every day.
Recruitment process
Shortlisting will be undertaken by Grace Maher, Children’s Rights Services Manager and Jade Joseph, London Lead IV Coordinator. Successful candidates will then be invited for interview. The interview process comprises of a written exercise and a panel interview. Successful candidates will have a further one to one interview in accordance within Warner recommendations. Internal candidates will need to notify HR of their interest in the post and they will provide further information on the internal application process.
Returning your application:
· We cannot accept general CVs. When completing your application form, address each point of the person specification and demonstrate how you meet it.
· Applications must be fully completed.
The deadline for applications to be returned is 11.59pm on Sunday 1st February 2026.
Interviews will be arranged for Thursday 12th and Friday 13th February 2026.
Registered Charity
Coram changes lives, laws and systems to create better chances for children, now and forever.
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