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Contract (FFTC Until December 2026)
Job description

Job Summary

  • Job title: Research Events Coordinator
  • Area of work: Arts and Heritage
  • Contract type: Fixed Term - Until December 2026
  • Employment type: Full-time
  • Location: London
  • Working environment: Onsite 5 times a week
  • Working hours: 35 hours per week - with occasional weekend work


Overview / Purpose

The Research Events Coordinator plays a central role in the organisation's mission to build a world-leading Research Centre. This department coordinates, generates, and champions research activity across the organisation. The Research Events Coordinator contributes the Department's central mission to advance knowledge through the conception, creation, delivery, and dissemination of the highest quality research events aimed at the widest possible public and specialist audiences, undertaken through many diverse channels and through the organisation's local, national, and international research projects and partnerships.


Key Responsibility

Support the Research Centre Manager, Senior Research Lead, and Head of Research in:
Events Administration

  • Attend meetings, take and circulate notes on event planning and preparation.
  • Assist the Research Centre Manager, Senior Research Lead, Head of Research, and all other event-hosting staff with: coordinating Calls for Papers; liaising with speakers and collaborators; providing administration for all aspects of events planning.
  • Book travel and accommodation for external speakers (and VIP attendees); attend any related invoices and ensure prompt payment of the same.
  • Book venues and prepare rooms for conferences, seminars, and all other Research Centre events, e.g. arrange furniture, set up refreshments.
  • Arrange, as necessary, all IT and AV support for events, including speaker and participant digital access for online events, facilitating practice sessions, and any livestreams and recording of events.
  • Work at evening events (outside office hours) at the organisation or events hosted at external locations, as required (agreed in advance).
  • Provide technical support at digital events, including setting up hybrid planning meetings between internal and external colleagues.
  • Coordinate with AV/Digital event recordings for archive and/or release to participants and the general public.
  • Maintain the contacts/networks database as it relates to event attendees, speakers etc.


Communications and Advertising:

  • Produce event copy, as required, for the website, e-newsletter for research networks, etc.
  • Liaise with the Digital Team over online event pages on the website and over the booking system; monitor event bookings.
  • Ensure that the web information about the Research Centre remains current; liaise with the Digital Team about web content.
  • Maintain and develop the email list of subscribers to events mailings and to the newsletter.
  • Co-ordinate the regular research email newsletter; liaise with content providers for the newsletter; produce event copy, as required, for e-newsletters for research networks, etc.
  • Work with Digital and Creative Teams to create event templates for invitations that match the brand, the research theme and audience of the given event.
  • Work to promote upcoming research events using internal and external advertising platforms, as appropriate.


Research Centre Administration:

  • Provide front-of-house support to the Research Centre, as necessary.
  • Attend and take and circulate notes, as required, at relevant committees/working groups for research.
  • Work with Senior Research Lead and Research Centre Manager to carry out administration related to research projects, including assisting with budgets, processing invoices, securing image rights, publishing web content, liaising with external collaborators and visiting fellows, booking travel and accommodation and providing administration for all research project activities.


Key Required Skills

  • Substantial experience of event management to coordinate projects and events, ideally within a large, multipart organisation.
  • Ability to develop and manage detailed project timelines and workflows.
  • Excellent communication skills, written and verbal.
  • Excellent organisational and administrative skills with excellent attention to detail (e.g. creating travel itineraries; making bookings; taking minutes of meetings; maintaining calendars and room booking systems).
  • Proven track record in numeracy and financial data-handling experience; experience maintaining and managing information on a relational database.


Key Required Attributes

  • Ability to organise/prioritise complex tasks and workflows, and to meet deadlines.
  • Proactive, self-motivated, and resourceful; able to take the initiative and be imaginative in problem-solving; able to understand the need to escalate an issue as situations permit.
  • Ability to work collaboratively as part of a small team.
  • Ability to adapt to situations as they arise and to remain flexible.
  • Experience working in a visitor-facing environment, with effective communication and interpersonal skills when interacting with internal/external stakeholders; willing to be actively involved in all levels of event delivery.


Additional Considerations and Criteria

  • Some evening or weekend work will be required to support Research Centre events (time off in lieu will be given).
  • Occasional travel may be required.

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Posted on: 15 August 2025
Closing date: 12 September 2025 at 15:34
Job ref: 4716629
Tags: Administration