YOU’LL HAVE/BRING

• Strong interpersonal skills to manage a range of stakeholders and experience in establishing good relationship and alliances with internal and external networks
• Experience in curating and delivering regular high-profile events
• Experience in public speaking, including presenting and moderating.
• A track record of collaborating with others to deliver results.
• Able to develop innovative ideas and solutions to plans, challenges and objectives through creative and strategic thinking.
• Able to demonstrate resilience and adapts positively within the context of ambiguous and fast changing priorities and cultural agendas.
• Able to demonstrate self-awareness seeking out challenges and opportunities to improve both personal and organisational performance.
• Is a clear, engaging and articulate communicator, able to convey a motivating and compelling sense of purpose, direction and success to key stakeholders.
• Able to manage and deliver multiple projects and programmes of work alongside each other with available resources measuring and monitoring performance throughout.
• Excellent interpersonal/customer service skills, ability to lead by example.
• Ability to effectively develop and implement work plans and ensure all tasks are delivered to the required standards.
• Ability to achieve deadlines and targets, monitor performance of the matrix team and take corrective action where necessary.
• Ability to build relationships with a wide range of senior stakeholder representatives, partners and customers.
• Attention to detail with high professional standards.

PURPOSE OF ROLE

London & Partners supports the growth journey of over 1000 businesses each year.
The Event Programme Manager delivers some of our most important community events supporting start-ups and scale-ups, our peer-to-peer networks and sector community events (including Demo Days, Pitching Sessions, Overlooked and Female Founders groups). The position holder will also project manage our annual summit and build strong relationships with high-profile speakers in the tech ecosystem.