Assistant event manager

Closing date: 30/01/2025

Salary: £32,000 per year

We are looking for an Assistant Event Manager to join our Producing & Event Management team on a full-time, two years fixed term basis.

The Southbank Centre is Europe’s largest arts centre and one of the UK’s top five visitor attractions, occupying an 11-acre site that sits in the midst of London’s most vibrant cultural quarter on the South Bank of the Thames. Its impact and reach are significant and it is respected internationally as a convener of great artists and diverse audiences and for being entrepreneurial and innovative in response to a volatile and changing financial landscape. The Southbank Centre is a charity that is determined to demonstrate its ambition to remain innovative, disruptive and experimental in what it does and to be highly relevant to the artists it wants to work with and to the audiences it wants to attract.

The Event Management team work on Events across all artforms and Public Programming activity and are scheduled around 3 months in advance.  The role is responsible for the advancing, coordination, delivery and reconciliation of allocated events across all artforms. 

The majority of Southbank Centre Artistic Events take place Tuesday to Sunday and the post-holder should expect to work regular evenings and on approximately three weekends out of five.

Role objectives

• To provide efficient and proactive administrative and event delivery; advancing and delivering a range of diverse and dynamic artistic events in non-auditoria spaces, in conjunction with the Producing and Programming teams to successfully deliver the Southbank Centre’s (SC) artistic programme to an international standard.
• Work with the Programmers, Producers and Event Managers to provide administrative, advancing and delivery support for the Event Management team on allocated events and festivals to enable the successful delivery of a diverse and dynamic event and festival programme. 
• To communicate the operational needs of assigned events to all necessary and related internal departments through the effective administration of Artifax, Southbank Centre’s venue management system, and agreed operational procedures.
• To provide a consistent event management and delivery lead for one or more strands of Public Programming year round work, Open Doors.
• To  provide  efficient  and  courteous  support to  those  involved  with  the  Event Management and Producing team, including colleagues, artists, creative practitioners, partner organisations, members of the public and any others.

Please download the Job Description from our Career page (via the Apply button) for a full overview of this role responsibilities. 

Benefits & Perks:

As well as working at one of London's most popular and exciting  sites the successful candidate will also benefit from the following:

• A min 5%  employer’s pension contribution (rising to 9% depending on your employee contribution), from day 1 of employment
• 28 days annual leave, plus bank holidays (pro-rata for part time employees)
• Hybrid working model (3 days office working, 2 days from home subject to allocations)
• Enhanced sick pay
• Enhanced family leave benefits
• Up to 30% discounts at onsite retail, food and beverage vendors
• Staff ticket offers for Southbank Centre events
• Free entry to Hayward Gallery
• Free/discounted entry with other reciprocal organisations
• Free staff yoga 
• Free access to emotional support from a confidential specialist Employee Assistance Programme available 24/7
• Season ticket loan
• Cycle to work scheme

We welcome applications from people from a Black, Asian or Ethnically Diverse background or those who are D/deaf or disabled. If you wish to discuss reasonable adjustments such as a BSL interpreter for your interview please indicate this on your application form. Interviews will take place at The Southbank Centre. If you would like to speak to someone about any adjustments or concerns you can also email hrteam@southbankcentre.co.uk and we will be in touch with you to make the necessary arrangements. 

By attracting people to work for us from a broad range of backgrounds with diverse attitudes, opinions and beliefs we can continue to look at the world with fresh eyes and find new ways of doing things. The Southbank Centre is a warm and welcoming place to work, with great aspirations and ambitions to create great and accessible work for all. We pride ourselves in building a supportive environment to enable the development of our staff. 

If you feel you have just some of the required skills and experience but meet the person specification, we would still encourage you to apply; we are very open to continuing the training and development of individuals who are self motivated to acquire new skills and knowledge relevant to the role.

Please make sure that you state in your application that you found this role via Creative Access.