Events and Engagement Officer
Job summary
We're looking for an enthusiastic and highly organised Events and Engagement Officer to join our Market Engagement team.
This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in delivering a diverse programme of high-profile conferences, stakeholder engagements and employee events that support
our strategic objectives and strengthen relationships across the housing, regeneration and investment sectors.
The Market Engagement team is responsible for building and maintaining relationships with the organisations, partners and stakeholders that help us deliver our mission.
Through events, engagement activity and stakeholder communications, the team helps
connect industry, investors, public sector partners and government with our work and priorities.
As Events and Engagement Officer, you'll help plan and deliver a range of national and
regional events, creating opportunities to showcase our impact, share insight, support collaboration and strengthen relationships across the sector.
This is a varied and fast-paced role, offering the opportunity to work with senior leaders, external stakeholders and colleagues across Homes England and the National Housing
Bank. You'll be involved in some of the sector's highest-profile events, including supporting our presence at UKREiiF, Homes England Live and MIPIM, alongside
stakeholder roundtables, regional engagement events, conferences and internal colleague events.
Job description
• Coordinate the planning and delivery of internal and external events, conferences and stakeholder engagement activities.
• Manage event logistics, ensuring events are delivered professionally, efficiently and in line with organisational policy objectives.
• Manage external speaking engagements and engagement activity across the organisation.
• Develop and maintain planning tools, event guidance and delivery documentation.
• Support the management of event budgets and supplier relationships, ensuring value for money and high-quality outcomes.
• Act as an ambassador for the Agency, building strong relationships with colleagues and external partners including Events Organisers.
• Support senior colleagues before, during and after events, ensuring a seamless experience for participants.
• Evaluate event performance, gathering insights and recommendations to improve future activity.
• Help develop consistent approaches, processes and tools for event delivery across the organisation.
• Produce reports, briefings and recommendations for senior stakeholders.
• Work collaboratively with colleagues and external partners to ensure
engagement activity delivers against organisational priorities.
Person specification
You'll be a proactive and organised individual who enjoys bringing people together and delivering exceptional experiences.
You'll be comfortable managing multiple priorities, working to deadlines and building productive relationships with a wide range of stakeholders.
You'll have strong attention to detail, excellent communication skills and a collaborative approach that helps teams work effectively together.
We're looking for someone who can demonstrate:
• Experience coordinating events, conferences and engagement activities.
• Excellent organisational and project management skills.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience working with a range of internal and external stakeholders.
• The ability to manage competing priorities and deliver to deadlines.
• Strong attention to detail and a commitment to delivering high-quality outcomes.
• A proactive and solutions-focused approach to problem-solving.
• Experience managing suppliers, venues and event logistics would be
advantageous.
• Experience using CRM, stakeholder management or event management systems
would be beneficial.
Benefits
Homes England is an executive non-departmental public body with its own terms and conditions, benefits and pension scheme. We are a government agency working in partnership with the private sector and want to employ and retain great people. In return we offer a range of excellent benefits.Holiday - Homes England offers all staff 33 days annual leave per year in addition to 8 statutory bank holidays.
Working Flexibly - At Homes England we have a strong culture of flexible working and encourage all employees to have a healthy work/life balance. We offer a wide range of potential working patterns, including part time, job share and compressed hours.
These need to be balanced with business needs so they will vary from job to job. If you would like to know more please speak to the Recruiting Manager.
Health and Wellbeing - We offer health screening with Nuffield Proactive Health Clinics, a free Employee Assistance Programme which offers confidential support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week as well as access to Occupational Health.
Professional Development - At Homes England we are committed to your continued professional and personal development with learning as one of our core values. We pay for one job-related professional membership subscription per year for our employees.
We also offer an excellent range of family friendly benefits, for example, maternity, paternity, shared parental leave.
If anyone has any queries on any of these terms and conditions, please get in touch for further information.
Things you need to know
Artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance (opens in a new window) for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.Selection process details
We would encourage all applicants to apply as soon as possible as we may close vacancies early should we receive a high number of applications.
We also encourage you to apply using the full application option as opposed to quick apply, this is especially important if you would like to indicate to us that you would like to be considered under the disability confident scheme.
We’re a diverse team of more than 1,000 professionals spanning 17 professions, helping Homes England to be effective, efficient and deliver for communities.
Our people remain at the heart of everything we do, and we’re committed to building an Agency that not only reflects the diverse communities we serve, but also champions inclusion in how we shape homes and places across the country. For more information about our EDI strategy please see our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Report 2024 to 2025 — Second Edition - GOV.UK
You will be required to have the Right to Work in the UK and Homes England do not offer visa sponsorship. If your application is shortlisted to interview we will require you to provide proof of your Right to Work in the UK at this stage.
Artificial Intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
Security
Successful candidates must undergo a basic (or equivalent) criminal record check.People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
Security
Successful candidates must undergo a basic (or equivalent) criminal record check.People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.Nationality requirements
This job is broadly open to the following groups:
- UK nationals
- nationals of the Republic of Ireland
- nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
- nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
- nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
- individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
- Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service
Working for the Civil Service
Please note this Post is NOT regulated by the Civil Service Commission.The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.Diversity and Inclusion
The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see theCivil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).Apply and further information
The Civil Service welcomes applications from people who have recently left prison or have an unspent conviction. Read more about prison leaver recruitment (opens in new window).Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records.Contact point for applicants
Job contact :
- Name : Recruitment Team
- Email : Recruitmentinfo@homesengland.gov.uk
Recruitment team
Further information
https://www.homesenglandcareers.co.uk/Salary range
- £35,814 - £41,488 per year