Events and External Relations Officer (F0030N)
Homes England
Date: 11 hours ago
City: Newcastle upon Tyne, England
Contract type: Part time
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Job Summary
You will play a key role in supporting the planning and delivery of Agency activity at flagship sector events like MIPIM and UKREIIF, alongside owned Agency events like Homes England Live.
Job Description
Working closely with the Events and External Relations Manager, you’ll coordinate activities, manage resources, handle contracts, liaise with venues, and work with AV specialists to ensure everything is set up perfectly, often travelling to venues themselves for site recces or to deliver an event.
You will build strong relationships with conference organisers, event agencies, trade bodies, and partners to ensure seamless event execution.
Additionally, you will help manage the event inbox daily, responding promptly to triage speaking opportunities and event invitations across the Agency. You will effectively communicate queries, identify suitable speakers, and on occasion manage logistics to confirm attendance, ensuring colleagues have everything they need leading up to the event.
You will be regularly liaising with colleagues from across the Agency, including Heads of Office and Executive Assistants, to coordinate and confirm speaking opportunities for senior management, ensuring every detail is aligned and executed flawlessly.
No two days are alike in this dynamic role, which calls for collaboration, sound decision-making, and the ability to adapt to changing priorities. You will need professionalism, accuracy, and a healthy dose of enthusiasm to navigate this fast-paced environment.
While previous experience in an events team is desirable, the role will deepen your understanding of the complexities of event management.
Join our passionate and friendly team dedicated to delivering engaging, purpose-driven events with a touch of fun. Our work is fuelled by creativity, curiosity, and commitment, as we collaborate closely with the wider communications team and various internal and external stakeholders.
This is a unique opportunity to help shape the story of a fast-growing national organisation with a genuine social mission.
This role will require travel on a monthly basis with occasional overnight stays. All travel expenses will be covered by Homes England.
Working closely with the Events and External Relations Manager, you’ll coordinate activities, manage resources, handle contracts, liaise with venues, and work with AV specialists to ensure everything is set up perfectly, often travelling to venues themselves for site recces or to deliver an event.
You will build strong relationships with conference organisers, event agencies, trade bodies, and partners to ensure seamless event execution.
Additionally, you will help manage the event inbox daily, responding promptly to triage speaking opportunities and event invitations across the Agency. You will effectively communicate queries, identify suitable speakers, and on occasion manage logistics to confirm attendance, ensuring colleagues have everything they need leading up to the event.
You will be regularly liaising with colleagues from across the Agency, including Heads of Office and Executive Assistants, to coordinate and confirm speaking opportunities for senior management, ensuring every detail is aligned and executed flawlessly.
No two days are alike in this dynamic role, which calls for collaboration, sound decision-making, and the ability to adapt to changing priorities. You will need professionalism, accuracy, and a healthy dose of enthusiasm to navigate this fast-paced environment.
While previous experience in an events team is desirable, the role will deepen your understanding of the complexities of event management.
Join our passionate and friendly team dedicated to delivering engaging, purpose-driven events with a touch of fun. Our work is fuelled by creativity, curiosity, and commitment, as we collaborate closely with the wider communications team and various internal and external stakeholders.
This is a unique opportunity to help shape the story of a fast-growing national organisation with a genuine social mission.
This role will require travel on a monthly basis with occasional overnight stays. All travel expenses will be covered by Homes England.
Person specification
You are a dynamic and skilled organiser who can hit the ground running, with a passion for making a positive impact through teamwork. Thriving in fast-paced environments, you bring proven experience in events planning and delivery, along with strong project management skills that enable you to effectively prioritise and manage multiple tasks simultaneously.
You have strong problem-solving abilities, enabling you to remain calm under pressure, meet tight deadlines with a proactive approach, and have a keen eye for detail.
You are a natural collaborator, skilled at relationship building and working closely with senior colleagues and fostering strong relationships with diverse stakeholders.
Confident and persuasive, you excel in negotiating key elements to ensure events run smoothly and achieve their objectives.
Who are we?
Homes England: The Housing and Regeneration Agency
We believe that affordable, quality homes in well-designed places are key to improving people’s lives. As the government’s housing and regeneration agency, we create thriving new places and transform urban areas, combining the full breadth of our powers, expertise, land, capital and influence to bring investment to communities and get more homes built.
How? We form long-term partnerships that bridge the gap between the public and private sector to meet local needs and aspirations. We use our influence to champion the creation of sustainable homes, communities and places that are brilliantly designed for the people that live there now, and in the future. And we use our funding and support to build a more resilient, diverse and innovative housing sector, helping new entrants in the market, encouraging modern methods of construction and design, and promoting the utmost attention to building safety.
Together with our partners, we’re accelerating the pace of house building, remediation and regeneration across the country, as we seek to deliver ever more affordable homes in places people are proud to call home for generations to come.
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, some of the key benefits include:
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.
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.
Selection process details
How to apply?
To apply please follow the links to our careers page.
Security
Successful candidates must pass a disclosure and barring security check.
Selection process details
For more information on the role, please see the attached Job Description.
Successful applicants will be advised of the outcome of their application and interviews held as soon as practical after the closing date. Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment. We would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your interest in this role and Homes England.
Please note – Homes England has a responsibility to ensure compliance with HMG Baseline Personnel Security Standard to address the potential problems of identity fraud, illegal working and deception generally. To ensure compliance we will carry out a pre-employment Personal Identity and Vetting Report through Experian to meet the standard and you will therefore be asked to provide certain information in order that the verification check can be carried out if you are successful in your application.
Homes England are an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates. We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer that values and respects the people who work for us. Our aim is to be an employer of choice, enabling everyone to reach their full potential.
Homes England Is Committed To Protecting The Privacy And Security Of Your Personal Data. For Further Information Please Refer To Our Privacy Notice Which Can Be Viewed Here
https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/homes-england/about/personal-information-charter
Nationality Requirements
Open to UK, Commonwealth and European Economic Area (EEA) and certain non EEA nationals. Further information on whether you are able to apply is available here.
Working for the Civil Service
Please note this Post is NOT regulated by the Civil Service Commission.
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equality of opportunity. There is a guaranteed disability confident interview scheme for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
Further information
Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records.
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
Security
Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.
People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.
Successful candidates must undergo a 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
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.
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 the Civil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).
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
Job Summary
You will play a key role in supporting the planning and delivery of Agency activity at flagship sector events like MIPIM and UKREIIF, alongside owned Agency events like Homes England Live.
Job Description
Working closely with the Events and External Relations Manager, you’ll coordinate activities, manage resources, handle contracts, liaise with venues, and work with AV specialists to ensure everything is set up perfectly, often travelling to venues themselves for site recces or to deliver an event.
You will build strong relationships with conference organisers, event agencies, trade bodies, and partners to ensure seamless event execution.
Additionally, you will help manage the event inbox daily, responding promptly to triage speaking opportunities and event invitations across the Agency. You will effectively communicate queries, identify suitable speakers, and on occasion manage logistics to confirm attendance, ensuring colleagues have everything they need leading up to the event.
You will be regularly liaising with colleagues from across the Agency, including Heads of Office and Executive Assistants, to coordinate and confirm speaking opportunities for senior management, ensuring every detail is aligned and executed flawlessly.
No two days are alike in this dynamic role, which calls for collaboration, sound decision-making, and the ability to adapt to changing priorities. You will need professionalism, accuracy, and a healthy dose of enthusiasm to navigate this fast-paced environment.
While previous experience in an events team is desirable, the role will deepen your understanding of the complexities of event management.
Join our passionate and friendly team dedicated to delivering engaging, purpose-driven events with a touch of fun. Our work is fuelled by creativity, curiosity, and commitment, as we collaborate closely with the wider communications team and various internal and external stakeholders.
This is a unique opportunity to help shape the story of a fast-growing national organisation with a genuine social mission.
This role will require travel on a monthly basis with occasional overnight stays. All travel expenses will be covered by Homes England.
Working closely with the Events and External Relations Manager, you’ll coordinate activities, manage resources, handle contracts, liaise with venues, and work with AV specialists to ensure everything is set up perfectly, often travelling to venues themselves for site recces or to deliver an event.
You will build strong relationships with conference organisers, event agencies, trade bodies, and partners to ensure seamless event execution.
Additionally, you will help manage the event inbox daily, responding promptly to triage speaking opportunities and event invitations across the Agency. You will effectively communicate queries, identify suitable speakers, and on occasion manage logistics to confirm attendance, ensuring colleagues have everything they need leading up to the event.
You will be regularly liaising with colleagues from across the Agency, including Heads of Office and Executive Assistants, to coordinate and confirm speaking opportunities for senior management, ensuring every detail is aligned and executed flawlessly.
No two days are alike in this dynamic role, which calls for collaboration, sound decision-making, and the ability to adapt to changing priorities. You will need professionalism, accuracy, and a healthy dose of enthusiasm to navigate this fast-paced environment.
While previous experience in an events team is desirable, the role will deepen your understanding of the complexities of event management.
Join our passionate and friendly team dedicated to delivering engaging, purpose-driven events with a touch of fun. Our work is fuelled by creativity, curiosity, and commitment, as we collaborate closely with the wider communications team and various internal and external stakeholders.
This is a unique opportunity to help shape the story of a fast-growing national organisation with a genuine social mission.
This role will require travel on a monthly basis with occasional overnight stays. All travel expenses will be covered by Homes England.
Person specification
You are a dynamic and skilled organiser who can hit the ground running, with a passion for making a positive impact through teamwork. Thriving in fast-paced environments, you bring proven experience in events planning and delivery, along with strong project management skills that enable you to effectively prioritise and manage multiple tasks simultaneously.
You have strong problem-solving abilities, enabling you to remain calm under pressure, meet tight deadlines with a proactive approach, and have a keen eye for detail.
You are a natural collaborator, skilled at relationship building and working closely with senior colleagues and fostering strong relationships with diverse stakeholders.
Confident and persuasive, you excel in negotiating key elements to ensure events run smoothly and achieve their objectives.
Who are we?
Homes England: The Housing and Regeneration Agency
We believe that affordable, quality homes in well-designed places are key to improving people’s lives. As the government’s housing and regeneration agency, we create thriving new places and transform urban areas, combining the full breadth of our powers, expertise, land, capital and influence to bring investment to communities and get more homes built.
How? We form long-term partnerships that bridge the gap between the public and private sector to meet local needs and aspirations. We use our influence to champion the creation of sustainable homes, communities and places that are brilliantly designed for the people that live there now, and in the future. And we use our funding and support to build a more resilient, diverse and innovative housing sector, helping new entrants in the market, encouraging modern methods of construction and design, and promoting the utmost attention to building safety.
Together with our partners, we’re accelerating the pace of house building, remediation and regeneration across the country, as we seek to deliver ever more affordable homes in places people are proud to call home for generations to come.
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, some of the key benefits include:
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.
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.
Selection process details
How to apply?
To apply please follow the links to our careers page.
Security
Successful candidates must pass a disclosure and barring security check.
Selection process details
For more information on the role, please see the attached Job Description.
Successful applicants will be advised of the outcome of their application and interviews held as soon as practical after the closing date. Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment. We would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your interest in this role and Homes England.
Please note – Homes England has a responsibility to ensure compliance with HMG Baseline Personnel Security Standard to address the potential problems of identity fraud, illegal working and deception generally. To ensure compliance we will carry out a pre-employment Personal Identity and Vetting Report through Experian to meet the standard and you will therefore be asked to provide certain information in order that the verification check can be carried out if you are successful in your application.
Homes England are an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates. We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer that values and respects the people who work for us. Our aim is to be an employer of choice, enabling everyone to reach their full potential.
Homes England Is Committed To Protecting The Privacy And Security Of Your Personal Data. For Further Information Please Refer To Our Privacy Notice Which Can Be Viewed Here
https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/homes-england/about/personal-information-charter
Nationality Requirements
Open to UK, Commonwealth and European Economic Area (EEA) and certain non EEA nationals. Further information on whether you are able to apply is available here.
Working for the Civil Service
Please note this Post is NOT regulated by the Civil Service Commission.
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equality of opportunity. There is a guaranteed disability confident interview scheme for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
Further information
Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records.
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
Security
Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.
People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.
Successful candidates must undergo a 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.
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 the Civil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).
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 : [email protected]
- Email : [email protected]
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