Events Officer; Major Events

Events Officer (Major Events)
Opportunity  

Professional Services
Location

QM London
Contract Type

Permanent
Working Patterns

Full Time
Full Time Equivalent (FTE) 1.00

Working Hours (Per Week)

35.00
Salary Range

33,263 - 40,015 per annum
Job Pack JP 11005 Events Officer (Major Events).pdf – 720KB
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Contact Details

Hannah Brown, Major Events Ma
About the Role
*** INTERNAL ONLY
*** About the Role As Events Officer (Major Events), you will play a key role in supporting the planning and delivery of Queen Mary's flagship events programme. Working within the External Relations Directorate and reporting to the Major Events Manager, you will help deliver major institutional events including graduation ceremonies, open days and other high-profile occasions that showcase the University and support its strategic objectives.

You will work collaboratively with colleagues across the University, helping to coordinate event logistics, stakeholder communications and operational delivery to ensure events are delivered to the highest professional standards. This is a varied and hands-on role that combines event planning, stakeholder engagement, administration and on-the-day event management.

This is an exciting opportunity for an events professional to contribute to some of the University's most visible and impactful events, helping create memorable experiences for students, staff, alumni and external audiences. Please see the job pack for full details.

About You You're an organised and proactive events professional who thrives in a fast-paced environment and enjoys bringing large-scale events to life. Whether coordinating graduation ceremonies, open days or high-profile institutional events, you remain calm under pressure, pay close attention to detail and consistently deliver an excellent experience for participants and stakeholders. You have experience supporting or managing events in a professional environment and understand the importance of balancing logistics, customer service and strategic objectives.

You are a confident communicator who can build positive relationships with colleagues, suppliers and stakeholders across a complex organisation. About the Department Queen Mary University of London is one of the UK’s leading research universities, committed to improving social justice and achieving the previously unthinkable. The External Relations Directorate is responsible for the University’s external activities, including communications and marketing, events, student recruitment and admissions, international affairs, and alumni relations and development.

The role of Events Officer (Major Events) sits within the Communications team.

About Queen Mary At Queen Mary University of London, we believe that a diversity of ideas helps us achieve the previously unthinkable.

Throughout our history, we’ve fostered social justice and improved lives through academic excellence. And we continue to live and breathe this spirit today, not because it’s simply ‘the right thing to do’ but for what it helps us achieve and the intellectual brilliance it delivers.

Our reformer heritage informs our conviction that great ideas can and should come from anywhere. It’s an approach that has brought results across the globe, from the communities of east London to the favelas of Rio de Janeiro.

We continue to embrace diversity of thought and opinion in everything we do, in the belief that when views collide, disciplines interact, and perspectives intersect, truly original thought takes form.

Benefits We offer competitive salaries, access to a generous pension scheme, 30 days’ leave per annum (pro-rata for part-time/fixed-term), a season ticket loan scheme and access to a comprehensive range of personal and professional development opportunities. In addition, we offer a range of work life balance and family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, and campus facilities.

Queen Mary’s commitment to our diverse and inclusive community is embedded in our appointments processes. Reasonable adjustments will be made at each stage of the recruitment process for any candidate with a disability. We are open to considering applications from candidates wishing to work flexibly.

Closing Date 01/09/2026, 23:55