Event Programme Producer - Marketing & Communications Part-time

United Kingdom

Posted Wednesday 18 February 2026 at 01:00

Salary: c £33,000 per annum (negotiable based on experience) + comprehensive benefits package

Jisc grade: PRS3

Job Type: Permanent

Hours: 0.8 ( 4 day week) 28 hours, flexible on working days

Reports into: Head of Events

Working style: Hybrid - A blend of working from home and your nominated hub office. We have hubs located in London, Bristol, Manchester and Oxford.

About Jisc:

For 30 years Jisc has pioneered digital solutions for UK education and research, transforming how knowledge is created, shared and used.

We are uniquely positioned to protect, promote and lead the sector in digital and data transformation, making a difference to students, communities and society. Together, we are

working to build a better digital future for education and research.

Raise your potential through our culture of lifelong learning. At Jisc, we're all about growth, so embrace new challenges, sharpen your skills and shape a career that excites you.

The role:

The event programme producer role will take full responsibility for the delivery of a successful programme at a number of Jisc’s priority events across the year. The programme needs to strike the perfect balance – meeting the needs of the organisation and commercial partners, while ensuring a compelling and inspirational offering that meets and exceeds the expectations of the delegates.

You will work with internal and external stakeholders to lead on the creation of the event programmes, delivering against top line themes and strands established by the steering group for each event.

What you’ll be doing:

The event programme producer will take full responsibility for delivering the programme against Jisc’s priority events including the Security Conference and Jisc’s flagship event, Digifest. Key accountabilities and role outputs include:

• Work as part of the event steering group and with internal/external stakeholders to develop conference themes
• Develop and manage the call for paper process (both internally and externally)
• Evaluate programme proposals (alongside key business stakeholders) and create full event programme
• Manage all communications around programme submissions.
• Work with the event internal steering group for programme session and speaker ideas
• Identify keynote and plenary speakers complimentary to the themes and strands.
• Work with the Senior Event Managers who hold overall responsibility for the events to ensure the programme integrates seamlessly with all other elements of the event.
• Work with exhibition and sponsorship manager to ensure that commercial sessions are fully integrated and complimentary to the wider event
• Work with event managers and other marketing and communications colleagues to ensure the programme is used to its maximum potential as a marketing hook for the event.

What we are looking for:

• Experience of programme development at similar scale events
• Good understanding of audience types and experience of matching content to expectations
• Developing strong relationships quickly and effectively in a complex organisation
• Effective communicator with members and/or customers of internal and external stakeholder groups

It’s a bonus if you have

• Experience of programme development for conferences within a relevant part of the education or technology sector

Skills

• Hi gh level of communication skills
• Organisational and prioritisation skills
• Ability to lead projects through to completion
• A bili ty to extract and evaluate information from a wide range of sources
• Ability to influence others and use diplomacy

Personal Qualities

• Inclusive

What we are looking for

• Educated to degree level or equivalent (preferably in a relevant subject) or equivalent experience at this level

We know that sometimes people can be put off applying for a job if they think they can’t tick every box, so we encourage you to apply even if you do not meet 100% of the requirements, but you feel this role is perfect for you. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles!

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