Events Assistant
Who are we?
We are Manchester Students’ Union, the biggest SU in the country, supporting over 40,000 students throughout their time at university. We help to make student life the best it can be by supporting students to campaign for change, creating opportunities to meet new people, providing employment opportunities, providing advice and support and being a safe place on campus.
We are a values-centred organisation that employs around 90 permanent, full-time members of staff. We recruit a wide range of roles throughout the year within all our departments from our Commercial team operating Manchester Academy Venues, 13 Media, Bar 532 & Kitchen and Corridor Coffee to our Student Activities, Student Engagement, Marketing and Communications, Finance, HR and Facilities teams. Our team of around 400 part-time, studying staff are instrumental in providing to support to all departments as well as leading major projects like Student Angels. When you join UMSU, you’ll be immersed in an environment that empowers staff to make great things happen and we're always on the lookout for innovative, passionate, and proactive people to join us.
Our values are really important to us and shape the work that we do every day. As part of our recruitment process, we want you to demonstrate how your experiences, behaviours and skills align with our values. You can find more detailed explanations of our values on our website.
About the role
The Marketing, Events & Business Development team are looking to recruit two new Student Events Assistants to provide support in the delivery of the Team’s growing for-student and by-student events programme. Working alongside the Student Events team, you’ll be responsible for providing on-the-day event management for larger student events taking place in the Academy venues, directly ensuring the smooth running of events put on by the Events Team and student societies to deliver fantastic events for a variety of societies’ communities, as well as the wider student community as a whole. You will do this through working effectively alongside SU staff teams and student event organisers/leaders, ensuring correct procedure is followed in the setting up of the event, and supporting the Facilities Duty Manager in the setting up/down of the event. You will provide general oversight of the event from pre-arrival to departure of the event organisers, liaising between staff and student teams to ensure that the event runs to schedule and all venue rules and regulations are adhered to at all times. You will also be able to build and maintain a good working relationship with our internal and external suppliers and stakeholders, ensuring they are given clear on-the-day direction and service when involved with our events.
Please read the full role profile before applying, as well as our guide to recruitment.
Details
Wage: £12.60 per hour + holiday pay
Contract: Zero Hours, Fixed-Term until 31st July 2026.
Hours: approximately 10 hours per week
Our Reward Package
You'll get access to our reward package which you can see here.
Recruitment Guide
We have a guide that explains our full recruitment process. We recommend reading through this before beginning an application.
If you are invited to interview with us, we will share our interview questions in advance so you can prepare your responses. We’re more interested in hearing about your experiences and ideas than in testing your memory, and so we want you to feel as prepared as possible.
Inclusivity and Accessibility
We are committed to equality of opportunity, and we work hard to ensure we appoint based on skill and values.
We particularly encourage applications from Disabled or Black, Black British, Black Welsh, Caribbean or African candidates as these groups are currently underrepresented in our staff team.
If you have any accessibility requirements or require adjustments to support you to apply to work with us, please get in touch. We can offer reasonable adjustments at all stages of our recruitment process.
Recruitment Timeline
Applications opened: 22nd April 9am
Applications close: 12th May 3pm
Interviews: 9th June
Role Commencing: August
We may close applications early if we receive a high volume of applications. We recommend that you apply as soon as possible to avoid disappointment. In this case, all applicants who have started an application will be contacted 2 hours before we close the role.
Contact
People Team:
You can contact the People Team with any questions regarding this vacancy or our recruitment process.
Email: jobs.su@manchester.ac.uk
Phone: 0161 306 3279
Hiring Manager:
You can contact the People Team with any questions regarding this vacancy or our recruitment process.