Events Coordinator - London

Job Introduction

DAC Beachcroft has an exciting opportunity for an Events Coordinator to join our Clients & Markets team on a full-time, permanent basis in our London office. This role will be predominantly office based, however there will be opportunities to work from home occasionally, event dependent.

This role would best suit someone early in their events career, who already has some experience in supporting the delivery of face-to-face and virtual events, ideally within a professional services environment. 

We are a Disability Confident employer and guarantee to interview anyone with a disability, long term health condition or neurodiversity whose application meets the essential criteria for the role.  If this applies to you and you feel you meet the minimum criteria for this vacancy as set out in this advert then please contact recruitment@dacbeachcroft.com in confidence, quoting the reference number for this vacancy in the subject box of your email, and a member of the Recruitment team will be in touch.

Role Responsibility

On-side event support:

• Act as the on-site point of contact during live events, ensuring seamless execution of event logistics, and resolve any arising issues promptly.
• Collaborate with catering and facilities teams, both internally and externally as needed to ensure event spaces and requirements are met as planned.
• Coordinate with internal and external speakers as needed.  

Event planning and production:

• Support the event manager in the planning and coordination of digital webinars, hybrid, and in-person events.
• Work collaboratively with marketing, design and digital teams as needed to collate event related assets.
• Ensure event-related presentations are brand compliant.
• Prepare invitations, and other event-related email communications.
• Produce regular registration reports to be circulated to key stakeholders.
• Support in the editing and distribution of post-webinar video content.

Communication and collaboration:

• Update our corporate website, and internal marketing hub, to notify clients and stakeholders of upcoming events. 
• Respond to requests received to the Events inbox, and action as needed.
• Coordinate diaries for internal stakeholders, and outline key deadlines.
• Researching market trends and data to improve quality of events, including competitor events, invite designs, online event platforms and hybrid event formats

The Ideal Candidate

• Experience in supporting the delivery of successful face-to-face events is required
• Experience hosting/supporting on virtual events (webinars) is desirable
• Strong organisational skills are required
• Some knowledge of how to work towards a budget is desired
• Experience working with external suppliers is ideal, but not required
• Attention to detail is key
• Basic copywriting skills and ability to adapt style to different audiences and channels is ideal 
• Knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel, and CRM

Essential Role Requirements:

• This role requires the candidate to be office-based. There will be opportunities to work occasional days from home, event dependent.
• This role requires the candidate to be available for events 9am-5pm, Monday to Friday, with after-hours support for events required on occasion.

About the Company

We are a leading international legal business with over 2,900 colleagues and a diverse range of capabilities. We have 11 offices in the UK as well as offices in Dublin, Madrid, Paris, Milan, Rome, Singapore, Argentina Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Miami. We also have associations/alliances with firms in Malaysia, Brazil, Peru, Central America, the USA, Australia and Germany.

We are a broad-based commercial firm with a strong heritage in insurance, health and real estate. This is complemented by a fast-growing Business Advisory capability. We represent a wide range of clients, ranging from household names to government departments and NHS bodies. We act for all of the UK’s top-ten insurers, we are market leaders in the provision of strategic, commercial and regulatory advice to providers and commissioners in the health sector, and in real estate we advise all of the UK’s top-12 housebuilders.

We have an impressive legal pedigree, with 142 Chambers UK 2021 practice area and individual lawyer rankings. In Legal 500 UK 2021, the firm received a top tier ranking for 37 of its practice areas, and 58 DACB lawyers were singled out in the ‘Leading Individual' rankings.

Our successes have been recognised by the legal industry and the markets in which we operate. These accolades include two top prizes in the ‘Excellence in Business Development’ and ‘Excellence in Technology & Innovation’ categories of the 2020 Law Society Excellence Awards – the highest accolade for law firms in England & Wales. Our health sector team won the ‘Crisis Management Team of the Year’ award at the 2020 British Legal Awards for its support to the NHS at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, and our Cyber & Data Risk team received the ‘Business Development Innovation Award’ at the 2020 Legal Innovation Awards, as well as ‘Cyber Law Firm of the Year’ at the prestigious Insurance Insider Cyber Rankings Awards, for its market-leading suite of digital tools to help our clients prepare for and respond to cyber and data risk crises.

Our vision is to be leading business advisers, recognised for our insight and our outstanding commitment to clients, and for being the place where talented people want to work. For further details on our work and our culture, please visit www.dacbeachcroft.com.

Application Details

At DAC Beachcroft, we don’t just accept your differences we celebrate them.  From bespoke solutions for our clients, to treating you like an individual.  Our strength comes from your diverse ideas and bringing the whole you to work. So if you’re good at what you do, come as you are.  We welcome direct applications and are happy to talk flexible working.

We also want you to be at your very best.  Please feel free to let us know of any changes we can make at any point in the recruitment process that will help support your application.  If this opportunity sounds of interest to you, please make an application and submit your CV.  Your application will be dealt with in the strictest of confidence.

Note for Recruitment Agencies – the DAC Beachcroft recruitment team is responsible for managing all current vacancies through direct hiring and referrals wherever possible.  We do work with recruitment agencies and where we require external support we will formally release those vacancies to the agencies on our Preferred Supplier List deemed best placed to assist us.  Speculative CVs sent by any agency to any DAC Beachcroft employee without a specific request by the recruitment team will not be accepted and with no introduction fee applicable.  Our recruitment team can be contacted at recruitment@dacbeachcroft.com

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