CityCo Manchester
Title: Event Producer
Reporting to: Head of Events
Contract type: Maternity Cover (Minimum 6 months)
Salary: £33,500 per annum

How to Apply

Please send a full Cover Letter explaining why you are suitable for the role, with your CV to gary.williams@cityco.com, by 5pm, Friday 22nd November.

Only applications with a Cover Letter will be considered.

We look forward to hearing from you.

Background

Manchester is the second most visited city in England, attracting 40 million customers to the retail district every year. The city is an international tourist destination and recently featured in the ‘Top Travel’ lists of the New York Times, Lonely Planet and Conde Nast.

The city centre continues to be the main growth area of Greater Manchester. Hotels continue to be developed in numbers, and Manchester is a leading Business Conference city.

The current city centre population of 60,000 residents is growing. 100,000 students are in the city, with over 50% of graduates now staying in the area post-graduation.

Over the last 10 years there has been a pattern of building new, high-quality office space, new public realm areas, and world class venues.

For example CoOp Live, NOMA, Circle Square, Mayfield Park, St John’s, Aviva Studios/Factory International, Deansgate Square and New Jackson.

Every success has a story to tell, and CityCo Manchester is part of the picture.

CityCo Manchester

CityCo is The Manchester City Centre Management Company. We are a not-for-profit partnership dedicated to supporting the Manchester city centre business community.

Our focus is on keeping the city centre welcoming, thriving and strong. Through our various networks, we bring together over 1500 companies from small independent venues to major investors.

We represent the needs of businesses with public partners such as Manchester City Council, Transport for Greater Manchester, Greater Manchester Police, Marketing Manchester, and many others. We report to a Board of influential business and civic leaders.

CityCo manages Manchester City Centre BID (Business Improvement District) and is a delivery partner of Manchester Accommodation BID.

We also deliver the Manchester Business Crime Reduction Partnership and administer the Manchester Pub and Club Network.

Via our Business Support Services, we provide advice and help around planning operations and projects. We link members and ensure the city’s public agencies are aware of what the private sector needs to thrive.

By bringing influential people together and providing expert guidance, our aim is to the make the city work for everyone.

Business Improvement Districts

Business Improvement Districts are common in numerous cities and towns in the UK, and beyond. They are business consortiums that pay into a communal funding ‘pot’ (based on rateable value or a visitor service charge). Monies fund additional services, initiatives and projects that support the vitality of businesses, and the places they operate in.

In Manchester, CityCo has been running the City Centre Business Improvement District since 2013. It is a consortium of c.600+ retailers, leisure, and office operators.

Manchester City Centre BID delivers Operational and Security services, City Hosts, Additional City Cleaning, City Intel, Training and Briefings and Public Events.

Events are programmed to attract extra day visitors and positive PR for the city centre. The current programme includes annual events The Manchester Flower Festival and Halloween in the City (MCR Monsters).

CityCo is also a delivery partner for the city’s new Manchester Accommodation BID: a consortium of c.80 hotels. The ABID delivers support for hoteliers across similar areas to the retail BID, but also Tourism Marketing, Business Conventions, and public events.

Events are programmed to attract extra staying visitors and positive PR for the city centre. The current programme includes SCENE: Manchdester’s new LGBTQ+ Film & TV Festival and Beyond the Music.

JOB DESCRIPTION

The Event Producer (Maternity Cover) will report to the Head of Events as part of a team of producers, and in liaison with the Marketing team. You will deliver large-scale public events in the centre of Manchester to bring more people into the city and continue to raise Manchester’s profile as a leading visitor destination.

Key to the role is the ability to research, ideate, plan, and deliver a range of exciting events across the year that will attract visitors and positive press whilst supporting all aspects of organisation, operations and logistics as required.

Events will be consumer (public) focused – aimed at a range of local, regional, national, and international visitor audiences. All will meet the aims and objectives of the company and stakeholders. Projects typically include collaboration with businesses and organisations across Manchester so relationship management skills and experience with networks in the city is desired.

You will be expected to work as part of a team, but also under your own initiative across several event projects simultaneously. As such, you will be proactive, highly organised, and able to prioritise tasks.

The work will require full end-to-end project management from research to creative idea generation, programming and scheduling, partnership, supplier and contractor management to delivery on the ground and all followed by evaluation.

The ambition is to ensure the company’s public events are of the highest quality, and are aspirational and appealing, attract positive public engagement and set standards in production, design, and programming to ensure they are successful, safely delivered and attractive to future supporters.

Essential Core Competencies

• 5+ years’ experience in delivering successful large-scale events in varied outdoor and indoor public spaces
• Excellent knowledge of Manchester city centre
• Advance knowledge of event logistics and operations
• Creative thinker, brimming with engaging content ideas
• Brilliant organiser, skilled at building effective relationships
• High quality design standards, with a keen-eye for aesthetic detail
• Excellent written, oral and negotiating communication skills
• Problem-solver
• Experience of managing budgets and keeping records
• Advance knowledge of Health & Safety legislation in events
• Personnel management
• Contract management

Desirable Core Competencies

• Established local event industry contacts
• Experience of developing a cultural events programme
• Recruitment and management of staff and volunteers
• Degree in related field
• Media / PR and social media experience

General Information

The role will be based at CityCo’s Head Office: St George’s House, Peter Street, Manchester, M2 3NQ

CityCo benefits include Life Assurance (immediate cover). After the probationary period, benefits will include Private Healthcare, Pension Scheme, Salary Sacrifice for travel, and 27 days annual leave.

CityCo is an equal opportunities employer.

How to Apply

Please send a full Cover Letter explaining why you are suitable for the role, with your CV to gary.williams@cityco.com, by 5pm, Friday 22nd November.

Only applications with a Cover Letter will be considered.