Marketing Events Apprentice

Summary

As a Marketing Events Assistant, you’ll support planning and executing various events, from corporate conferences to product launches, ensuring everything runs smoothly for an unforgettable attendee experience. This entry-level role is ideal for gaining hands-on experience in event marketing.

Annual wage: £18,000 a year
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Training course: Event assistant (level 3)
Hours: Monday - Friday, Hybrid - Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday in our office in Nottingham. Shifts to be confirmed.
37 hours a week
Possible start date: Monday 1 September
Duration: 1 year 2 months
Positions available: 1

Work

As an apprentice, you’ll work at a company and get hands-on experience. You’ll gain new skills and work alongside experienced staff.

What you’ll do at work

Assist in the planning and coordination of events, including venue selection, vendor management, and logistical support
Collaborate with the marketing team to develop event concepts and promotional strategies
Help manage event budgets, ensuring all activities are cost-effective and within allocated resources
Support the creation of marketing materials, such as brochures, invitations, and social media content, to promote upcoming events
Handle event registrations and attendee communications, ensuring a seamless experience for all participants
Assist in on-site event setup, execution, and teardown, providing support to ensure everything runs smoothly
Conduct post-event analysis and gather feedback to continuously improve our events and marketing strategies

Where you’ll work

One Mere Way

Ruddington

Nottingham

NG11 6JS

Training

An apprenticeship includes regular training with a college or other training organisation. At least 20% of your working hours will be spent training or studying.

College or training organisation

DERBY BUSINESS COLLEGE LIMITED

Your training course

Event assistant (level 3)

Equal to A level

Course contents

Operational: Gather facts and collate information in response to a brief or request, like searching for the right location and venue for an event.

Operational: Respond to requests from the different functional teams and carry out a variety of daily and weekly tasks to assist in the planning and preparation of an event.

Operational: Provide assistance onsite at an event by registering delegates or by helping to assist the onsite team with a variety of tasks.

Operational: Manage your time effectively by understanding how to prioritise tasks according to their importance and urgency for the stakeholders of an event.

Operational: Use software packages to create word processing and spreadsheet documents.

Operational: Contribute to reports, event project plans and written presentations for clients

Operational: Use a range of event technology platforms and in-house bespoke software systems and databases.

Operational: Show careful attention to regulations and internal policies.

Professional: Listen, interpret, understand, vocalise and respond to clients’ needs.

Professional: Speak and write clearly in order to prepare written communications or provide instructions that are needed for a client, supplier or team member.

Professional: Build rapport and trust with the stakeholders of an event so that stakeholders can collaborate well throughout the planning and organisation processes.

Professional: Question effectively to ensure understanding of what is required from clients or colleagues.

Professional: Have the skills to maintain relationships with colleagues, suppliers or clients once they are built, and be able to repair them when they are damaged.

Professional: Work effectively within a group environment to prepare for, deliver and/or follow up after an event takes place.

Commercial: Assist in the preparation, management and reconciliation of event budgets by collecting information, checking data and making calculations.

Commercial: Show how commercial awareness has been applied through task and time management, specifically using efficient and effective measures to conclude a project in the most proficient way.

Your training plan

Event Assistant Level 3 Apprenticeship Standard

Requirements

Let the company know about other relevant qualifications and industry experience you have. They can adjust the apprenticeship to reflect what you already know.

Skills

Team working
Creative

About this company

Ideagen is the invisible force behind many things we rely on every day - from keeping airplanes soaring in the sky, to ensuring the food on our tables is safe, to helping doctors and nurses care for the sick. So, when you think of Ideagen, think of it as the silent teammate that's always working behind the scenes to help those people who make our lives safer and better. Everyday millions of people are kept safe using Ideagen software. We have offices all over the world including America, Australia, Malaysia and India with people doing lots of different and exciting jobs.

https://www.ideagen.com/ (opens in new tab)

After this apprenticeship

Events Assistant / Specialist

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

IDEAGEN LIMITED

Katie Duffy

Katie.duffy@ideagen.com

01157180767

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000284624.

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Closes on Thursday 30 January

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Company’s application instructions

itial application - Fill out the application online. Shortlisting - Once the applications are in, we'll shortlist the most suitable candidates against the person specification for the role. Screening call - If you've been shortlisted, you'll have an initial video or phone call with our talent acquisition team. Assessment centre/skills day - The last stage in the recruitment process is an assessment centre with our talent acquisition team.

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