At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead the creation and management of impactful conferences across Africa's key sectors.
- Company: Join a dynamic B2B event organiser focused on Africa's growth.
- Benefits: Competitive pay, performance bonuses, and opportunities for international travel.
- Other info: Work remotely in a multicultural team with excellent career growth potential.
- Why this job: Make a real impact while connecting with industry leaders and shaping future events.
- Qualifications: 2+ years in conference production, strong communication skills, and a passion for Africa's economy.
The predicted salary is between 33750 - 41250 £ per year.
About Us
AME Trade is an independent B2B event organizer with a strong focus on Africa. With on the ground representation in Kenya, Senegal, Mozambique, Zambia, Morocco, Mauritius, and Ghana, we deliver 810 conferences and exhibitions per year across mining, energy, oil & gas, finance, and infrastructure sectors.
We are seeking motivated, driven, and passionate professionals to join our team as Conference Producer. You will play a key role in developing, managing, and expanding our portfolio of high-level conferences working in a multicultural, hybrid, and fully remote environment.
What you'll do:
- Own the research: Map sectors, sub-sectors and stakeholders; identify the hottest projects, policy shifts and investment signals; validate market demand through targeted calls.
- Develop agendas that cut through: Translate research into a sharp, commercially relevant programme with defined value propositions; craft session titles, formats and talk briefs.
- Source & secure speakers: Build balanced, high-calibre faculty (industry, government, finance, technology, off-takers); write compelling invites; negotiate and confirm participation.
- Run speaker calls: Lead structured pre-event calls to align objectives, refine content, and orchestrate narrative flow across panels and presentations.
- Speaker management & communications: Own comms from confirmation to showtime bios, assets, briefing packs, session run-of-show, tech checks and on-the-day support.
- Partnership marketing: Shape and deliver contra-agreements with associations and media; co-create content, newsletters and social posts that drive qualified delegates.
- Social media collaboration: Package speaker quotes, session clips and data points into snackable content; schedule posts; track performance and optimise.
- Data & performance: Maintain clean pipelines and tracking; report on research calls, speaker confirmations, partner reach, registrations and show rates.
- Onsite production (as needed): Speaker timekeeping, stage flow and stakeholder care to ensure a smooth, high-quality experience.
- Post-Event Analysis & Reporting: Collect feedback from speakers; provide feedback on the overall programme; prepare thank you letters; proofread the report; recommend improvements for future events.
Requirements:
- Minimum 2 years proven experience as a conference producer, content writer.
- Fluent English (native or near-native); Portuguese or French an advantage.
- Strong interest in Africa's economic and commercial landscape.
- Excellent communication, research, and analytical skills.
- Ability to work independently, meet deadlines, and perform under pressure.
- Willingness to travel internationally for onsite event and speaker management.
What We Offer:
- Competitive remuneration plus a performance-based commission structure.
- Opportunities for international travel.
- Performance bonuses linked to event success.
- Exposure to high-level networks and leading industry sectors across Africa.
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