Events Manager in Leeds

Are you an experienced events professional with a passion for delivering high-impact events that strengthen brand, relationships and recruitment? We’re looking for an Events Manager to lead the delivery of a diverse and strategically focused events portfolio at Leeds Beckett University. This is a key role within the Stakeholder Engagement and Events team, responsible for ensuring events are purpose-driven, high quality and aligned with the university’s brand, reputation and student recruitment objectives.

In this role, you will plan, manage and deliver a broad programme of events that support the university’s strategic priorities. This includes responsibility for large-scale, high-profile events such as graduation ceremonies, alongside a varied portfolio of stakeholder, partnership and engagement events. You will ensure each event is designed to tell the university’s story, showcase its strengths and create positive, memorable experiences for prospective students, students, partners, staff and wider audiences.

You will provide leadership and direction to event and partnership officers, project teams and external suppliers, overseeing event planning, logistics, budgets, risk management and evaluation. Strong project management skills are essential, as you will manage multiple events simultaneously, often to tight deadlines, in a fast-paced environment.

Working closely with colleagues across marketing, communications, recruitment and academic services, you will ensure events are effectively promoted, consistently branded and clearly aligned with audience needs and strategic outcomes. You will use insight and feedback to evaluate impact, improve delivery and demonstrate the value of events in enhancing brand reputation, strengthening relationships and supporting recruitment.

• Lead delivery of a diverse and strategically focused events portfolio at Leeds Beckett University.
• Plan, manage and deliver a broad programme of events that support the university’s strategic priorities, including large-scale events such as graduation ceremonies, alongside stakeholder, partnership and engagement events.
• Ensure each event tells the university’s story, showcases its strengths and creates positive, memorable experiences for prospective students, students, partners, staff and wider audiences.
• Provide leadership and direction to event and partnership officers, project teams and external suppliers, overseeing event planning, logistics, budgets, risk management and evaluation.
• Manage multiple events simultaneously, often to tight deadlines, in a fast-paced environment requiring strong project management skills.
• Work with colleagues across marketing, communications, recruitment and academic services to ensure events are promoted, branded and aligned with audience needs and strategic outcomes.
• Use insight and feedback to evaluate impact, improve delivery and demonstrate the value of events in enhancing brand reputation, strengthening relationships and supporting recruitment.

• Experience delivering high-impact events and managing an events portfolio.
• Strong project management skills, including planning, budgeting, risk management and evaluation.
• Ability to lead teams and work with external suppliers.
• Collaborative working across marketing, communications, recruitment and academic services.
• Understanding of branding, stakeholder engagement and student recruitment objectives.

Closing date Sunday 8th February 2026 (2359). Please note that you will not be able to edit or submit a part-completed application form after the closing date. Working here means you’ll have access to a wide range of benefits including our generous pension schemes, excellent holiday entitlements, flexible working, reduced study fees, subsidised fitness facilities and a lot more. We welcome applications from all individuals and particularly from black and minority ethnic candidates as members of these groups are currently under-represented at this level of post. All appointments will be based on merit.

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