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Corporate and Private Events Manager - V&A
The Role
We're looking for an experienced and enthusiastic Corporate and Private Events Manager on a permanent basis to join our busy income-generating events team. Working within the Corporate Events team you will promote, sell, plan and deliver events across V&A multi-site venues for private and corporate clients. The team sits within the Development department and run over 160 events a year, bringing in unrestricted income of over £2 million a year. You will use your experience within a busy events environment to work with a variety of clients planning events from sales enquiry to on-the-night delivery, with a collaborative and can-do attitude engaging with both internal and external stakeholders.
The V&A
The V&A is the world’s leading museum of art and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.8 million objects, books and archives that span over 5,000 years of human creativity. The museum holds many of the UK's national collections and houses some of the greatest resources for the study of architecture, furniture, fashion, textiles, photography, sculpture, painting, jewellery, glass, ceramics, book arts, Asian art and design, theatre and performance.
Our mission is to be recognised as the world's leading museum of art, design and performance, and to enrich people's lives by promoting research, knowledge and enjoyment of the designed world to the widest possible audience. We strive to make the V&A matter to more people and in that context we work to the following six strategic objectives:
- To create a world class visitor and learning experience across all V&A sites and collections.
- Focus and deepen the relevance of our collections to the UK creative and knowledge economy.
- Expand the V&A's international reach, reputation and impact.
- To operate with financial and organisational initiative and efficiency.
- Showcase the best of digital design and deliver an outstanding digital experience.
- Diversify and increase private and commercial funding sources.
- Tickets to V&A exhibitions
- Subsidised staff canteen
- 25% discount in V&A shops
- Give as you earn scheme
- Bicycle loan
- Interest-free season ticket
- Free safety checks and small repairs to your bike with Doctor Bike
- Wide range of training and professional development opportunities
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Staff diversity networks
ED&I at The V&A
At the V&A, we are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) for all and strive to go above and beyond public duty placed upon usbythe Equality Act 2010. As such, we aredelighted to share that we are a Disability Confident Employer Level 2. The V&A makes the following commitments to all applications:
- The Disability Confident Employer scheme offers guaranteed interviews – Interviewing applicants with a disability who successfully evidence the essential criteria on a personspecification and consider them ontheirabilities;
- Providing an inclusive and accessible recruitmentprocess.
- Making reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process so disabled job applicants have the best opportunity to demonstrate thatthey can do thejob.
- Supporting employees and adjustments during employment.
In some circumstances, such as when we receive a high volume of applications that meet the minimum criteria, we may not be able to guarantee an interview under the scheme. In these cases, we will interview only the highest-scoring applicants, from both people with disabilities and people without a disability.
Job Descriptions are currently uploaded as PDF's, if for any reason you require the documents in Word Format, please email with your request.
Deadline: Monday, September 21, 2026 - 17:30
Unique Venues of London
- Henwood House
- Henwood
- Ashford
- TN24 8DH
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