Assistant Events Producer
Assistant Events Producer
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Job Description
Assistant Events Producer Fast Track Progamme
*Open to candidates who have at least two years of professional events experience*
*The start date for this role is w/c 11th August 2025*
About itison
At itison we believe life is about the experience.
We match our 1.7 million members with the best local experiences; work with over 5000 of the best local and national businesses; create Scotlands most spectacular major events; own and operate some of the best local venues and set up our own charity itison us to give experiences to those who need them the most.
We also believe that the experience starts with us with an amazing culture benefits and working environment.
itison events
itison is one of Scotlands largest event owners and producers putting on world class events for over 300000 event goers annually. Were the market leader at what we do and were looking for the best to join our team to help expand our events.
Our model is to create and fund world class unique events each with their own execution plan business model and delivery teams; usually made up of internal itison teams supplemented by the best freelance technical and creative talent around.
Our goal is to light up the dark months and deliver exceptional experiences that bring joy and escapism whilst leaving lasting positive impact in the communities we work.
Were looking for either an ambitious graduate (with some events experience) or an events professional to join our team and learn how to be the best in event producing. Youll work with the countrys leading creative marketing and inhouse expertise; receive lots of training and support and be mentored by one of our leading events team. This is a busy role where your learning and development will be fasttracked.
Youll be based in our awardwinning Glasgow head office and also onsite at our event locations.
This is a fantastic opportunity for the right candidate with the possibility of longerterm career progression and leadership opportunities.
Whats the role
You will be responsible for mastering all aspects of producing events across the core disciplines of:
- Venue and outdoor space management
- Licencing and compliance
- Building and coordinating design and production teams
- Coordinating an internal team and bank of freelancers to support each event
- Running a production budget income & expenditure
- Supplier management and negotiation
- Working and directing multidisciplinary teams
- Operational & logistical management
- Planning & scheduling overall planning of all aspects of events & timescales including build and derig
- Community & stakeholder engagement
- Development of new events including business modelling ticket modelling and building creative
- Working closely with a designated experienced Senior Producer to support their daily activities assisting with administration and research tasks
You will be paired with our Senior Producer who will coach & mentor your development over a sixmonth period at which point you will graduate to become an Assistant Producer.
During the planning stage of events you will be mainly office based and involved in all aspects of administration supplier liaison planning and scheduling. Once events are live youll be a key face on site leading and motivating our event teams and helping to make sure every event goer has a fantastic experience at our events.
For all parts of this role youll need to be great with people confident dealing with different teams and personalities and have bags of determination and resilience.
The right candidate
We only work with the very best people and were looking for someone supersmart confident personable and energetic who is passionate about carving out a successful career in event producing.
Skills
Wed love to hear from you if you are:
- Passionate about the events industry
- Degree educated with a firstclass or 2:1 honours classification in a creative artsbased discipline
- You have at least two years professional events experience
- An events freelancer
- Intelligent confident personable responsible and resilient with bags of enthusiasm
- A quick learner & good listener with the ability to take instruction and work independently
- Comfortable using systems and savvy enough to learn/find out what you dont know
- Excellent at administration and organisation
- A desire to go the extra mile and make every event unique magical and nothing less than a 5* star experience for each and every event goer
- Enjoy lots of fun and reward but also hard work youll need to thrive in a fastpaced environment be able to think on your feet and deal with the occasional curveball
- Thrive on a handson approach to problem solving and a curiosity to learn
- Strong leadership and a brilliant motivator working on site can be tough youll be responsible for galvanising great teams and maintaining our approach for each itison event crew to have as good an experience as the event goers.
The recruitment process
Please submit a cover letter with your application telling us why you would be the perfect person for this role. Please dont use AI tools to write your letter we really want to hear from you and get a feel for your personality.
If we progress your application the first stage will be a short oneway video interview to find out a little more about your experience then candidates who are shortlisted from this will be invited to an inperson interview at our Glasgow HQ.
If you progress to the final stage you will be asked back for a second interview with some tasks designed to give you a flavour of the type of things you would be doing in the role.
We expect the full interview process to take around 48 weeks (for candidates who complete all three stages) with an estimated start date of w/c 11th August 2025
The salary and benefits package:
- Salary of28k 32k dependingon experience
- Private Health Care
- Salary exchange smart pension scheme
- Employee Assistance Programme
- 15% itison discount & 50% discount in all itison owned venues
- Learning grant
- Paid company socials
- Home & Tech discount scheme
- Onsite gym and lunchtime Pilates classes
- Enhanced maternity/paternity
- Holidaybuy scheme
- Duvet days and Summer school/Winter school (our equivalent of flexitime)
- Birthday day off
- Charity day paid time off to volunteer for a charity of your choice
- Fantastic work unending fruit bowl cereal bar and full bar setup on the office for Friday Prosecco or a healthy drink if preferred
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
