Senior Event Director - Africa Tech Festival
Senior Event Director - Africa Tech Festival
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This role is based in Blackfriars London
We are on the hunt for a best-in-class visionary Senior Event Director to lead Africa Tech Festival and supercharge its next phase of growth. This is a uniquely entrepreneurial role with huge opportunity to make a personal impact on the future of Africas premier tech event. Our ambition is to make Africa Tech Festival the most sought-after African tech event in the world. If you have big ambition and think you can help us realise this vision we want to hear from you.
Key Areas of Responsibility
- Own and deliver the strategic vision and 3-year growth plan for Africa Tech Festival
- The overall design delivery and commercial success of Africa Tech Festival
- Delivering accelerated revenue growth
- Delivering an exceptional experience for Africa Tech Festival attendees and clients
- Stakeholder management with key industry and government representatives
- Leading a high-performing cross-functional team ensuring seamless collaboration across Content Marketing Sales and Operations
- Leading the development of our Connecting Africa media brand
- Being the figurehead for Africas largest and most influential tech gathering
Qualifications :
You will demonstrate:
- Big ambition and strategic vision
- Passion to make an impact
- Entrepreneurial gumption with a go-getter attitude
- A positive can-do mindset
- Strong commercial awareness
- Strong written and verbal communication
- Ability to build relationships with senior industry and government figures
- Ability to effectively manage multiple competing priorities
- Excellent internal and external stakeholder management
- Excellent networking abilities
- Resilience and flexibility
Also you will have:
- Experience of successfully delivering large-scale multi-track events in a fast-paced commercially-focused organisation
- In-depth knowledge and experience of the B2B event world
- Commercially astute with proven experience as a practical deliverer
- Experience of managing large-scale event budgets
- Extensive event project management experience
- Demonstrable experience of the ability to forge positive relationships with multiple different internal and external stakeholders
- Passion for technology and the tech start-up ecosystem
- Embodies humility with a genuine willingness to share knowledge listen actively and collaborate with others
- Experience working in or with African tech markets or with emerging tech ecosystems is an advantage
Additional Information :
We work hard to make sure Life at Informa is rewarding supportive and enjoyable for everyone. Heres some of what you can expect when you join us. But dont just take our word for it see what our colleagues have to say at .
Our benefits include:
- Freedom & flexibility: colleagues rate us highly for the flexibility and trust they receive and most of us balance time in the office with time working remotely
- Great community: a welcoming culture with in-person and online social events our fantastic Walk the World charity day and active diversity and inclusion networks
- Broader impact: take up to four days per year to volunteer with charity match funding available too
- Career opportunity: the opportunity to develop your career with bespoke training and learning mentoring platforms and on-demand access to thousands of courses on LinkedIn Learning. When its time for the next step we encourage and support internal job moves
- Time out: annual leave plus a birthday leave day and the chance to work from (almost!) anywhere for up to four weeks a year
- A flexible range of personal benefits to choose from plus company funded private medical cover
- A ShareMatch scheme that allows you to become an Informa shareholder with free matching shares
- Strong wellbeing support through EAP assistance mental health first aiders access to health apps and more
- Recognition for great work with global awards and kudos programmes
- As an international company the chance to collaborate with teams around the world
Were not solely focused on a checklist of skills. We champion energy and ambition and look for colleagues who will roll their sleeves up join in and help make things happen. If it sounds like a match and you have most although not all of the skills and experience listed we welcome your application.
At Informa youll find inclusive experiences and environments where all perspectives and backgrounds are welcomed. As part of this approach and our diversity and inclusion commitments we are also formally an Equal Opportunities Employer. This means we base decisions on relevant qualifications and merit and do not discriminate on the basis of key characteristics and statuses including all of those protected by law. Ask us or see our website for full information. See how Informa handles your personal data when you apply for a job here.
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Full-time
Employment Type
Full-time
