Senior Stakeholder and Events Officer

Salary 36363 - 40777 per annum Permanent Full Time 37 hours per week Preston

The Senior Stakeholder and Events Officer plays a key role in delivering high quality events and stakeholder engagement activity to support Lancashire County Councils corporate priorities.

The postholder will sit within the Communications Team and will be involved in a wide variety of activities and projects from developing and delivering events and stakeholder activity to providing advice training and best practice guidance to the wider council services on a variety of initiatives.

What youll be doing

• Supporting and managing the delivery of corporate events

• Supporting stakeholder engagement with priority stakeholders

• Ensuring high standards and quality assurance

• Working collaboratively with the wider Communications team to ensure messaging is aligned with audiences

• Providing training best practice guidance and support to wider council services

• Supporting insight evaluation and reporting

• Identifying and implementing improvements

What we are looking for

• Strong experience delivering events and stakeholder engagement activity

• Experience ofidentifyingand managing risk associated with events delivery including writing and implement risk assessments and working with suppliers and colleagues to ensure safe delivery of events activity

• Experience of leading or overseeing corporate or community events

• Experience of managing suppliers and partners to achievecosteffectiveoutcomes

• Experience of working in a large and complex environment

Ready to apply

Wed love to hear from you if you would like to apply! Please read the full Job Description and Person Specification before submitting your application.

Please ensure you upload a supporting statement demonstrating how you meet the criteria for the role.

Closing date: Friday 29th May

Interviews: To take place in June

Why join us

In return for your passion and expertise we offer a generous benefits package which includes:

• A competitive salary and Local Government Pension Scheme with generous employer contributions.

• A great holiday entitlement of 26 days annual leave which increases with length of service. You will also be entitled to 8 Bank Holidays 2 additional statutory Bank Holidays and have the option to buy additional leave each year.

• Our staff discount scheme in partnership with Vivup allowing you to access discounts with a range of UK retailers saving on everything from weekly food shops to white goods and cars.

• Access to fantastic development and career opportunities.

We reserve the right to close the vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications.

Job Description and Person Specification