Head of Major Event Delivery
| Posting date: | 06 November 2024 |
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| Salary: | £56,462 to £72,324 per year |
| Additional salary information: | National - £56,462-£65,169 London - £62,045-£72,324 |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 19 November 2024 |
| Location: | M2 3AW |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Temporary |
| Job reference: | 377465/1 |
Summary
The Ceremonials Division sits within the Project Delivery and Major Events Directorate and is responsible for planning and delivering major projects, events and commemorations. Most recently the Directorate coordinated the delivery of Their Majesties’ Coronation as well as parts of Her Late Majesty’s funeral as well as supporting the AI Safety Summit.
We are currently enhancing our capability to deliver other major national events. We are looking to fill a role as head of this team to build the skills and responsibilities on behalf of the department.
The successful candidate will be someone who enjoys working at pace, leading others to deliver, demonstrates strategic thinking and is good at managing a number of stakeholders.
This role will be responsible for leadership of the Major Events delivery team, providing oversight of key work streams for building an event delivery capability. You will lead a small team, with ambition to grow in line with the increasing number of major events Government supports. Major events are seen as priorities for the department, the role holder will need to be able to gain the confidence of Ministers and Seniors and work with them to shape events.
You will lead a team working to help deliver complex programmes, and should be comfortable working at pace and to tight timescales. Your core role will be helping to build expertise within the team and department covering the knowledge and skills required to deliver major events as well as leading planning for those events.
The role will be instrumental in building the department’s operational event delivery capability, as such, you may be expected to:
- be confident in briefing Ministers and Senior Civil Servants,
- design and implement command and control structures,
- operate in a “Silver Command” role on behalf of government,
- work within crisis management and event delivery systems and be able to operate under pressure,
- You will also lead on developing our events Testing and Exercising capability, helping to ensure the department’s event delivery capability is fit for purpose and staff understand their roles and responsibilities.
You will lead on implementing skills, experience and products to establish the team as experts in delivering best practice on event delivery and continue to support delivery of key Bridges planning priorities, such as crowd management, working closely with the G6 Ceremonials lead.