Event Facilitator
| Posting date: | 06 May 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £24,000 per year, pro rata |
| Additional salary information: | £12,000 for 6 month contract |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 14 May 2025 |
| Location: | Middleport Pottery ST6 3PE |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | Re-Form Heritage |
| Job type: | Contract |
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Summary
Introduction
Are you looking to grow your experience in events and venue hire delivery? Would you like to be involved in planning for the future of an internationally significant Heritage site? Re-Form Heritage are recruiting an Events Facilitator as part of a National Lottery-funded project. We are a growing charity in the UK’s exciting heritage sector, with big ambitions to expand on our existing successes. We revitalize communities through the regeneration of heritage buildings at risk of decay and demolition. The areas in which Re-Form Heritage works are impacted by deprivation, underinvestment, and inadequate infrastructure - places which will benefit most from the regeneration and growth we successfully deliver.
As Events Facilitator you will support the delivery of Middleport Pottery’s events and venue hire offer by supporting our events, venue hire, and weddings. You will help set-up and host events and weddings. This Lottery-funded post is part-time, fixed-term for 6 months, and line-managed by the Events & Venue Hire Manager.
Your core tasks will include:
• Hands on delivery and hosting of room hires, events, learning activities and weddings
• Setting up for room hires, events, learning activities and weddings
• Communicating and supporting clients, delivering exceptional customer service to meet their expectations
• Replying to queries coming to the events e-mail address and phone
• Contributing event-related social media content to the Marketing & Communications Manager
JOB INFORMATION
Necessary Skills and Qualifications
• Experience of supporting delivery of events
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Strong organisational skills
• Experience of replying to queries from the general public
Preferred Skills and Qualifications
• Experience of delivering events at a visitor attraction
• Degree in event planning, heritage, or related field
• Knowledge of the heritage sector
• Up-to-date knowledge of the latest trends and best practices in delivering events programmes
• Experience of developing new event offers
Time: Full-time
Salary: £12,000 (£24 000 FTE)
Duration: 6 months
Location: Middleport Pottery, Stoke-on-Trent
About Re-Form Heritage
Re-Form Heritage is an independent charity which specialises in the restoration and rejuvenation of heritage buildings at risk of decay or demolition. Re-Form Heritage’s objective is to transform historic buildings into local assets, creating job opportunities and catalysing wider social and economic benefit. Re-Form Heritage owns and manages Middleport Pottery and Harper Street in Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent. It also owns the Old Duchy Palace in Lostwithiel, Cornwall, which is operated by our partners at the Cornish Buildings Preservation Trust. Re-Form Heri
Our offices are located at Middleport Pottery in Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent. Office-based staff enjoy the opportunity to work at the Grade II*-listed Middleport Pottery on the banks of the Trent & Mersey Canal, the last continuously operating Victorian pottery factory in Stoke, and one of the most important industrial heritage sites in the west Midlands.
Re-Form Heritage particularly welcomes applications from Black, Asian, other ethnic minority, and disabled candidates, as these are all currently underrepresented on our staff.
For more information about our work and our sites, please visit our website: https://re-form.org/
How to Apply
Application is via submission of a cover letter (of no more than two pages) and CV.
Close of applications is 14th May 2025.
Please send applications and any queries to lucy.siebert@re-form.org. Please put ‘Re-Form Heritage Events Facilitator’ as the subject header of application and query e-mails.
Are you looking to grow your experience in events and venue hire delivery? Would you like to be involved in planning for the future of an internationally significant Heritage site? Re-Form Heritage are recruiting an Events Facilitator as part of a National Lottery-funded project. We are a growing charity in the UK’s exciting heritage sector, with big ambitions to expand on our existing successes. We revitalize communities through the regeneration of heritage buildings at risk of decay and demolition. The areas in which Re-Form Heritage works are impacted by deprivation, underinvestment, and inadequate infrastructure - places which will benefit most from the regeneration and growth we successfully deliver.
As Events Facilitator you will support the delivery of Middleport Pottery’s events and venue hire offer by supporting our events, venue hire, and weddings. You will help set-up and host events and weddings. This Lottery-funded post is part-time, fixed-term for 6 months, and line-managed by the Events & Venue Hire Manager.
Your core tasks will include:
• Hands on delivery and hosting of room hires, events, learning activities and weddings
• Setting up for room hires, events, learning activities and weddings
• Communicating and supporting clients, delivering exceptional customer service to meet their expectations
• Replying to queries coming to the events e-mail address and phone
• Contributing event-related social media content to the Marketing & Communications Manager
JOB INFORMATION
Necessary Skills and Qualifications
• Experience of supporting delivery of events
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Strong organisational skills
• Experience of replying to queries from the general public
Preferred Skills and Qualifications
• Experience of delivering events at a visitor attraction
• Degree in event planning, heritage, or related field
• Knowledge of the heritage sector
• Up-to-date knowledge of the latest trends and best practices in delivering events programmes
• Experience of developing new event offers
Time: Full-time
Salary: £12,000 (£24 000 FTE)
Duration: 6 months
Location: Middleport Pottery, Stoke-on-Trent
About Re-Form Heritage
Re-Form Heritage is an independent charity which specialises in the restoration and rejuvenation of heritage buildings at risk of decay or demolition. Re-Form Heritage’s objective is to transform historic buildings into local assets, creating job opportunities and catalysing wider social and economic benefit. Re-Form Heritage owns and manages Middleport Pottery and Harper Street in Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent. It also owns the Old Duchy Palace in Lostwithiel, Cornwall, which is operated by our partners at the Cornish Buildings Preservation Trust. Re-Form Heri
Our offices are located at Middleport Pottery in Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent. Office-based staff enjoy the opportunity to work at the Grade II*-listed Middleport Pottery on the banks of the Trent & Mersey Canal, the last continuously operating Victorian pottery factory in Stoke, and one of the most important industrial heritage sites in the west Midlands.
Re-Form Heritage particularly welcomes applications from Black, Asian, other ethnic minority, and disabled candidates, as these are all currently underrepresented on our staff.
For more information about our work and our sites, please visit our website: https://re-form.org/
How to Apply
Application is via submission of a cover letter (of no more than two pages) and CV.
Close of applications is 14th May 2025.
Please send applications and any queries to lucy.siebert@re-form.org. Please put ‘Re-Form Heritage Events Facilitator’ as the subject header of application and query e-mails.