Ministerial Visits and Events Manager
| Posting date: | 27 May 2025 |
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| Salary: | £41,300 to £44,191 per year |
| Additional salary information: | Plus allowance of £2,300 (per annum) while in post. |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 04 June 2025 |
| Location: | Westminster |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 407758/1 |
Summary
The Strategy Directorate is a central function bringing together Private Office, Parliamentary and legislative affairs, sponsorship of inquiries, arm’s length bodies and entities, delivery oversight, policy development and strategy. Private Office teams act as a bridge between the department and its ministers and permanent secretaries, helping to ensure the smooth running of the department and the effective delivery of business.
The Home Office Ministerial Visits & Events team is at the heart of one of Whitehall’s biggest departments, covering policies of the utmost importance to the British public. The Visits & Events Team sit in the Ministerial Private Office and deliver all Home Office Ministers’ outward and inward engagement.
As part of the team, you will be planning and delivering high quality private, public and media facing events, visits and overseas trips. The key purpose of the role is to ensure that these engagements deliver on the Home Secretary’s priorities, personal preferences, enhances HM Government (HMG) objectives and supports positive media coverage.
This is a high profile, demanding and fast-paced role; you will be given a large degree of ownership for your responsibility areas, which can mean that you are responsible for a number of visits or events at any one time. You will be working closely with Ministers and the Home Office Executive Committee and provide them with the best quality service. The team is a flexible resource and the post holder will need be ready to support colleagues during lively periods as responsibilities can move around to reflect Government priorities. You will need to be both resilient and demonstrate the ability to manage a full workload, prioritising when necessary.
You will need to be resourceful and able to think on your feet; managing risks, weighing up the options and make recommendations to senior officials and Ministers in order to deliver a high standard, sometimes at short notice with limited resources.
Key Responsibilities
Reporting to the Head of Ministerial Visits & Events and Senior Ministerial Visits & Events Managers, the key responsibilities are:
- Plan, co-ordinate and lead on high quality strategic, media visits for Ministers, in order to deliver on the Home Secretary’s priorities and personal preferences whilst also achieving, where appropriate, good media coverage and HMG objectives.
- Project manage, plan and deliver large-scale Home Office Ministerial events including speeches, receptions and summits, working with communications and policy colleagues across the department, as well as external partners.
- To be able to identify and recce venues in advance of Ministerial visits, in the UK and internationally, when required.
- Work closely with Ministers, Special Advisers, Private Office, communications and policy colleagues from within the Home Office and across government to deliver visits and events.
- Pro-actively build peer-to-peer and senior relationships, both within the department and with external partners, to ensure the successful delivery of Ministerial visits and events and to help support future visit opportunities.
- Work as part of a team, as well as individually, to proactively maintain the team’s planning, evaluation and business tools and ensure these are up to date and accurate.
Note: The post-holder may be required to carry out other duties within the scope of the grade and within the limits of their skill, competence and training.
Working Pattern
Due to the business requirements of this role, it is only available on a full-time basis. The post is office based (London 2 Marsham Street (2MS) and full-time office attendance will be required.
Travel
The post holder must be willing to regularly travel within the UK to recce and to deliver visits and events, as well as staying overnight when required. There may be a requirement to travel internationally occasionally, according to business need. There may be a need for some early starts and late finishes, according to the requirements of specific visits and events.
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