event planner Newport, Newport, Wales
Job description
Events Assistant
20 hours per week
£11.70 per hour
Lysaght Institute, Newport, NP19 0RA
The opportunity:
Linc are offering the opportunity to join their busy team at Lysaght as an Events & Operations Executive Assistant. The Lysaght Institute is one of Newport’s most iconic venues offering a high quality service in facilitating corporate, celebration and wedding events. We offer a stunning backdrop, complete with suppliers to cater for all our events and conferencing requirements.
Fitted with state of the art audio visual equipment, our facilities include small to large sized 1920s Art Deco style function rooms, original balconies, and beautifully landscaped gardens.
The newly refurbished venue has gone from strength to strength and is now a renowned Events Centre to Meet, Learn and Celebrate!
What we need from you:
To help us continue to deliver a high-quality service, we are seeking an energetic, vibrant and knowledgeable person to join our friendly team.
Our ideal candidate will be confident, organised and be able to manage event set up which involves a large amount of manual handling. You will have excellent customer skills, ideally have experience in event management and specifically wedding co-ordination.
We are looking for an individual who is excellent with working to deadlines, managing the day-to-day issues associated with the world of events and leisure and is confident in making decisions. You must be able to work to tight deadlines and be able to make decisions and work using your own initiative. You will be responsible for the direct operation of all large events and be a strong team player, most importantly have a positive attitude to support your colleagues and guests and the willingness work in a busy environment.
Our ideal candidate will also have awesome event ideas to excite our audience.
In the absence of the venue manager, you will oversee the whole operation events, so you will need to be confident in leading a workforce!
The role is part time with the hours primarily being evening and weekend work with occasional day shifts when necessary.
What we will offer in return:
- Wellbeing support
- Perkbox benefits
- Dedicated learning and development team
- Full training
- Free DBS
- Free Uniform
What’s it like to work at Linc?
Linc are passionate, ambitious and respectful. We take pride in everything we do; we are creating a happier, healthier Wales.
We are creating an environment for people to flourish; we offer training, support, and career opportunities.
We offer great work life balance, competitive salaries, excellent benefits, wellbeing support and much more!
Our customers are at the heart of everything we do, so in one word – working at Linc is rewarding.
What’s next?
Click apply and complete the short application form – tell us all about you! You can also upload your CV, but this is optional, so don’t worry if you don’t have one.
The advert will close at 23:45 on Sunday 23rd July.
We reserve the right to close the advert before this date once we are in receipt of sufficient applications.
Before you go…
We are an equal opportunities employer, we are committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and does not condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership.
We aspire to have a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply and join Linc-Cymru. We are aiming to improve the diversity of our workforce in Linc, specifically in Head Office roles. Therefore, if you consent to your diversity data being taken into consideration at the shortlisting stage and:
- You meet the selection criteria for the role; and
- You are from an ethnic background
You will automatically be shortlisted for the next stage in the recruitment process.
