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Education Events Manager

Employer
The Christie NHS Foundation Trust
Location
Manchester
Salary
£46,148 to £52,809 per annum, pro rata
Closing date
14 Nov 2024
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Profession
Other Health Profession
Grade
Band 7
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time
The School of Oncology has a national and international reputation for delivering high quality learning and education to healthcare professionals . Staff across the department have a commitment to education development, including research and clinical expertise, working within a culture where education is embedded into the philosophy of the organisation.

You will be responsible for the delivery of events services (including the Education Centre, Events and the Maguire Team). This will include service review and the development of continual improvement processes which inform key performance indicators. The postholder will also have particular responsibility for building relationships with industry and accessing a variety of sponsorship and grant opportunities. This will contribute significantly to the financial strategy for Christie Education by ensuring a funding model which underpins risk across the whole department.

You will be a highly experienced events manager who can demonstrate effective leadership skills within service delivery. You will also need a 'can do' approach in order to support our effective and ambitious events and communications team.

Main duties of the job

The education events manager will lead a team of administrators, coordinators and AV technicians across the events services, overseeing the planning, development and delivery of an extensive portfolio of study days, courses and national conferences.

You will be responsible for the delivery of a range of KPIs, in terms of financial targets and supporting the SoO Education Business Manager to deliver a robust pricing and income generation strategy for the service. You will manage the evaluation processes utilising a variety of tools, to develop effective reports on status and service development.

You will play a lead role in developing a marketing plan for the service, ensuring that all activities represent the corporate image and reflect the Christie Education strategy, whilst consistently benchmarking all marketing channels to inform decision making.

You will be responsible for a range of staff development opportunities within the team which will lead to more effective working.

About us

The Christie is one of Europe's leading cancer centres, treating over 60,000 patients a year. We are based in Manchester and serve a population of 3.2 million across Greater Manchester & Cheshire, but as a national specialist around 15% patients are referred to us from other parts of the country.

We provide radiotherapy through one of the largest radiotherapy departments in the world chemotherapy on site and through 14 other hospitals highly specialist surgery for complex and rare cancer and a wide range of support and diagnostic services. We are also an international leader in research, with world first breakthroughs for over 100 years.

We run one of the largest early clinical trial units in Europe with over 300 trials every year. Cancer research in Manchester, most of which is undertaken on the Christie site, has been officially ranked the best in the UK.

Job description

Job responsibilities

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Service delivery
  • Develop, and deliver, a programme of activities which reflects Christie Educations ambitions and targets activities should be reviewed and amended in the light of experience, clinical (and other) needs, and changes in educational practice and theory
  • Work alongside other education leads to create learning opportunities using technology to access undersupplied markets
  • Responsible for the delivery of a range of KPIs, in terms of financial targets, governance and quality
  • Implement evaluation processes, working alongside the Education Business Manager to implement service changes

Finance, project management and risk
  • Deliver services within outline budget projections and continuously explore all avenues of potential income generation, including the expansion of Education Centre and Education Events service portfolio and ensuring agreed income targets are achieved.
  • Responsible for reviewing contracts and service level agreements between internal and external clients
  • Work proactively to ensure collaborative and effective relationships both within and outside the Trust to support income generation or increase the reputation of the Trust both locally, nationally and internationally
  • Support the Education Business Manager in ensuring that the service employs robust risk management systems for quality and safety improvement
  • Develop, in liaison with the Education Business Manager, a strategy for sponsorship of activities within Christie Education ensuring that all activity complies with the requirements of the Trust and of industry
  • Implement a pricing strategy for all services within Christie Education which is informed by market research and competitor analysis
  • Utilise numerous analytical methods to interpret and report complex information, facts or situations requiring analysis, preparing reports and options appraisal and solution identification. To be responsible for data collection ensuring that evaluation
  • Continually review the business from an organisational perspective and make recommendations for improvement and change

Management and leadership
  • Use a variety of tools, including market forces, evaluation, etc, to develop effective reports on status and service development
  • To be directly responsible for the line management of the Education Events Senior Coordinators and Senior AV Technician
  • Responsible for the events administrative and operational services within all educational and communication courses
  • Supporting the Education Business Manager to conduct service reviews in light of financial and resource constraints- developing clear service expectations for all stakeholders.
  • To identify opportunities for staff training and development which will lead to more effective working.
  • Provision of reports showing targets against KPIs using information to support operational planning change
  • Balance the outcome to ensure a balanced portfolio which contributes to the financial planning of the entirety of the department
  • Manage and oversee the day to day activities of the Events teams. This will include regular meetings, PDRs and associated HR interventions
  • Leads on specific policies relating to service are

Marketing and communication
  • Creates evaluation strategies to support ambitious service development
  • Develop and implement a marketing plan (working alongside service leads), ensuring that all materials and activities represent the corporate image, and meet the branding requirements, of both Christie Education and The Trust.
  • Develop a range of marketing materials which support the Commercial Strategy and meet the branding expectations of Christie Education
  • Consistently benchmark all marketing channels to measure their effectiveness, identifying any gaps and making changes as necessary.

Business development
  • Take a lead on the development of relationships with major commercial sponsors to increase income generation for Christie Education
  • Draft, write and oversee bid applications for grants from Trusts and Foundations, writing write compelling applications/bids
  • Take a lead on grant applications, meeting with key leads and working with relevant teams to ensure impact of grants is captured
  • Work with key colleagues to develop budgets for funding proposals
  • Ensure the effective use of all financial resources and act as the project budget holder (as appropriate)
  • Identify and proactively respond to opportunities for business development collaboration, cross-fertilisation and co-production across schools and external partnerships as appropriate

General
  • Develop and maintain local and regional professional networks to increase personal and professional effectiveness
  • Work flexibly, including evenings and weekends as required
  • Contribute to the strategic planning of projects, identifying interdependencies across projects/functions, potential impacts on wider organisation, resource requirements and building in contingency and adjustments as necessary.


Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Educated to a Masters level/ or equivalent experience in a subject appropriate to the role.


Desirable

  • Educated to Masters degree in business management or leadership
  • Marketing qualification


Experience

Essential

  • Development of events/learning opportunities to healthcare audiences
  • Management of events, including health and safety/governance issues
  • Management of events, including health and safety/governance issues
  • Budget management
  • Development and implementation of pricing strategies
  • Application of marketing principles within an education or events sector
  • Managing resources and working to financial targets
  • Significant leadership experience and change management
  • Contract negotiation and application of processes
  • Working with industry on the sponsorship of events


Desirable

  • Experience of developing accredited educational programmes


Skills

Essential

  • Excellent written, and verbal communication skills
  • Excellent planning, organisational and interpersonal skills
  • Effective prioritisation and time management skills
  • Ability to work flexibly across teams and build relationships at all levels
  • Application of project management methodologies to support effective financial management of activities
  • Advanced IT skills
  • Ability to undertake complex data analysis
  • Excellent negotiating and networking skills


Knowledge

Essential

  • Training in, and knowledge of, business and financial processes
  • Knowledge of business case development
  • Knowledge of project management methodologies
  • Knowledge of sales and marketing
  • Knowledge of education accreditation
  • Knowledge of contracting processes, and their application
  • An understanding of pharmaceutical industry guidelines in relation to sponsorship of education


Other

Essential

  • Enthusiastic, calm and confident
  • Willingness to develop role
  • Acts in a professional manner at all times
  • Working hours can be regular, but will involve additional and unsocial hours


Employer details

Employer name

The Christie NHS FT

Address

Education Events - H00012

Manchester

M20 4BX

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413-88563-SoO-AK

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