The Opportunity
Cardiff Met Conferences operate within Commercial Services to generate additional revenue for the university through the promotion and sale of facilities and services to host a range of meetings and events.
You will be an enthusiastic and friendly professional with excellent communication and interpersonal skills, coupled with the ability and desire to provide the highest levels of customer service. As an integral part of the team you will be passionate to achieve targets both individually and within the team. You will be involved in all aspects of conference and event administration and will provide valuable support to the team in coordinating events from initial enquiry through to event feedback.
This is an exciting opportunity to join a supportive and ambitious team and would suit an enthusiastic and career driven individual. Along with the experience you’ll gain you will have lots of opportunity to develop your skills and knowledge to help you progress within your career.
The role will involve:
What we are looking for
Why join Cardiff Metropolitan University?
We're delighted to have recently won two prestigious awards – the Times Higher Education UK and Ireland University of the Year 2021 and The Times and The Sunday Times Good University Guide Welsh University of the Year 2021.The conference teamwork with an extensive range of organisations across the country and world-wide, providing outstanding facilities for conferences and events and bringing additional revenue and visitors to the university. It’s an exciting, busy, and fun role, where each day can be very different; you’ll make lots of new contacts along the way and work with many great people across the University.
We are a small and passionate team that pride ourselves on offering the highest standard of customer service to all visitors to the university. Past client testimonials can be found here.
Further information regarding our services can be found here.
In addition, the University offers highly competitive terms and conditions including:
If you would like to talk with us about this opportunity please contact Clare Brockway, Conference Manager, at cbrockway@cardiffmet.ac.uk or phone 07342 719175.
Should a high volume of applications be received, we may need to close this vacancy early. We therefore encourage you to apply as early as possible.
The University is committed to creating a highly inclusive culture. We offer family friendly and flexible working arrangements and a range of staff networks, forums and events to support and develop our people. We warmly welcome applications from those traditionally underrepresented in the higher education sector.
Further information
Please read our Candidate Pack or visit our staff recruitment website for information about working for us, our culture, benefits, work-life balance and our career progression and development opportunities.