Events Production Manager

Job description

Location: St Pancras

Hours: Full Time Permanent

Grade: A

Salary: £40,950

The British Library is seeking a skilled, dedicated Events Production Manager with substantial and diverse events experience gained in multi-space venues, literary or other arts festivals or similar environments. This experience will cover a wide variety of event types, from conferences and spoken word, to concerts and other music events, pop-up activations in temporary locations and hospitality functions.

This is a new position in which the successful candidate will be expected to take British Library events to new levels of quality, creativity and professionalism, enabling the organisation to build and develop its audiences over the coming years, as well as supporting the generation of commercial income.

The role will be based within the Cultural and Corporate Events team, but will work across other British Library departments, including incoming commercial hires and internal events. It will work closely with the in-house technical team, as well commission, and manage all visiting technical production suppliers and contractors, including digital event producers. It will require proven leadership and management skills, with experience of staff and crew management.

Knowledge of the production process and resource/ timescales needed to realise multiple production requirements is essential, as is an exceptional attention to detail, and to safe working practices.

Candidates will be expected to have familiarity with current and incoming developments in event technology including streaming, broadcasting and immersive, enabling the British Library to move with the times. Researching and recommending new technologies to be incorporated into live projects will be required.

Excitingly, the role will also be central to planning the event production infrastructure of two major British Library development projects over the next decade: a new wing with cultural spaces at its St.Pancras, London site as well as the planned British Library North.

Flexible working will be required, with regular evening and some weekend working, especially at busy times of the year. Time off in lieu will be provided.

As one of the world's great libraries, our duty is to preserve the nation's intellectual memory for the future and make it available to all for research, inspiration and enjoyment. At present, we have well over 170 million items, in most known languages, with three million new items added every year. We have manuscripts, maps, newspapers, magazines, prints and drawings, music scores, and patents. We make our collections and programmes available to all. We operate the world's largest document delivery service providing millions of items a year to customers all over the world. What matters to us is that we preserve the national memory and enable knowledge to be created both now and in the future by anyone, anywhere.

In return, we offer a competitive salary and a number of excellent benefits. Our pension scheme is one of the most valuable benefits we offer, as our staff can become members of the Alpha Pension Scheme where the Library contributes a minimum of 26.6% (this may be higher dependant on grade. Another significant benefit the Library provides is the provision of a flexible working hours scheme which could allow you to work your hours flexibly over the week and to take up to 5 days flexi leave in a 3 month period. This is on top of 25 days holiday from entry and public and privilege holidays.

Closing date: 02 June 2024

Interview date: 20 and 21 June 2024

We are unable to provide sponsorship under the UK Skilled Worker visa for this role, as it does not meet the eligibility criteria required for this immigration route