Marketing Coordinator
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Event Experience and Marketing Coordinator
CIC (Cambridge Innovation Center)
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Edinburgh • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
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Junior
About the role
- Execute weekly Venture Café Thursday Gatherings and other events for the Venture Café Edinburgh community.
- Promote web and social events on Venture Café Edinburgh communication channels.
- Coordinate inventory including food & beverage supplies, printing supplies, signage, etc.
- Set up and break down Thursday Gathering events, manage program partner bump-ins and outs, set up the Venture Café Kiosk, and place signage.
- Connect with the Venture Café Global Institute to share learnings and support the global relationship.
- Identify and mitigate risks to the effective operation of the Thursday Gathering.
- Collaborate with the ARIA team to ensure a delightful event experience.
- Provide hospitality and community engagement; resolve problems and enforce guidelines in a friendly but firm manner.
Requirements
- Ideally at least 1-3 years of professional events or marketing experience.
- English fluency.
- Great hospitality skills – able to keep community members engaged and happy even while resolving problems.
- Able to enforce the Venture Café credo/guidelines in a friendly but firm fashion.
- Familiarity with social media channels and ability to leverage them as part of your work.
- Willingness for domestic and international travel as needed.
- Ability to legally work in the UK (no visa sponsorship available).
- Customer service excellence, problem-solving skills, openness to learning from failure, and meticulous attention to detail.
- Experience executing and innovating event experiences, engaging diverse community members, and creatively using spaces.
Benefits
- Competitive salary, commensurate with experience.
- 25 days of annual leave, plus bank holidays
- Supplemental medical and dental insurance
- £200 Monthly Commuter Allowance
- Life insurance
- Business Travel Insurance
- Payment Protection
- Employee Assistance Program
- Hybrid work model – work three days per week in the office, with Thursdays required as a core in-office day.
- Travel to Venture Café locations across the globe
- Opportunities to learn and develop skills within a global innovation network
ATS Keywords
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Hard skills
event coordinationinventory managementproblem-solvingcommunity engagementhospitality managementevent executionsocial media marketingrisk managementcustomer service
Soft skills
communicationinterpersonal skillsattention to detailopenness to learningcreativityteam collaborationconflict resolutionadaptabilityfriendlinessfirmness
