Conference & Events Coordinator
Company
Location
Newton St Loe, Bath BA2 9BN
Employment Hours
New Jobs
Salary
£30,180 - £33,662 a year
Job Highlights
- Manage and coordinate diverse events, including graduations and seminars, ensuring smooth execution from concept to delivery.
- Highly organised individual with event coordination experience, strong communication, and a customer-focused approach required.
- Based in Bath, this role offers a dynamic environment with varied responsibilities and the chance to engage with multiple stakeholders.
Job Requirements/Description
Are you passionate about creating unforgettable experiences? As a Conference & Events Coordinator, you'll play a key role in delivering exceptional events across Bath Spa University.
From graduations, conferences and seminars to summer schools, you'll help bring a diverse range of events to life. With strong event planning and coordination skills, you'll manage events from initial concept through to delivery, ensuring every detail is carefully executed and every event runs smoothly.
You'll thrive in a fast-paced environment where no two days are the same.
You’ll be the first point of contact for clients, converting enquiries into bookings and ensuring every detail is perfectly planned and executed. From coordinating venues, catering, and accommodation to managing casual staff and liaising with internal departments, you’ll oversee events from start to finish.
You’ll also support marketing efforts, monitor budgets, and ensure compliance with health and safety standards, all while keeping the customer experience front and centre.
You’ll be a highly organised and customer-focused individual who enjoys managing multiple priorities and delivering exceptional experiences. With excellent communication and relationship-building skills, you’ll be confident working with a wide range of stakeholders, from students and academic colleagues to commercial clients and external suppliers.
Salary Grade 5 - Starting from £30,180 rising to £33,662 per annum
The salary range shows the potential maximum pay progression in addition to any annual inflationary increase to your pay. Please note that our default position is to appoint into the lower end of the range, unless there are exceptional circumstances.
This role is based at our Newton Park Campus with requirement to travel to our other sites when needed.
Interview Date - Monday 9th November 2026 (In person)
Please note that as of April 2024, there has been a change in the UK’s sponsorship threshold. Regrettably as the salary for this role falls beneath this, you will not be eligible for sponsorship therefore your application will automatically be rejected.
Staff Benefits
We offer a wide range of great benefits at BSU, including
We are a community of colleagues, striving for excellence to ensure students thrive. Our values are:
In light of this, for most vacancies it will be unlikely that permission to work in the UK would be granted.
For further information please click here to visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.
Description
Are you passionate about creating unforgettable experiences? As a Conference & Events Coordinator, you'll play a key role in delivering exceptional events across Bath Spa University.
From graduations, conferences and seminars to summer schools, you'll help bring a diverse range of events to life. With strong event planning and coordination skills, you'll manage events from initial concept through to delivery, ensuring every detail is carefully executed and every event runs smoothly.
You'll thrive in a fast-paced environment where no two days are the same.
About the Role
You’ll be the first point of contact for clients, converting enquiries into bookings and ensuring every detail is perfectly planned and executed. From coordinating venues, catering, and accommodation to managing casual staff and liaising with internal departments, you’ll oversee events from start to finish.
You’ll also support marketing efforts, monitor budgets, and ensure compliance with health and safety standards, all while keeping the customer experience front and centre.
About You
You’ll be a highly organised and customer-focused individual who enjoys managing multiple priorities and delivering exceptional experiences. With excellent communication and relationship-building skills, you’ll be confident working with a wide range of stakeholders, from students and academic colleagues to commercial clients and external suppliers.
You’ll have experience coordinating events, projects or operational activities, with a keen eye for detail and the ability to remain calm under pressure. Comfortable taking ownership of your workload, you’ll be proactive in identifying solutions, anticipating challenges and ensuring that every event is delivered to a high standard.
You’ll be a collaborative team player with strong administrative and organisational skills, capable of managing complex logistics, budgets and competing deadlines. Most importantly, you’ll bring enthusiasm, flexibility and a genuine passion for creating memorable events, making a positive contribution to the success of Bath Spa University’s conference and events programme.
Essential skills and experience
Essential skills and experience
- Proven experience in organising events.
- Planning & organisational skills
- Excellent communication & customer service skills
- A flexible approach to working, due nature of events.
Please see the job description for a full list of essential and desirable criteria.
Additional Information
Salary Grade 5 - Starting from £30,180 rising to £33,662 per annum
The salary range shows the potential maximum pay progression in addition to any annual inflationary increase to your pay. Please note that our default position is to appoint into the lower end of the range, unless there are exceptional circumstances.
This role is based at our Newton Park Campus with requirement to travel to our other sites when needed.
Interview Date - Monday 9th November 2026 (In person)
Please note that as of April 2024, there has been a change in the UK’s sponsorship threshold. Regrettably as the salary for this role falls beneath this, you will not be eligible for sponsorship therefore your application will automatically be rejected.
Staff Benefits
We offer a wide range of great benefits at BSU, including
- Generous pension scheme (Local Government Pension Scheme/Teacher's Pension Scheme). This is a defined benefit pension scheme which pays members a secure income for life, post-retirement
- Enhanced paid leave - 41 - 46 days depending on the role (Full Time) - more details here: https://apphub.bathspa.ac.uk/StaffBenefits
- Family friendly policies including hybrid working, flexible work environment, on-site nursery, and a sector-leading enhanced maternity scheme
- Employee Assistance Programme which offers access to on-demand GP appointments, wellbeing support and advice, and access to counselling
- Transport schemes including Electric Vehicle Scheme and Cycle to Work
- Wide range of discounts and financial benefits, accessed through and easy-to-use app
For further details about all our staff benefits, have a look at our rewards page: https://www.bathspa.ac.uk/work-at-bath-spa/rewards-and-benefits/
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
About Bath Spa University
At Bath Spa University, we believe in the power of education to break down barriers to opportunity and to transform lives. We are the Professionally Creative for the future. Professional Creativity transcends subject disciplines, and is just as important for our sciences, education, business and law subjects as it is for our sector leading creative industries provision. We connect learners, staff and external partners with applied research and innovation. We power inclusive growth through skills development and practice based, innovation – intensive learning for all.
Our main Newton park campus is based in stunning countryside just a few minutes from a World Heritage City. We are also proud to offer courses to students at our other campuses around Bath, and in London at our Canary Wharf and Hackney sites.
An impressive 84% of our staff said they would recommend the University to a friend as a good place to work.
Our main Newton park campus is based in stunning countryside just a few minutes from a World Heritage City. We are also proud to offer courses to students at our other campuses around Bath, and in London at our Canary Wharf and Hackney sites.
An impressive 84% of our staff said they would recommend the University to a friend as a good place to work.
We are a community of colleagues, striving for excellence to ensure students thrive. Our values are:
- Respect
- Inclusivity
- Collaboration
- Sustainability
We are committed to maintaining a safe and secure environment for our students, staff, and community. We foster inclusivity, celebrating and respecting differences. We welcome diversity and encourage applications from all backgrounds and genders. We consider our recruitment practices to be comprehensive and unbiased; ensuring fairness, transparency, and equal opportunity for all.
Information about visa sponsorship
Information about visa sponsorship
Under the 2006 Immigration, Nationality and Asylum Act the University has a duty to prevent illegal working by carrying out document checks on all potential employees to confirm that a person has the right to work in the UK.
Please note that the University has a legal responsibility to ensure that all employees are entitled to live and work in the UK.
Please note that the University has a legal responsibility to ensure that all employees are entitled to live and work in the UK.
For some vacancies (those requiring specific specialist skills or in shortage occupations) we may be able to obtain a certificate of sponsorship for a suitably qualified applicant. Due to the limited availability of sponsorship resources, not all vacancies in this category will be eligible for Skilled Worker sponsorship. Sponsorship eligibility will be assessed on a role-by-role basis and is normally limited to positions that meet the University's workforce and immigration criteria.
In light of this, for most vacancies it will be unlikely that permission to work in the UK would be granted.
For further information please click here to visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.
Company
Location
Newton St Loe, Bath BA2 9BN
Employment Hours
New Jobs
Salary
£30,180 - £33,662 a year