Events Production Manager

Location: St Pancras

Contract: Permanent

Hours: Full time (36 hours)

Grade: A

Salary: £42,179 per annum

About the role

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.

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. It will work closely with the in-house technical team, as well commission, and manage visiting technical production suppliers and contractors. It will require proven leadership and skills, with experience of staff and crew management.

Essential aspects of the role are ensuring and managing operational processes; clear communication across the organisation; the ability to realise multiple production requirements, exceptional attention to detail and safe working practice.

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. 

About us

We are the national library of the UK and we are here for everyone. Our shelves hold over 170 million items – a living collection that gets bigger every day. Although our roots extend back centuries, we aim to collect everything published in the UK today, tomorrow and far into the future. Our trusted experts care for this collection and open it up for everyone to spark new discoveries, ideas and to help people do incredible things.

We have millions of books, and much more besides. Our London and Yorkshire sites hold collections ranging from newspapers and maps to sound recordings, patents, academic journals, as well as a copy of every UK domain website and blog. Our public spaces provide a place to research, to meet friends, to start up a new business or simply to get inspired by visiting our galleries and events. We work with partners and libraries across the UK and the world to make sure that as many people as possible have the chance to use and explore our collections, events, and expertise. And we’re always open online, along with more and more of our digitised collection.

What we can offer you

A competitive salary.
A fantastic pension scheme with minimum employer contributions of 28.97% (this may be higher dependent on grade).
Flexible working hours, with the ability to take up to 5 days flexi leave in a 3-month period.
25 days holiday.
Full details of employee benefits can be found on our Careers: Benefits 

Closing date: 9 February 2025
Interview date: February 2025

We are unable to provide sponsorship under the UK Skilled Worker visa for this role.

We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian, Mixed Race and other ethnically diverse candidates and disabled candidates. We would like to increase the representation of these groups within The British Library to ensure our workforce is as diverse as the public that we serve. Creating an inclusive workplace is the core of our business and a way to engage the diversity of thought that is essential to achieve our aims.

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