We’re hiring - Conference & Events Officer (Maternity Cover)

NB This vacancy has now been filled

The Centre for Research in Early Childhood (CREC) is looking to employ a full time* Conference & Events Officer (in the capacity of maternity cover 9-12 months) to support the organisation's national and international work. Reporting to the Assistant Director, the successful candidate will take the lead co-ordinating role on two high profile and established academic conferences in the year, one national, one international: The EECERA conference 2022 will be held in Glasgow at the end of August the BECERA Conference will be held online in February.

The successful candidate will also work on supporting CREC's other events which develop out of the wide range of research, training and consultancy undertaken by the team. CREC is a well-respected Early Years research centre and the organisation incorporates a research charity, a training company, a European research network and a UK research organisation; the Conference & Events Officer will have an opportunity to work across and support each of these sections.

This post will be based at CREC’s offices in central Birmingham but with some flexibility on working from home. The post is offered in the first instance as a maternity cover role (9-12 months). An annual salary of £30,000 is offered plus generous holiday allowance and pension contributions.

Applicants should submit their CV and a covering letter of no more than 2 sides of A4 setting out their prior experience in relation to the job specification, and their suitability in relation to the person specification.

Applications should be emailed and received no later than 8am on Wednesday 12th January 2022. Please contact Sean Delaney for an informal discussion about the role.

*We would consider appointing the role on a 0.8FTE contract.