Head of East London Sport Events

About Us

East London Sport is committed to creating an inclusive, welcoming, and supportive environment where physical activity and wellbeing are accessible to all. Working across our Docklands, Stratford and USS campuses, we support students, staff, and the wider community through a range of health, wellbeing, and engagement programmes.

We pride ourselves on a culture that values collaboration, evidence-informed practice, and meaningful impact. Diversity, equity and inclusion are central to how we work, and we actively encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds. Our teams work closely with internal and external partners to deliver programmes that positively influence physical and mental wellbeing across our communities.

About the Job

As part of the East London Sport SMT, you will be responsible for the management, delivery, and evolution of the East London Sport events programme in line with university/service strategic objectives, ensuring sustained income, outstanding service delivery through a customer/student centred, innovative approach and raising the service and university profile.

You will lead on event delivery, both at SportsDock and as part of the wider Active Campus Strategy, from creative development, through event delivery to monitoring, evaluation and learnings. You will also be expected to devise new events that support East London Sport’s key strategic aims and continuously develop the profile of our programmes internally and externally.

About You

We are looking for a commercially driven events professional specialising in venue-based sport and governing body events. Experienced in driving bookings, managing key client relationships, and delivering seamless event experiences that maximise revenue and repeat business. Strong track record of aligning operational delivery with commercial objectives.

Benefits Package

Here at UEL we understand it’s about more than just a salary. It’s about the entire package on offer along with our outstanding work environment and inclusive culture. We know the market rates for this vacancy and will offer a genuinely competitive salary DOE.

We care deeply about your wellbeing and our benefits includes: 20% pension (4% from you, 16% from us), 25 days holiday (plus 3 days over Christmas) plus bank holidays, hybrid working for most positions, and we’re always open to consider flexible working arrangements. We have a subsidised gym membership, 3 times base salary life assurance, a cashback healthcare scheme and wide variety of other generous benefits including discounts on: Apple and Samsung products, holidays, clothing, fitness, lifestyle, dining out and weekly shopping.

Further Details

Job Description & Person Specification

To contact the recruitment team please phone +44 20 8223 3000 x 4600 or e-mail jobs@uel.ac.uk

CVs without a completed application form will not be accepted.