Start date: As soon as possible! Our current brilliant events manager who we are gong to miss, is moving down South and we'd love as much crossover as possible to get you trained up and ready to rock!
We are looking for a fun & friendly, passionate and hard working person to join us as Events Manager at Tap Social Movement.
A bit about us? Tap Social Movement is a craft brewery, bakery, and hospitality social enterprise that provides training and employment for people in prison and prison leavers to help turn lives around and reduce reoffending. To date we have created more than 100,000 hours of paid employment for people from prison. Tap Social currently maintains four venues across Oxfordshire: our flagship Botley Taproom, The Market Tap, Proof Social Bakehouse, and Tap Social at Lock29.
We are looking for someone to plan, manage, and execute the events calendar for all of our unique venues, focusing predominantly on the Botley Taproom, the Market Tap, alongside external pop ups & trade opportunities. The right candidate will have a detailed understanding of each venue and what their events programming should look like. We have a very varied schedule of events that regularly run featuring pub quizzes, live jazz, beer festivals, spoken word events and live wrestling! There really is no limit on where your imagination can take you!
Alongside the events in our own venues, we also book in and plan a host of pop up events across Oxfordshire.
Suitable candidates must be extremely organised, manage their own time well, and have exceptional communication skills. The Events Manager will report to the Area Manager, and will support venue managers & the Brewery in coordinating and running events.
Main Responsibilities
- Maintaining and continuing to build an expansive calendar of events across our venue
- Nurturing relationships with existing bookings and building and growing new ones
- Overseeing the finances, setting budgets, and recording expenditure of each event
- Being the point of contact for each venue regarding events
- Planning & executing the multiple pop up events we often run
- Being the lead and working alongside the Brewery Operations manager on the planning & execution of trade opportunities
- Providing the marketing team with accurate and timely information about each event, and assisting with the creation and distribution of promotional material
Our venues
The Taproom
This was our first ever site, set up in late 2016 and home to our first 1000L brew kit. In January 2017 we opened the doors to the taproom, and since that time we've grown to Tripadvisor's #1 nightlife destination, hosting a wide range of events including live music, festivals, yoga, community fundraisers, weddings, business conferences, live wrestling, and everything in between. You can also grab a hand stretched pizza from Proof Pizza while you're here - made with sourdough bases from our bakery.
The Market Tap
The Market Tap is a cafe, bar, and bottle shop featuring fresh baked pastries and sourdough bread from our bakery, a range of craft beer on draft and in cans/bottles, and a fully stocked bar of drinks to suit everyone. We regularly host events, live music, workshops and more.
Tap Social at Lock 29
Located in the fantastic Lock 29 at Castle Quay Shopping Centre in Banbury, is our exciting new space which sits along Banbury's regenerated canal side. We're set amongst a brilliant variety of independent vendors in this hub for food, drink, music, and shopping.
Proof Bakehouse
Located in the leafy neighbourhood of Kennington, our open plan cafe is in full view of the bakehouse, and features deli and pantry items from some of our favourite suppliers, and of course - delicious coffee and Tap Social beer to takeaway.
What We Offer
- £32-35k salary depending on experience
- 25% discount across all of our venues and on our products
- an extra day of holiday for every year worked with us and carry-forward 5 days of holiday annually
- a Top Tapper monthly reward competition
- a chance to join a growing social enterprise with lots of continued opportunity
- company pension
- company events and socials
Full time, permanent role. £32,000 - £35,000 DOE, 45 hours per week