Events Coordinator
Verve
Date: 1 day ago
City: Darlington
Contract type: Full time

About The Role
We’re looking for an Events Coordinator to join our team at our Darlington office. This is a new role introduced as the business continues to grow. You’ll play a key role in delivering our events programme, both online and in person, and work closely with our professional partners to ensure strong, meaningful relationships.
You will report to the Events and Partnerships Lead, but will be embedded across the business, and act as the go-to person between events and the marketing team. Your core responsibilities will include:
Experience in events or marketing is essential for this role. We’re looking for someone who’s passionate about planning and organising standout events, that run smoothly and leave a positive impression.
Some of the key attributes we’re looking for are:
About Us
Verve offers a range of services to financial planners and ultimately works towards two key aims; to help support good quality financial advice firms to grow and develop, and to attract new people into financial services and help train them up, for the benefit of the future of the profession.
Across all departments, we approach financial services with an innovative and positive outlook; our focus is on relentlessly improving and never settling for just doing what has always been done. We're passionate that more people can and should benefit from advice, and it's our mission to make it more accessible for them.
We offer a range of benefits to permanent employees to ensure our team feels supported and motivated. We reward loyalty and offer enhanced benefits to reward employees who choose to grow their career with us, but as standard these include…
Standard Benefits (Based On a Full-time Position)
We’re looking for an Events Coordinator to join our team at our Darlington office. This is a new role introduced as the business continues to grow. You’ll play a key role in delivering our events programme, both online and in person, and work closely with our professional partners to ensure strong, meaningful relationships.
You will report to the Events and Partnerships Lead, but will be embedded across the business, and act as the go-to person between events and the marketing team. Your core responsibilities will include:
- Managing and hosting webinars, including end-to-end event management
- Responsible for delegate liaison – bookings, queries, follow-up – and ensure world-class delegate event experience
- Liaising with speakers and partners – managing / creating visual content (i.e. slides)
- Help to plan and shape our event programme – looking at feedback and suggested themes and topics.
- Manging all technical/AV support – for both online and in-person events
- Venue management, including sourcing, liaison and logistics
- Bringing energy and creativity to keep our events fresh and engaging
Experience in events or marketing is essential for this role. We’re looking for someone who’s passionate about planning and organising standout events, that run smoothly and leave a positive impression.
Some of the key attributes we’re looking for are:
- Comfortable working independently, as well as part of a cross-functional team
- Exceptional organisation skills – someone who sweats the small stuff and is unphased managing a number of events and deadlines.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office, especially Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
- Confident and personable manner who is comfortable facilitating conversation – the perfect event host!
- Work ethic and personality that matches the Verve culture
- Familiarity with online event platforms like Teams and TicketTailor
- A creative eye for improving how events are presented or promoted
About Us
Verve offers a range of services to financial planners and ultimately works towards two key aims; to help support good quality financial advice firms to grow and develop, and to attract new people into financial services and help train them up, for the benefit of the future of the profession.
Across all departments, we approach financial services with an innovative and positive outlook; our focus is on relentlessly improving and never settling for just doing what has always been done. We're passionate that more people can and should benefit from advice, and it's our mission to make it more accessible for them.
We offer a range of benefits to permanent employees to ensure our team feels supported and motivated. We reward loyalty and offer enhanced benefits to reward employees who choose to grow their career with us, but as standard these include…
Standard Benefits (Based On a Full-time Position)
- 21 days basic holiday allowance (increasing 1 day per year for each year’s service, to a max of 26 days); plus bank holidays; plus Christmas close-down and your birthday off if it falls on a weekday.
- Personal development budget (for exams, training, anything to help you excel!)
- Personalised salary structure to reflect your own effort and contribution
- Hybrid or fully remote options available, depending on role and experience.
- Access to lifestyle benefits such as meditation app, high street discount & rewards app and financial wellbeing platform.
- Death in service cover
- Upon completion of a qualifying period, we offer an EMI share scheme, allowing you to benefit both from declared dividends and long term performance returns.
- At the same time, you will become eligible for our enhanced parental leave benefits.
- We've never been a fan of a dress code. If you're hybrid and coming into the office, dress appropriately for a workplace environment, but have the flexibility for that to be whatever you feel comfortable in.
- Extensive health and wellbeing programme and initiatives, including desk massages, team hikes and yoga/fitness sessions.
- Being part of a company with a higher purpose and strong values.
- Office snacks and refreshments
- Open plan ‘living office’ environment – including rocking (or sometimes dubious) playlists, beer/wine fridge, breakout lounge, breakfast club, ping pong table.
- 2 official annual company parties, plus ad hoc team nights out and monthly enrichment sessions
- Office dogs welcome!
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