Event Support

(Highlands and Islands, North East Scotland, Dundee and Tayside and South of Scotland)

Who are we?

CodeBase is a tech ecosystem support organisation and startup incubator that helps people build better tech startups. We help people build and grow better tech startups through community, education, and workspace.

CodeBase has created and delivers startup programmes for a number of organisations including the Scottish Government, the UK Government, Local Authorities and large corporations. We promote and facilitate collaboration in tech innovation by working with startups, scaleups, corporates, governments, academia, investors and the third sector. CodeBase also delivers scaleup and corporate programmes across industry verticals such as law, health and energy, which connect and educate corporates, startups and scaleups.

CodeBase has offices in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Stirling, Aberdeen, Dundee, and Inverness, and a partnership with Hometown Hub in the South of Scotland.

CodeBase offers flexible workspace (hotdesking, coworking and office space), delivers expert accelerator and mentorship programmes, hosts a peer-led community for people in the startup ecosystem to meet and connect with each other, and delivers a wide range of collaborative industry-startup bridge programmes.

What are we looking for?

We are passionate about delivering first class events and ensuring attendees have a first rate experience, seeing this role as integral in helping to support the tech startup community. We’re building up our regional teams to deliver more events and provide more opportunities to engage with our programmes, community and services.  We’re looking for people who understand the organisation and administration required to support events and would like to build their event delivery skills.

You’ll be someone who enjoys working in events and facilitating the connections they bring within a community. You’ll have the ability to support planning and delivery with effective administration and efficient communication. You’ll understand the importance of event evaluation and enjoy collecting the data to support this.

You’ll understand the importance of accessibility, making diversity, equality and inclusion a key consideration through communication and delivery. You’ll be interested in the marketing aspects of events, focused on storytelling and community connection, enjoying collaboration with other teams to share content and ideas.

This is one of several new roles which have been created to deliver Techscaler expansion commitments.

What will you be doing?

Working as part of a small team (with a Head of Regional Engagement and Community Manager) to deliver events in your region including: meetups, social events, conferences, seminars, and digital skills workshops.

• Providing administrative support for events e.g. monitoring the events mailbox, Eventbrite listings and monitoring ticket sales

• Supporting the promotion of events through creating posters, newsletters and social media content

• Supporting hybrid events using streaming kits

• Assisting the Community Manager to set up event spaces and equipment

• Collecting feedback and other data from events as directed by the Community Manager

• Working occasional evenings and very occasional weekends to support out of hours events (using TOIL system to reclaim hours)

What do we need from you?

• Experience of supporting events (online or offline)

• Excellent communication skills (both online and in-person)

• Excellent organisational and administrative skills

• Experience of using event listing and ticketing systems (e.g. Eventbrite)

• An interest in creating digital content to support events

  Please also tell us if you have:

  • Working knowledge of a CRM system

  • Knowledge of the technology and digital sectors

  • Experience of events AV systems

  • Working knowledge of social media platforms (e.g. Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin)

What will you get?

• £25k per annum

• 4 day working week

• 23 days holiday + 2 weeks off over Christmas and New Year

• 10% employer pension contribution on Qualifying Earnings

• 12 weeks maternity or paternity leave at full pay

• Bupa private medical and dental insurance

• Income protection insurance, death in service insurance, and critical illness insurance

About the job

Work Days: This role is 28 hours a week over 4 days (day off to be decided with line manager), 9am – 5pm. Please note that this role will require out of hours working from time to time to cover events for which you will receive time off in lieu (TOIL)

Location: Inverness, Dundee, Aberdeen or Dumfries

Start Date: ASAP

Contract: Permanent

Please note applicants must have the right to work in the UK to be considered for this role

How do you apply?

Our mission is ‘startups for everyone’, and that means everyone. Tech has global and multicultural reach. We strongly believe that diversity is a tremendous asset in every part of life, including business, and that no one should be held back by their background or culture. It is our responsibility to ensure that our team and our community reflects this by being diverse, inclusive, equal and fair. If this resonates with you, then we want to hear from you.

We hire by posting a job description on our website and other online job boards, asking applicants to complete an application form with specific role related questions and to submit a tailored CV. When we shortlist we give people a chance and overlook less than perfect academic performance or gaps on CVs as we know that structural inequalities, mental health challenges and family considerations can be unfairly held against people. We conduct a panel interview and a task as part of our interview process. We then start a 3–6 month probationary period where we encourage open communication to ensure that we do everything we can to set you up to succeed in the role.

Key Dates and Links

The closing date for this role is Monday 4th December at 9am with interviews scheduled for the follow dates:

• Dumfries – Tuesday 12th December

• Dundee – Tuesday 12th December

• Aberdeen – Wednesday 13th December

• Inverness – Thursday 14th December

To apply for the role please download and complete the application form and return to jobs@thisiscodebase.com along with a CV. Please specify which region(s) you are applying for in your application and in the title of your email.  You can also optionally complete the Equal Opportunity and Diversity Monitoring Form. If you would like to submit your application in an alternative format please get in touch by emailing jobs@thisiscodebase.com.

Download the Application Form – Word | Google | PDF (for Google go to ‘File’ and ‘Make a copy’)

Equal Opportunity and Diversity Monitoring Form – Google Form