Department: Production

Team: Events Team

Reports To: Head of Growth

The Head of Events is a key strategic and operational role within the Production team of Rapporteur. Responsible for the development and delivery of our events programme, this role will manage a team of Events producers to produce a busy, impactful calendar of events both within our own custom-built event space and offsite at locations within Brussels and beyond.

What you’ll be responsible for:

• Developing and growing our events and live experience offerings and concepts to meet the needs of an evolving market
• Managing a team of event producers running upwards of 80 events per year
• Delivering a programme of high-quality brand and commercial events
• Turning brand and client objectives into creative, impactful production concepts that serve our audience needs
• Managing the cost and profitability of events
• Working closely with internal partners across production, Sales, Editorial, and Marketing to develop and deliver on organisational goals

What you bring:

• You’re a seasoned events producer. Comfortable working within a busy events calendar, able to balance competing priorities to deliver a high-quality programme of events for internal and external client teams
• You pair creativity with strategy. You’re excited to develop new ideas and new formats that align with our editorial and commercial goals while adding value to our audience of EU policy professionals
• You’re a creative thinker. With a proven track record of product innovation, you bring innovative program ideas, inventive formats, and engaging content across platforms.
• You’re a people manager. Able to develop talent, give clear and actionable feedback, and lead by example to bring the best out of your team members
• You’re an excellent communicator. Equally comfortable working directly with clients to deliver events that meet their goals, as you are working internally with editorial and commercial teams to ensure event content reflects editorial and organisational values.
• You have a knowledge of and connection to the market. You understand the EU affairs sector, its structure, its procedures and stakeholder map. With this you bring a network of contributors, moderators and speakers, able to translate editorial concept into meaningful discussion by bringing in the right voices for the right issues to create a forum for debate.

Your experience

• Extensive experience in full lifecycle events production for a media organisation, branded content or agency including planning, production
• Extensive experience on-site technical show management with AV vendors.
• Excellent organisation and project management skills with attention to detail, for yourself and your team
• Fluent in English; French is a plus
• Flexibility and willingness to work in a fast-paced, collaborative environment. Open to working evenings, weekends, and travel as needed.