Urban Biodiversity CIC – the team behind Newquay Orchard - are looking for a Venue & Events Coordinator to join our team of amazing human beings.
Our vision is for Newquay Orchard to be seen as one of Newquay's great places to hold events, meetings and conferences of all sizes in Cornwall… So, if you're reading this and feeling inspired, that's a good start
We're looking to recruit someone who is proactive, outgoing and friendly; who brings organisation, problem-solving and the ability to work under pressure to meet strict deadlines.
More specifically, we need you to coordinate and manage our events, venue hire and memberships across the organisation. This involves:
• developing a community of organisations who want to deliver activities at the Orchard
• coordinating their bookings as part of our sustainable business operations
• managing various ad hoc bookings from external customers (e.g. meetings, conferences, parties and events)
• managing our cowork space, maintaining membership levels and fostering a thriving community of like-minded businesses
You will lead on the programming, organisation and delivery of the range of community events held at Newquay Orchard, including our Wassail, Summer Fayre and a harvest/winter event. Working with existing systems, you will refine our processes for planning, delivering and reviewing events at Newquay Orchard, creating an exciting offer for our community, with seamless delivery and excellent customer service.
This a full time, permanent contract. The salary for this role is £26, ,000 per annum dependent on experience. We offer an amazing place to work and a chance to be part of an awesome team.
Our benefits include:
● 25 days starting annual leave entitlement, plus 8 bank holiday leave days. Totalling 33 days.
● 10 days annual paid sick leave
● 10% off food and non-alcoholic drinks in our cafe
● A range of wellbeing support including a cash back health plan including employee support programme and access to counselling services
● Cycle scheme providing savings on purchases of bikes, e-bikes and cycling accessories
● Tech scheme giving savings on purchases from Currys, PC World and IKEA
Please email us for an application pack.
Your application form and Equality & Diversity Monitoring Form should be returned via email to by Monday 15th September at 9:00am.
Applicants will be informed if they have been shortlisted for interview by 5pm on Wednesday 17th September.
If you haven't heard from us by this time, then unfortunately you have not been shortlisted.
Interviews will be held on Wednesday 24th September at Newquay Orchard.
As we are a small company with very limited resources, we are very sorry that we are unable to give feedback on applications that are not shortlisted, but we will let you know if you are unsuccessful.