The current opportunity is available for current Manchester Met students, to apply you must be based in the UK for the duration of the role.
AHEAD – Arts and Humanities Engagement and Dialogue - aims to elevate the Faculty in national discussions, advocating for the significance of arts, humanities, and social sciences in addressing issues in society and making a positive difference. AHEAD is a new programme and the Engagement Coordinator is seeking highly organised, motivated, and creative Project Assistants.
As an AHEAD Project Assistant, you will assist AHEAD with their high-profile internal and external events and training. You will work closely with Arts Humanities Researchers and AHEAD’s Engagement Coordinator on all aspects of events organisation and delivery- from researching high-impact future events to providing assistance to our fantastic speakers on the day. This is an excellent role for any student with an interest in events organisation or the policy world to develop their events management skills and make valuable connections.
Successful students will be added to a pool of Project Assistants and will be offered work on an adhoc project or event basis.
Hours are variable and discussed on a project by project basis.
Project Assistant tasks and responsibilities will include -
Event design and promotion
You will assist in the design and organisation of events. This might include:
• Researching and creating an annual events calendar, scoping future high-impact events and speakers.
• Assisting with the planning of these events, including approaching and arranging event dates with speakers, and researching and booking suitable event spaces.
• Producing high-quality promotional materials for events. For example, setting up engaging Eventbrite pages and working with our graphic designer on posters and social media images.
• Creatively promoting AHEAD events to key stakeholders through our Social Media Channels and via our website.
• Admin tasks relating to event preparation and setup such as preparing badges, bags and signage
Events delivery
You will assist with event delivery on the day. This might include:
• Assisting with the set-up of events spaces.
• Arranging promotional materials e.g. posters and ensuring clear signposting to the event.
• Greeting and assisting our external speakers and audiences
• Greeting and checking in guests and answering any queries.
• On the day events promotion, including taking photographs and live-posting.
• Assistant for online events as a moderator or with slide management
• Collecting feedback
Events evaluation and post event documentation
You will help us obtain feedback on events, to inform future AHEAD activities:
• Collating feedback and evaluation data
• Producing event blogs and reports
• Researching creative ideas for events evaluation- feedback postcards, video reactions- we’re open to experimentation!
• Designing and sharing our events feedback form via Eventbrite, and collating responses.
• Sharing key takeaways from evaluation activities with the team to help shape future AHEAD events and amplify the ongoing event outputs
Please note, this role may involve working evenings to deliver AHEAD events.
Dates projects & events will happen: 17 November 2026 - 31 August 2027
Hours of Work: Variable depending on the project/event
All successful applicants will need to be available to attend an induction session on Tuesday 17 November.