Location: City of London.

Reporting to the Head of Meetings, the Programmes Assistant will play a central role in helping to generate, research and develop events for OMFIF members in Europe and other regions of the world. Candidates must demonstrate a strong commercial outlook, exceptional organisational and interpersonal skills. The multi-faceted role involves helping to research and write conference programmes, assisting with shaping content of the events and hosting them on the day.

Responsibilities

• Research and assist with writing programmes for meetings including lectures, briefings, roundtables and panels
• Research and invite speakers and moderators to participate
• Support the programmes managers in creating pre-event briefing and protocol documents for speakers and attendees
• Liaise with membership department to create suitable meetings of interest to existing and potential members
• Coordinate post-meeting written summary
• Assist with maintaining relationships with member organisations, central banks, finance ministries and treasuries
• Perform outreach to global public investors with whom OMFIF has not yet worked
• Attend London-based and potentially some international meetings
• Answer queries and provide information to stakeholders before, during and after a meeting
• Provide administrative support to rest of meetings team when needed
• Working with multipliers to increase the reach of our open meetings

Skills

• An interest in economics, politics and foreign affairs; conversant in economic terminology
• Ability to translate current events into topics for meeting programmes
• Strong teamwork, organisational and communication skills
• Excellent written and oral skills
• Attention to detail
• MS Office, including Word and Excel
• Salesforce or other CRM system
• Ability to work collaboratively as well as independently as required
• Qualifications and experience

Relevant degree

• Additional European language a plus
• Prior role within public or private area of finance sector preferred
• Demonstrable ability to write/edit material such as (but not limited to) programme briefings or articles