Senior Events Administrator - Contract

Playground Games is seeking a Senior Events Administrator on a contract basis to join its Operations team. This role involves assisting with the planning and delivery of various company events, including wrap parties, socials, and charity events. The administrator will provide crucial support, coordinate with stakeholders, and ensure events align with the company calendar. The ideal candidate is passionate about events, resourceful, flexible, and a champion for Playground Games.

Must Have

• Support coordination and hosting of company events
• Research costs and event options
• Coordinate with vendors, suppliers, and venues
• Raise purchase orders for events
• Assist with logistics and on-the-day coordination
• Write event risk assessments
• Collate event H&S documentation
• Assist with event communications
• Manage guest lists
• Contribute event content to PG Studio Newsletter
• Provide Reception cover as needed
• Minimum 2 years event coordination experience
• Passion for events and hospitality
• Flexible to coordinate multiple events
• Ability to think quickly
• Strong communication skills
• High organizational skills
• Excellent problem-solving skills
• Professional and confidential attitude
• Work on-time to agreed schedules
• Proficiency in MS Office (Outlook, Excel, Word)
• Champion Playground Games values

Perks & Benefits

• Healthy work-life balance
• Continuous learning
• Supportive community
• Equal opportunity employer
• Diversity and inclusion
• Safe, comfortable and welcoming working environment
• Inclusive culture
• Self-development
• Career progression
• Well-being and retention of colleagues

Playground Games is looking for a Senior Events Administrator to join our Operations team on a contract basis.

ABOUT US:

As a first-party Xbox Game Studio, we are passionate about making genre-defining games that are accessible, beautiful, and, most of all, fun.

ABOUT THE ROLE:

Working closely with the wider Operations team, the Senior Events Administrator will play a key role in assisting with the planning and delivery of a range of PG events. You will be providing administrative support for events including wrap parties, socials and charity events, and interacting with a variety of internal and external stakeholders.

Our ideal candidate has a passion for events, is resourceful and flexible, and excited to be a champion for Playground Games and everything we produce.

This is a contract role, based full-time on-site across our three state-of-the-art facilities.

What you’ll do:

• Support the coordination and hosting of onsite and offsite company events, ensuring all events are delivered in line with the company events calendar
• Research costs and options
• Coordinate with vendors, suppliers, and venues to secure necessary resources and services
• Raise purchase orders for events, following process and procedure as set out by the Finance team
• Assist with logistics and on the day coordination
• Write event risk assessments and collate event H&S documentation
• Assist with event communications and guest list management
• Contribute events content towards the PG Studio Newsletter each week
• Provide Reception cover as needed throughout the day including lunch cover and holiday cover (including purchasing/stock replenishment etc as necessary)
• Perform other duties as requested from time to time, commensurate with the role

WHAT YOU WILL BRING:

• 2 years minimum of experience in event coordination/administration
• A passion for events and hospitality
• Flexibility to be involved in the co-ordination of several events at a time
• Ability to think on feet
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal, to liaise with stakeholders and suppliers effectively
• High level of organisational skills
• Excellent problem-solving skills
• Professional attitude and ability to work in a confidential manner
• Ability to work on-time, to agreed schedules and standard
• Good working knowledge of MS Office inc Outlook, Excel, Word
• Be a champion for Playground Games and everything we produce

We believe a healthy work-life balance, continuous learning, and a supportive community are key to creating world-class games.

Playground Games is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, we believe that diversity and inclusion fuels creativity. We are dedicated to creating a safe, comfortable and welcoming working environment.

We strive to build an inclusive culture that encourages, supports and celebrates the diverse voices of our team members. It drives our innovation and connects us closer to our players. We are committed to equity, diversity, and inclusion across age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation.

At Playground Games we recognise the importance of self-development, career progression, well-being and retention of our colleagues. We celebrate difference and welcome everyone to join us and to be themselves at work.

If you require any reasonable adjustments to apply for this position, please contact us on recruitment@playground-games.com