Event Operations Graduate, native
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Entry and Junior level
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3-4 days a week in office
Powering campus culture
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21-100 employees
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Salary not provided
We usually respond within a day
Entry and Junior level
London
3-4 days a week in office
21-100 employees
B2BMarketplaceDigital MediaAdvertisingMedia
Company mission
To help students have the best time at university by connecting them with amazing content on campus.
Role
Who you are
- Rebuild problems from scratch rather than inherit solutions
- Stay organised when lots of moving parts are changing at once
- Make decisions in ambiguity without needing permission
- Take ownership of outcomes rather than waiting to be asked
- Enjoy being useful, adaptable and trusted across multiple teams
- Communicate clearly and professionally with different stakeholders
- Do work properly because it matters to them, not because someone's measuring
- Have done hard things that required more than just being clever on paper
- We look for intellectual sharpness, practical judgement and a willingness to get stuck in. Strong academic records tell us something. So does organising events, leading projects, managing competing commitments, working in fast-paced environments, or simply demonstrating exceptional ownership in whatever you've done
- If you have experience in design, content creation, creative production or video editing, there may also be opportunities to support campaign and event content throughout the programme
What the job involves
- 🕒 Contract: Fixed-Term (July – October 2026)
- This role requires clarity of thought, structured thinking and good judgement under pressure
- You'll need to switch between projects quickly, handle competing priorities, solve problems before they become issues, and help teams deliver at pace during our busiest period of the year
- The sharpest thinkers are often the ones who've had to work hardest to be taken seriously
- The people who see patterns others miss are often the ones who've never quite fit the standard template
- The candidates with the best judgement are frequently the ones who've been underestimated, or who've had to prove the same capability twice as many times as their peers
- If that describes your path – if you've had to explain yourself more than others, or if you've done hard things that don't look impressive on paper – this role might be for you
- You'll join our Central Operations team during one of the busiest and most exciting periods of the year as we prepare for and deliver Freshers' season across the UK
- This is a highly varied role designed to expose you to multiple parts of the business. You'll work alongside teams responsible for operations, logistics, campaign delivery, experiential marketing, events, staffing and student engagement
- No two weeks will look the same
- Supporting the planning and delivery of Freshers' Fairs across the UK
- Helping coordinate one of the UK's largest annual student engagement programmes
- Assisting with project management and operational coordination across multiple workstreams
- Working with our warehousing and logistics teams to ensure event materials, stock and assets are delivered where they need to be
- Supporting nationwide Freshers tours and experiential campaigns
- Helping coordinate staffing schedules, recruitment activity and event personnel
- Assisting campaign delivery teams to ensure advertiser campaigns are executed successfully
- Supporting the experiential delivery team with live activations and event execution
- Working with student audience teams to drive engagement and participation
- Contributing to the planning and delivery of the Big Student Lock-In Freshers Finale in London on 3 October
- Maintaining documentation, trackers and operational systems that help teams stay aligned
- Identifying opportunities to improve processes and remove operational bottlenecks
- Jumping into whatever needs doing to help the wider business succeed during peak delivery periods
- Most graduate programmes expose you to one team
- This programme exposes you to a business
- Over three months you'll work across operations, logistics, live events, campaign delivery, staffing, audience engagement and experiential marketing, building a broad understanding of how large-scale student campaigns and experiences are planned and delivered
- You'll gain practical experience in:
- Event Operations
- Project Management
- Logistics & Supply Chain Coordination
- Campaign Delivery
- Experiential Marketing
- Stakeholder Management
- Live Event Execution
- Resource Planning
- Process Improvement
- Startup Operations
- If you're unsure exactly where your career will take you, but know you enjoy organising things, solving problems and making projects happen, this is an opportunity to learn from multiple disciplines in a fast-moving environment
- This programme runs throughout our busiest and most exciting delivery period, from July through to the completion of Freshers' season
- You'll leave with hands-on experience delivering large-scale campaigns, events and operational projects alongside experienced teams responsible for reaching millions of students across the UK
- While the programme itself is fixed-term, outstanding performers may be considered for future opportunities within native as the business continues to grow
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Native is a platform that helps connect students with amazing experiences and have the best time at university. The idea came to life when native’s CEO, Nick Musto, realised that finding the best event or experience was near impossible amongst a sea of information at university.
Native has now evolved to empower Students’ Unions with technology and services designed to bring more content onto campuses, and allow students to seamlessly engage with it. The company has also brought hundreds of content-based shows to the university space, ranging from quiz nights to DJ sets to Q&A talks.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (1 round)
Jul 2021
$3.5m
LATE VC
Total funding: $3.5m
Company benefits
- Share options
- Your birthday off
- Season ticket loan scheme
- Flexible working
- Dog-friendly office
- Wellbeing monthly budget
- Extended Christmas break
- Pick your kit
- Wednesday lunch on us
Company values
- We Deliver For Students
- We Are Building The Ecosystem
- We Never Stand Still
- We Have Freedom With Accountability
- We Lift Everybody Up
Company HQ
London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Nicolas Musto
(Founder & CEO)Earned a degree in Mathematics from the University of Sussex.
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