Our work is driven by a passionate belief that our contribution as housing professionals is vital to making communities great places to live and work. Our unique position as the voice of the sector gives the people that work for us great opportunities to shape the future of housing. We’re looking for the best of the best to join us.
- Job title: Events coordinator
- Location: Hybrid - Home/Coventry office
- Job type: Full time
- Contract type: Permanent
- Hours: 35 hours per week
- Salary: £24,334 - £28,840
- Closing date: 10 August 2025
We’re looking for two highly organised and enthusiastic events co-ordinators to join CIH’s events team and play a key role in delivering high quality events across the UK. You’ll be someone who thrives in a fast-paced environment, can manage multiple tasks with confidence and have a keen eye for detail. If you’re a natural problem solver with a ‘can-do’ attitude and a passion for delivering exceptional experiences, we want to hear from you.
In this role, you’ll be part of an operations team responsible for the smooth running of our conferences, virtual events and awards ceremonies. You’ll take the lead on event admin, supporting marketing campaigns and liaising with internal teams to ensure everything runs on time and to budget.
- Job title: Events manager
- Location: Hybrid - Home/Coventry office
- Job type: Full time
- Contract type: Permanent
- Hours: 35 hours per week
- Salary: £40,016 – £45,971
- Closing date: 13 August 2025
We’re seeking a dynamic and experienced Events Manager to lead the successful delivery of CIH’s UK-wide events programme. This role is key to driving strategic member engagement and income generation through an impactful and well-executed calendar of conferences, awards, and webinars.
Benefits that make a real difference
We want you to enjoy working at CIH, so it’s really important to us that we offer benefits that you value. Take a look below at some of the things you can take advantage of when you join us:*
- 25 days holiday, plus eight bank holidays as standard (pro-rated for part-time colleagues) plus, gifted days off over Christmas and New Year
- Flexible working to accommodate your work and personal commitments – we value outcomes and recognise that everyone has a unique working style
- Holiday purchase scheme.
- Access to our employee assistance programme for life’s challenges
- Policies to support you with big life changes or difficult times, such as the menopause and caring responsibilities
- Enhanced maternity and paternity packages
- Private health care with the option to purchase for family members
- Generous sick pay allowance
- Financial support for eye test and help with the cost of glasses
- Cycle to work scheme.
- Access to CIH benefits, including our employee discount portal, Let’s Connect – tech scheme, and gym membership discounts
- Income protection scheme in case of extended period of illness
- Death in service benefit equivalent to three times your salary
- Helping you save for the future by contributing to a defined contribution pension scheme
- Access to Wagestream – a financial wellbeing platform to help you manage your wages.
- Full CIH membership – access all our member-exclusive content to build your housing knowledge
- A commitment to your professional development
- A flexible office space encouraging collaborative working.
We embrace hybrid working and encourage everyone in CIH to work from a location that suits them and our business needs.
No role is exclusively remote. Organisational cohesiveness is important to our overall performance; we value the benefits of coming together with colleagues to enable the cohesiveness of teams, departments, and collaborative working across CIH. This, and our operating model, means that there will be times when you are required to go to your local office, another CIH office, or another location such as a CIH event.
Your contracted office will usually be the CIH office that is the closest to where you live. CIH office locations can be found here – Contact details | Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH)
If you have any questions about our hybrid working policy or live more remotely, please contact us to ask how this would work in practice for the role you are applying for.
*Subject to availability in Republic of Ireland
