Recruitment
Do you fancy becoming part of the River & Bear family?
We recruit experienced marketing and events staff seasonally to join our friendly, talented team and also offer opportunities for those looking to break into creative industries.
Internships
We are actively looking for a creative individual with good writing skills and and eye for detail to undertake a one-month PR internship with us at River & Bear.
Whether you’re someone studying Public Relations or Journalism at University or a recent graduate looking to gain some extra experience, we would like to hear from you!
The ideal applicant will have some background already of PR, such as writing and distributing press releases, blogs posts, building up media contacts, using social media, etc.
Please note this internship is currently unpaid, although it may lead to paid work.
To apply for this internship please email a covering letter and a copy of your CV to: hello@riverandbear.co.uk.
Freelance Event Manager (Short Term Contract)
Street Food Warehouse (www.streetfoodwarehouse), a sister company of River & Bear, is a UK wide food festival organisation company who run street food festivals and offer event management consultancy services to third party events. Previous events have been attending to over 25,000 people over three days and have gained recognition of innovators of street food events on a national level.
Street Food Warehouse is looking for an Event Manager to join our team managing our series of street food festivals in nine locations across the UK throughout May – September. Working as part of a growing team your responsibilities include the organisation, management and execution of street food festival events.
Your main responsibilities include:
- Development, production and delivery of projects from proposal right up to delivery
- Delivering events on time, within budget, that meet (and hopefully exceed) expectations
- Setting, communicating and maintaining timelines and priorities on every project
- Production of H&S documentation
- Communicating, maintaining and developing client relationships
- Managing supplier relationships
- Managing operational and administrative functions to ensure specific projects are delivered efficiently
- Providing leadership, motivation, direction and support to your team
- Travelling to on site inspections and project managing events
- Being responsible for all project budgets from start to finish.
- Ensuring excellent customer service and quality delivery
MUST have previous large scale event/festival management experience. Hourly rate negotiable depending on experience. Travel, accommodation, mileage, refreshments included.
Applications can be made to Tudor Barber: tudor@streetfoodwarehouse.co.uk
Degree in Event Management or similar preferred. Full UK drivers license required.