Head of Events

Join the Cabal!

Big Cabal Media tells the African stories that matter to Africans (on and off the continent) and global audiences. Riding a wave of global distribution platforms seeking new stories and high-quality local content, and audiences that are consuming ever more content, Big Cabal is building the most exciting new media company to tell those stories.

We create content in a wide range of formats for global distribution, under our two publications - TechCabal and Zikoko. TechCabal vividly captures the players, human impact and business of technology in Africa; providing the content, reporting, data and events to help the world understand where tech is taking Africa. Zikoko is telling the most important stories that matter to young African audiences today, creating timeless and original text, images, memes and video-based content across a range of genres using the most relatable elements of youth culture.

Join us as we take African storytelling to a new level and build the media brands of the future. BCM is passionate about storytelling, technology, great design and unabashed monetization of great content. We’re interested in talented and adaptable professionals looking to do challenging and high-impact work in a collaborative environment.

If this sounds exciting and if you’ve got skills, then we should talk.

Head of Events - Job Details This role will report to the COO. As the Head of Events at Big Cabal Media, your primary responsibility will be to provide leadership on all events across our business. You will be responsible for driving the development, marketing and delivery of events from the idea stage to full execution. This is a high-performing job requiring interaction with internal stakeholders on identifying, validating and implementing concepts, defining guidelines for stakeholder management and aligning project outcomes with overall business objectives.

The right person for this role will have:

• Great project management skills and a track record of delivering events on time and within budget.
• Proven experience managing and marketing multiple high-impact and large-scale events.
• Ability to conceptualize events for different target audiences, ranging from high-end businesses to youth festivals.
• Ability to work collaboratively and cross-functionally with internal stakeholders and bring them along on project deliverables.
• Great relationship-building and maintenance skills.
• Strong coordination, organization skills and willingness to get your hands dirty.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work under pressure and tight deadlines.
• A desire to work in a rapidly growing and evolving start-up with an informal but driven culture.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop the strategy for all Big Cabal Media events with input from internal stakeholders.
• Create concept notes and required documentation for project planning and execution.
• Manage end-to-end execution and delivery of events concepts, strategy and marketing plans in line with the agreed strategy.
• Manage project costing, time estimates and client proposal decks, with support from the BizDev team.
• Establish event processes, tracking and playbook, for ease of event management and replication.
• Partner with BizDev to pitch and sell events to sponsors and partners.
• Manage and coordinate suppliers and internal team delivery, as well as all accompanying events logistics, for successful event execution.
• Produce and monitor budgets and profitability for all events along with the BizDev and Finance team.
• Ensure event and project reviews are regularly and effectively conducted to drive plan, monitor and control the delivery of events to schedule, budget and to the agreed quality level.

Working at Big Cabal Media You'll be joining a group of focused, hard-working, creative people who are passionate about doing work that's challenging and fun. We're a very digital company, working via Slack, Google Docs and cloud-based solutions where possible. We currently have a hybrid-remote setup, with most of the team doing two days in the office each week and working remotely the rest of the time. We typically try to arrange work between 9 am and 6 pm WAT and encourage you to have a good work-life balance, but we are not sticklers for hours. We are sticklers about our quality and results. Our people get things done fast and well. While collaborative work will be the norm and is the requirement, people who want to work at BCM must also demonstrate initiative and the ability to work without creating more work for their line manager.

Compensation and perks

• Industry competitive salary
• 20 days of annual leave
• Health Insurance
• Statutory pension contribution
• Flexible working arrangements
• Access to cool events and travel