Events Coordinator

Salary: COMPETITIVE

Location: Islamabad, Pakistan

Contract: Permanent, Full time

Join a purpose-driven organisation where your work helps support learners, teachers, and educational partners across the region. This is an exciting opportunity for an Events Coordinator to play a vital role within our Marketing and Communications (Marcomms) team in Pakistan, contributing directly to the success of our events and marketing activities across North Pakistan.

We are Cambridge University Press & Assessment, a world-leading academic publisher and assessment organisation and a proud part of the University of Cambridge.

About the role

As an Events Coordinator, you will support the delivery of high-quality marketing and outreach activities across the region. You will work closely with the Marcomms team to ensure events are executed smoothly and aligned with our strategic marketing objectives.

In this role, you will coordinate venue bookings, support on-site execution at events, manage marketing collateral, and ensure the efficient setup of webinars and digital activities. You will also liaise with vendors, ensuring compliance with Cambridge requirements, and support the onboarding and management of suppliers involved in events, printing, branding, and related services.

You will play an important part in ensuring that post-event reporting is accurate and insightful, tracking attendance, engagement and key performance metrics. Your reports and media asset management will help shape continuous improvements in our event delivery.

This role is ideal for someone who thrives in a dynamic environment, enjoys coordinating multiple activities, and takes pride in delivering excellent operational and marketing support.

About you

You will bring demonstrated experience from a similar Events Coordination role, and a strong understanding of marketing, logistics, and operations. You will be fluent in English (reading, writing, and speaking) and familiar with branding guidelines, vendor management, and marketing processes.

To be succeed in this role, you will need:

• Strong computer literacy, particularly in Microsoft Office (Excel, PowerPoint).
• Experience using marketing and digital platforms (e.g., Canva, CapCut, video editing tools, Flickr or similar).
• High attention to detail and accuracy.
• Strong time management, organisational skills and ability to meet deadlines.
• Good communication, negotiation and problem-solving abilities.
• The ability to stay calm under pressure and manage multiple tasks effectively.
• A learning mindset and drive to achieve results.

We are looking for someone who is confident, diplomatic, well-organised and self-managed, with a professional and collaborative approach to work. You should embody our values, Empower, Innovative, Responsible and Collaborative, while being a dependable team player.

We are committed to an equitable recruitment process. As such, applications must be submitted via our official online application procedure. Please refrain from sending your CV directly to our recruiters. If you experience technical difficulties or require additional support with submitting your online application, contact the Recruiter.

Rewards and benefits

We will support you to be at your best in work and to live well outside of it. In addition to competitive salaries, we offer a world-class, flexible rewards package, featuring family-friendly and planet-friendly benefits including:

• 24 days annual leave per annum, plus the statutory public holidays
• Private Medical Healthcare – includes a spouse or partner and up to two dependants
• Utility Allowance
• Provident Savings Fund
• Discretionary Annual Bonus

We are a hybrid working organisation, and we offer a range of flexible working options from day one. We will also consider other work arrangements if you wish to work more flexibly or require adjustments due to a disability.

Ready to pursue your potential? Apply now.

We review applications on an ongoing basis, with a closing date for all applications being 4th January 2026. Interviews are scheduled to take place over Teams week commencing 19th January 2026.

Please note that successful applicants will be subject to satisfactory background checks including DBS due to working in a regulated industry.

Why join us

Joining us is your opportunity to pursue potential. You'll belong to a collaborative team that's exploring new and better ways to serve students, teachers and researchers across the globe – for the benefit of individuals, society and the world. Sharing our mission will inspire your own growth, development and progress, in an environment which embraces difference, change and aspiration.

Cambridge University Press & Assessment is committed to being a place where anyone can enjoy a successful career, where it's safe to speak up, and where we learn continuously to improve together. We welcome applications from all candidates, regardless of demographic characteristics (age, disability, educational attainment, ethnicity, gender, marital status, neurodiversity, religion, sex, gender identity and sexual identity), cultural, or social class/background.

We believe better outcomes come through diversity of thought, background and approach. We welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and communities, actively seeking to employ people from a wide range of different communities.