Awards Judging & Jury Recruitment Manager (Maternity Cover 1 Year)
HybridLondon, England, United Kingdom or Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
Job Summary
Lead jury recruitment and coordination across The Drum Awards portfolio, researching senior industry professionals and managing target lists to ensure panels progress on schedule. Send invitations, track confirmations, and resolve recruitment gaps while maintaining diversity standards. Organise judging collateral, manage Evessio workflows, and plan in-person and remote judging days with event producers. Act as the go-to authority on the judging process, troubleshooting issues and documenting clear procedures for the wider team. Support the handover of B2B Awards jury communications and contribute recruitment insights to inform category structure and awards positioning. Provide progress reporting to senior stakeholders and adapt processes where none currently exist.
Required Qualifications
- Strong organisational skills and attention to detail
- Experience managing complex projects, timelines and tracking documents
- Comfortable working with spreadsheets and database management tools
- Experience proactively reaching out to and securing engagement from senior or hard-to-reach contacts, with the persistence to follow up without being deterred by early non-responses
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with confidence communicating with senior industry professionals
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines in a fast-paced environment
- Proactive mindset with the confidence to use initiative and problem-solve independently
- Good judgement on when to keep processes moving independently versus when to flag issues or escalate
- Strong instinct for documenting processes and decisions clearly, and confidently briefing others on how to follow them
- Ability to quickly build deep working knowledge of an end-to-end process, and confidently act as the reference point for others once up to speed
- Strong stakeholder management and relationship-building skills
Desired Qualifications
- Interest or experience in marketing, media, events or awards industries
- Experience in recruitment, events, awards administration or project coordination
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