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About the Role

The Awards Manager is responsible for managing the delivery and project management of jury selection across the D&AD Awards & New Blood Awards. This role drives research, analysis, and development of the judge strategy, manages jury recruitment and communications, supports awards product development, and contributes to the annual awards review.

Responsibilities

• Develop the Judge selection strategy document to inform Jury recruitment, ensuring it aligns with organisation-wide targets.
• Brief the Business Development team on Judge requirements, to be collated and placed into Juries.
• Build Juries in accordance with the Judge selection strategy.
• Undertake industry research to inform Judge selection.
• Collaborate with the wider team to ensure judging schedules are agreed and communicated to relevant parties.
• Manage the booking for judges accommodation.
• Manage travel reimbursements for judges and guests.
• Manage the collation and display of judge profiles.
• Manage creation of internal Judge documents to be shared with Jury/Master Hosts.
• Manage judges on site during events where required.
• Manage the year-round judges communication plan and implementation of it.
• Ensure an excellent standard of year-round communications to Judges and entrants.
• Manage the training of additional team members (both temporary and permanent).
• Manage the preparation and communication of Judge guides and other collateral.
• Ensure judges have and understand all relevant information pertaining to judging events.
• Manage ongoing relationships with industry networks and holding companies to ensure fair talent representation.
• Oversee the promotion of the Awards on social media amongst our judges.
• Represent D&AD at external events where necessary.
• Identify and manage outreach with potential Judge networks or organisations that can support Judge selection.
• Attend events and networking to identify current industry ‘movers & shakers’ to include in Judge selection.
• Manage the programming of Judges for Insight sessions, ad hoc events and the D&AD Festival & New Blood Festival.
• Keep an holistic view on events when selecting judges, keeping in mind who might also work as a potential speaker.
• Support recruitment of seasonal staff to ensure there is enough resource to cover project needs when required.
• Support in the task management of seasonal staff during the awards production entry project, working alongside the Production Manager.
• Support operations in the accurate cataloguing, storage, processing and warehousing of all awards entries in your category area ensuring these are ready for judging and presented to a high standard when required.
• Oversee the administration of judges of the judging site, ensuring all profiles, access and material are accurate and up to date.
• Monitor progress and status of online judging, coordinating with a temporary team to chase judges where necessary and ensure all evaluations are completed on time.
• Check judges’ abstentions to ensure they are correctly applied, verifying that judges abstain only where appropriate.
• Support in the management and hosting of virtual and live judging when required.
• Manage the annual review and development of designated categories.
• Manage the collation of category feedback and recommendations.
• Conduct and collate competitor research where relevant.
• Identify and report on category trends to inform planning.
• Identify and make recommendations for improvements to entry and awards processes (e.g. formats, systems).
• Create regular reports and analysis of queries, using this to make any changes to the process to improve efficiencies during the cycle.
• Internal and external reporting and analysis on diversity monitoring of awards judges across all programmes.
• Prepare and present reports, presentations, correspondence and any other documents as requested by management.
• Support the Awards team with ad hoc tasks when required.

Requirements

• Must be free to work over D&AD Awards Judging and Festival which is from Saturday 23 to Wednesday 26 May 2027, the Festival which is Sunday 27 June to Wednesday 1 July 2027.
• Hours may be rearranged or time back in lieu for weekend work and overtime accrued.
• Must be available to work over the judging period, which covers one weekend per year.
• Required to curate and manage approx. 60 juries for the D&AD Awards and New Blood Awards in a year-round cycle.
• Required to have a good knowledge of industry luminaries, influencers and others who would lend the right expertise to judging.
• Conducting effective research and analysis and using critical thinking in the selection and assessment of Judges will be essential.
• Required to be a strong written and verbal communicator with the ability to manage projects.
• Having the confidence to steer the creation of Juries and the ability to anticipate and overcome challenges will be essential.
• Having the ability to multitask and to support fellow team members during busy months leading up to judging (March-May) and launch (October-November) will be vital.
• The role requires external outreach to the industry with regards Judge recommendations, invitations and category development.
• Internal communications with the Awards team on a weekly basis will be required.
• Attend a monthly All Staffer with the wider business.
• You will need to provide appropriate documentation that proves that you are eligible to work in the UK.

Skills

• Project management
• Research
• Analysis
• Jury recruitment
• Jury management
• Judge communications
• Awards product development
• Written communication
• Verbal communication
• External outreach
• Internal communications
• Event management
• Budget management
• Networking
• Hubspot
• Google Suite
• Adobe
• Project management software (e.g., monday.com)

Location

• Hybrid
• Remote
• London (E2)

Work Type

• Full-time
• Permanent
• Hybrid working
• Flexible working arrangements

Experience Level

• Depending on experience

Salary/Compensations

• £28,000-36,000 per annum

Benefits

• Plus benefits

About the Company

• D&AD is committed to diversity, equality, equity, inclusion and respect for all.
• Providing a work environment in which all employees are treated with fairness, respect and dignity and which is free of discrimination, victimisation, bullying and harassment.
• At D&AD we are interested in every individual bringing their ‘Whole Self’ to work and this includes you!

Equal Opportunity

• D&AD is committed to diversity, equality, equity, inclusion and respect for all.
• Providing a work environment in which all employees are treated with fairness, respect and dignity and which is free of discrimination, victimisation, bullying and harassment.
• At D&AD we are interested in every individual bringing their ‘Whole Self’ to work and this includes you!
• Please email vanessa.knight@btinternet.com to let us know if you need any reasonable adjustments to be made for any part of the recruitment process.
• In order to comply with the Prevention of Illegal Working, Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act, you will need to provide appropriate documentation that proves that you are eligible to work in the UK.
• Due to the number of applications we receive, we regret that you will not be contacted unless you are shortlisted for an interview.
• If you have not heard from us within three weeks of the closing date of your application you should assume that you have not been successful on this occasion.
• Our privacy statement can be viewed on the D&AD careers page.