Awards & Competitions Project Manager

We are looking for a Project Manager – Awards & Competitions to join our team and lead the planning, development, and delivery of awards, competitions, and recognition programs from concept to execution.The ideal candidate will be highly organized, detail-oriented, and experienced in managing multi-stakeholder projects, coordinating evaluation and judging processes, and delivering high-quality programs within defined timelines.Key Responsibilities:• Lead the end-to-end planning and execution of awards and competition programs.• Develop project plans, timelines, milestones, and implementation frameworks.• Coordinate with internal teams, partners, participants, judges, and external stakeholders.• Manage nomination, application, screening, evaluation, and judging processes.• Develop and monitor eligibility criteria, evaluation frameworks, scoring methodologies, and competition guidelines.• Ensure transparency, consistency, and quality throughout the evaluation and selection process.• Manage communication with applicants, nominees, finalists, judges, and partners.• Coordinate workshops, judging sessions, pitch events, ceremonies, and related activities.• Track project KPIs, risks, budgets, deliverables, and overall progress.• Prepare management reports, presentations, dashboards, and post-program reports.• Document lessons learned and identify opportunities to improve future editions.Required Qualifications & Skills:• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Project Management, Marketing, Events Management, or a related field.• Proven experience in project or program management.• Previous experience managing awards, competitions, accelerators, challenges, events, or similar programs is highly preferred.• Strong stakeholder and vendor management skills.• Excellent planning, coordination, communication, and problem-solving capabilities.• Ability to manage multiple workstreams and tight deadlines simultaneously.• Strong Arabic and English communication skills.• Proficiency in Microsoft Office and project management/reporting tools.