Awards Liaison
Job Description
Job Title: Awards Liaison (D&AD Awards)
Reports to: Operations Manager
Role: Full time, Fixed-term contract: February-May 2023 (14 ½ Weeks Contract)
Interviews: December 2022 - January 2023
Location: London E2 Office working
Salary: £24,000 per annum
Hours: Monday - Friday (9:00am-5:00pm)
Flexibility will be required when working to deadlines and Judging period 6th - 10th May 2023 on-site at The Old Truman Brewery for D&AD Awards Judging.
About D&AD
Founded in 1962, D&AD is an organisation that is all about the pursuit of creative excellence within advertising and design - inspiring it, celebrating it and enabling it. A fundamental way of us achieving this is through our world class learning programmes which upskill the current and future workforce.
Whilst our remit focuses on the advertising and design industry there is a broader goal, to demonstrate the positive impact that creativity can have across education, the economy and within society.
Purpose of the Job
The D&AD Awards gather the world's best creative work from across the commercial design, advertising, production and craft disciplines to be judged on more than 260 global creative leaders, practitioners and innovators.
We’re looking for an ambitious Awards Liaison to join our Awards team, it’ll be your job to help support the preparation and delivery of the D&AD Awards and make sure each piece of work submitted by our entrants is of the right standard and requirements to be judged.
Key Responsibilities
General
Keeping the work environment clean and tidy in collaboration with the Officer Manager
Responsible for checking and processing packages arriving to the office
Be a point of support for the operations manager, supervising and supporting the office-based team when necessary.
Ensure filing systems are maintained and tidy
Oversee the chasing of entrant packages to arrive at D&AD offices.
Ensure that accurate cataloguing, storage, processing and warehousing of all award entries
Provide a high level of customer service to entrants
Use the D&AD query database to log and resolve all queries
Cataloguing
Use the D&AD logging system to record and check entry data
Process and file physical/digital entries
Sort and open packages
Quality check moving image, stills and web/app entries
Edit awards entry media where necessary
Identify and resolve problems with entries, contacting the entrant where necessary
Liaise with operations team and management to resolve complex problem
Online Judging
Ensure all the entries are processed to the right standard in time for online judging
Liasing with the judges to ensure they understand and complete the online judging process on time
Resolve any issue that may be raised by the judges during the judging process
Keeping management informed of any problems that may arise
Ensure all communication with the judges is consistent and in line with D&AD’s tone of voice
Judging
Quality control; ensure work is accurately prepared and displayed for judging
Assist with the transportation to and set up of work at judging
Support change over of jury sessions and judging rounds
Help resolve any problems and queries
Checking credits (Individual and company names) are accurate and free of errors
Use the D&AD database to check and correct credits and images
Proofread written information if necessary
Personal Qualities
Comfortable working in a large team
You love to learn and are excited by the prospect of a diverse workload
Strong communication skills
Keen interest in design and advertising
Trustworthy and Reliable
Sense of humour
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