Manager Competitive Governance
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About the Role
Esports Foundation seeks a Manager Competitive Governance to support the development and implementation of governance structures for the Esports World Cup and related competitions.
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Responsibilities
- Support the delivery of key competitive governance workstreams across EF competitions, ensuring tasks are clearly structured, tracked, and completed on time
- Translate strategic priorities, leadership discussions, and brainstorming sessions into clear action plans, deliverables, timelines, and follow ups
- Create and maintain project plans, governance trackers, decision logs, issue logs, risk registers, stakeholder maps, and implementation roadmaps
- Drive the preparation of materials required for internal meetings, workshops, leadership updates, and stakeholder discussions
- Support the design and refinement of competitive governance structures across EF competitions
- Prepare high quality presentations, briefing documents, and leadership updates that communicate complex governance topics clearly and visually
- Support the implementation of competitive governance and integrity policies covering fair play, anti cheating, match fixing, doping, code of conduct, eligibility, and disciplinary matters
- Act as a day to day coordination point for internal and external stakeholders on competitive governance matters
- Maintain governance documentation, workstream trackers, issue logs, compliance trackers, incident records, dashboards, and reporting tools
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Law, Business, International Relations, Sports Law, Governance, Compliance, Political Science, Public Policy, or a related field
- 6+ years of relevant experience in consulting, governance, sports business, regulatory environments, or a related field
- Strong project execution skills with the ability to drive workstreams, track actions, and deliver high quality outputs
- Strong consulting style problem solving skills, including the ability to structure ambiguous topics and turn them into clear work plans
- Excellent deck building and storytelling skills, with the ability to prepare clear, polished, senior level presentations
- Strong written communication skills, including the ability to create briefing notes, reports, decision papers, process documents, and stakeholder updates
- Excellent written and spoken English
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Job Purpose
- As Manager Competitive Governance, you will support the development, implementation, and continuous improvement of Esports Foundation’s competitive governance structures across the Esports World Cup, Esports Nations Cup, and related competitions.
- This role is suited for someone who combines strong project execution with structured thinking, stakeholder management, and the ability to support complex governance work in a fast moving environment.
Duties And Responsibilities
- Support the delivery of key competitive governance workstreams across EF competitions, ensuring tasks are clearly structured, tracked, and completed on time.
- Translate strategic priorities, leadership discussions, and brainstorming sessions into clear action plans, deliverables, timelines, and follow ups.
- Create and maintain project plans, governance trackers, decision logs, issue logs, risk registers, stakeholder maps, and implementation roadmaps.
- Drive the preparation of materials required for internal meetings, workshops, leadership updates, and stakeholder discussions.
- Support the design and refinement of competitive governance structures across EF competitions, including decision making processes, roles and responsibilities, escalation routes, stakeholder engagement models, and operating rhythms.
- Prepare high quality presentations, briefing documents, and leadership updates that communicate complex governance topics clearly and visually.
- Support the implementation of competitive governance and integrity policies covering fair play, anti cheating, match fixing, doping, code of conduct, eligibility, and disciplinary matters.
- Act as a day to day coordination point for internal and external stakeholders on competitive governance matters.
- Maintain governance documentation, workstream trackers, issue logs, compliance trackers, incident records, dashboards, and reporting tools.
Education And Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Law, Business, International Relations, Sports Law, Governance, Compliance, Political Science, Public Policy, or a related field. A master’s degree is preferred.
- 6+ years of relevant experience in consulting, governance, sports business, regulatory environments, or a related field.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Background in consulting firms, especially with exposure to sports or governance, is highly preferred.
- Strong project execution skills with the ability to drive workstreams, track actions, and deliver high quality outputs.
- Strong consulting style problem solving skills, including the ability to structure ambiguous topics and turn them into clear work plans.
- Excellent deck building and storytelling skills, with the ability to prepare clear, polished, senior level presentations.
- Strong written communication skills, including the ability to create briefing notes, reports, decision papers, process documents, and stakeholder updates.
- Strong analytical skills and comfort working with frameworks, trackers, dashboards, and structured reporting tools.
- Ability to act as a sounding board, challenge ideas constructively, and help shape practical recommendations.
- Good understanding of sport, sports business, major sports events, governance, federations, or competition environments.
- Ability to work with legal, operational, commercial, and external stakeholders.
- Strong attention to detail and ability to manage multiple workstreams in parallel.
- Comfortable operating in a fast moving, international, and event driven environment.
- Excellent written and spoken English.
Benefits
- Relocation support
- Transportation allowance
- Competitive compensation
- Housing allowance
- VIP medical insurance
- Opportunity to work on a new exciting project with a group of passionate professionals. You will get the freedom to excel and make a real impact
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