Newton Media Group

B2B Events Coordinator

Newton Media Group

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Remote • 🇿🇦 South Africa

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Salary

💰 ZAR 18,000 per month

Job Level

JuniorMid-Level

About the role

  • Drive award nominations by contacting warm leads and past participants (20–40 calls per week) to:
  • - Confirm receipt of award information
  • - Encourage entries
  • - Remind stakeholders of deadlines
  • - Provide additional information where required
  • Track and report on award progress, including:
  • - Number of nominations per category
  • - Judge confirmations and availability
  • - Flagging categories requiring additional nominations or judges
  • Manage nominations and judging progress using our awards platform (Evessio – training provided)
  • Liaise with judges and speakers (approx. 20 judges per project), including:
  • - Collecting bios and headshots
  • - Managing availability
  • - Maintaining regular professional communication
  • Arrange and manage judges’ meetings:
  • - Diary management
  • - Sending meeting invites and documentation
  • - Occasionally hosting virtual meetings and taking notes
  • Update awards websites with bios, logos and relevant content
  • Ensure nominations are complete and accurate, chasing missing information where needed
  • Support the wider awards/events team with general administrative tasks

Requirements

  • Minimum 2 years’ experience in a role requiring strong organisation, administration and stakeholder communication
  • Confident and professional telephone manner — comfortable making warm outbound calls
  • Excellent organisational and project management skills
  • Strong attention to detail and ability to manage multiple deadlines
  • Confident using Excel / Google Sheets to manage large datasets (300+ lines)
  • Comfortable using LinkedIn to cross-reference and verify information
  • Professional written and verbal communication skills — experience dealing with senior executives
  • Ability to learn and work confidently with technical systems (training provided)
  • **Desirable (but not essential)**
  • B2B events or awards experience
  • Experience in conference production, marketing, sales support or pre-sales
  • Diary management experience (especially with senior stakeholders)
  • Familiarity with Evessio or similar event/awards platforms
  • Basic HTML or website content updating experience
Benefits
  • 100% remote working from South Africa
  • Flexible working hours to support international projects
  • Exposure to high-profile UK and international B2B awards
  • A supportive, collaborative team in a growing business
  • All business calling costs covered by Newton Media
  • Long-term, contract role with development opportunities

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
ExcelGoogle SheetsHTMLdata managementproject managementstakeholder communicationdiary managementevent managementcontent updatingawards management
Soft skills
organisationattention to detailprofessional communicationtelephone mannermulti-taskingteam supportleadershipinterpersonal skillstime managementadaptability