Manager Governance

Team:
Competitive Governance

Activity:
Full-time

Role grade:
Manager (6)

Direct reports: 0

Indirect reports: 0

Reporting to:
Director Competitive Governance

Role location:
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

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. You will help translate ideas, discussions, and strategic direction into clear deliverables, including governance models, project plans, presentations, tracking tools, briefing materials, process documents, and stakeholder updates.

The role will act as a key execution partner and sounding board to the Director Competitive Governance. You will be expected to manage work streams, structure ambiguous problems, prepare high-quality materials, track progress, coordinate stakeholders, and help move governance initiatives from concept to implementation.

• Support the delivery of key competitive governance work streams 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.
• Ensure governance work streams are well‑organised, documented, and progressing against agreed milestones.
• Support the Director Competitive Governance with day‑to‑day execution, prioritisation, problem‑solving, and follow‑through.

• 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.
• Contribute to brainstorming and shaping governance frameworks for competitions involving clubs, national teams, players, publishers, and external partners.
• Translate governance concepts into practical operating models, rules, policies, process maps, procedures, and implementation materials.
• Benchmark governance models from sports organizations, federations, member associations, consulting projects, and major competition organisers to identify relevant best practices.
• Help assess options, structure recommendations, and prepare a clear rationale for governance decisions.
• Support continuous improvement of governance frameworks based on lessons learned, stakeholder feedback, event outcomes, and evolving business needs.

• Prepare high‑quality presentations, briefing documents, and leadership updates that communicate complex governance topics clearly and visually.
• Structure narratives, recommendations, and decision papers for senior stakeholders.
• Turn complex information into clear, concise, and well‑organised materials for internal and external audiences.
• Build materials for workshops, governance discussions, stakeholder alignment sessions, and executive reviews.
• Support the creation of templates, dashboards, reporting formats, and communication materials to improve consistency and clarity across the function.

• Support the implementation of competitive governance and integrity policies covering fair play, anti‑cheating, match‑fixing, doping, code of conduct, eligibility, and disciplinary matters.
• Assist with documentation, process design, stakeholder coordination, and follow‑up related to incident handling, escalation, and governance decisions.
• Help ensure governance and integrity requirements are embedded into…