(Senior) Project Manager Events (m/f/d)

About JUNI

JUNI is building the leading startup ecosystem for science-based spin-offs in Berlin and Brandenburg. We connect universities, startups, corporates, investors and policymakers - and create the spaces, programmes and partnerships that translate research into successful companies.

Our events are where that ecosystem becomes tangible: our formats bring founders, researchers, partners and decision-makers into the same room. We are looking for a (Senior) Project Manager Events who shapes what these formats achieve - and who holds together everyone working on them, across our Business, Science and Ecosystem Partners and across every team inside JUNI. Your first major project: the next JUNI Future Week in 2027, our flagship format.

You work closely with our Event Manager, who runs operational delivery and on-site execution. You own the concept, the stakeholders and the budget, and report directly to our Head of Communications.

Your mission

Concept and event strategy

• Ownership of the concept for our flagship events - JUNI Future Week and Science Day: what each format is for, whom it is for, and what it should achieve
• Developing programme and dramaturgy: themes, formats, speakers, the arc of the day and the moments that make people want to come back
• Owning audience development and registrations together with your Comms colleagues. Together you decide: who needs to be in the room, and how we get them there
• Defining what success looks like per event and evaluating against it, so each edition builds on the last rather than repeating it
• Developing our event portfolio: which formats we keep, which we drop, and where a new one is worth building
• Ad-hoc support for partner events that need project planning and management expertise - you bring structure where our partners need it

Coordination across stakeholders and departments

• The central point of contact for all parties involved in an event - Business Partners, Science Partners and Ecosystem Partners
• Translating partner interests into formats that work for our audiences
• Coordinating across JUNI: partnerships, communications, programme and leadership - you bring the right people in at the right time and keep everyone working from one plan
• Speaker and guest management: identifying and approaching speakers, moderators and high-profile guests

Planning and budget

• Owning the project plan across the event cycle: milestones, responsibilities, timelines and dependencies
• Managing the event budget: planning spend, tracking it and reporting reliably against the frame set with leadership
• Selecting and briefing agencies, venues and production partners, and assuring quality throughout
• Building the standards and templates that make each next event faster and better than the one before

Your profile

• 5+ years of experience conceiving and delivering events - ideally formats with several hundred participants, a stage programme and substantial partner involvement
• Demonstrable strength in concept work: you have built event formats, not only run them
• Excellent stakeholder management: you are comfortable with partners, senior decision-makers and colleagues alike, and you bring divergent interests to a decision
• Strong project management skills: you plan structurally, keep track of many moving parts and see problems before they become urgent
• You turn a continuous stream of ideas into disciplined plans - prioritising what will have impact and setting aside what won't
• You flag problems early and directly instead of working around them, and you find a new route fast when the first one closes
• Experience managing event budgets and steering external agencies and service providers
• Interest in innovation, startups and the science environment
• Fluent German and English
• Experience with associations, public institutions or political stakeholders is a plus

We offer

• A role with real ownership - our flagship formats are yours to shape, from the underlying idea to the final evaluation
• Direct contact with founders, researchers, leading companies and decision-makers
• A motivated team with a hands-on spirit and flat hierarchies
• Flexible working hours and hybrid working
• A modern working environment across several locations in Berlin
• Compensation that reflects experience and responsibility, complemented by a performance-based component