Position: Communications Intern
Department: Member Relations
Service / Unit: Communications
Who are we?
The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) is the world’s leading alliance of public service media, with 112 member organizations in 56 countries. It is headquartered in Geneva. The EBU Brussels office represents the interests and promotes the role of public service media with European policy makers. The Brussels office is part of the EBU Legal & Policy Department. We work closely with EBU Member representatives to develop common views and strategies to address upcoming EU policy developments.
The EBU Communications Team is a busy multi-skilled department that delivers corporate communications, media relations, direct marketing, digital communications including the EBU website, social media and much, much more. We serve the whole of the EBU with first-class communications content, working with a range of departments and units including News, Sport, Music, Radio, TV, Digital, and Young Audiences.
Your main tasks
The Communications Intern will provide support for a wide range of communications tasks, working under the direction of the Senior Communications Officer for EBU Media. These will include:
- Maintaining and updating media lists; distribution of press releases
- Uploading of articles to ebu.ch; researching photographs
- Liaising with the press cuttings service
- Drafting posts for social media
- Researching social media handles
- Creating impactful analytics to demonstrate the work of the team/EBU
This role is varied. As an example, in a single day the incumbent might be researching media contacts for a particular story, finding facts to include in an article, making some simple infographics, uploading videos to YouTube or looking at TikTok to get some promotional ideas.
Requirements
- University degree
- Excellent communications skills in English. Knowledge of other EU languages is welcome
- Good social and organizational skills
We offer
- A paid contract (1200 EUR per month) as a trainee under Belgian law (“convention d’immersion professionnelle”) for a duration of 6 months, starting on 18 September 2023
- Great opportunity to gain work experience in a large European association
Please send your CV and cover letter to Brussels@ebu.ch by Wednesday 31 May 2023 EOB.
Only short-listed candidates will be invited for interviews.
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