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Manager Communications & Community at the European Press Prize

Do you want to bring a fresh perspective into a small, driven team with lots of independence, creativity and a wonderful Community full of interesting journalists from all over Europe? 

Europe’s most significant journalism prize needs someone to boost its presence: we are looking for a Manager Communications & Community for 27-32 hours a week!

The European Press Prize

The mission of the European Press Prize is to celebrate and encourage European journalism of the highest quality — to help counter the effects of a transforming, pressured market and fragile press freedom and to stimulate journalists to keep contributing to the quality of European journalism. In little over ten years of existence we have gone beyond merely awarding: we provide a platform that validates and celebrates journalistic excellence. In addition to that, we have managed to foster a true sense of Community among our network of journalists, and facilitate spaces for them to gather on a peer-to-peer basis. 

…and we are looking for a Manager Communications & Community for 32 hours a week!

As our Manager Communications & Community, you’ll be focussing on:

• Strategy development: formulating, maintaining and executing an effective communications and PR strategy that contributes to the achievement of the European Press Prize’s organisational goals;
• Brand awareness: increasing our on- and offline visibility;
• Community building: strengthening the European Press Prize Community (Laureates, members of our judging bodies and other media professionals).

What we offer

– Varied job with a lot of responsibility and independence;
– Space for development and for taking your own initiative;
– A small, driven team in which you work intensively together and have a serious role;
– An informal working environment;
– Journalistic events in different parts of Europe;
– Hybrid working, flexibility. 

Tasks

– Translating the mission and organisational objectives of the European Press Prize into inspiring content and other types of communications;

– Drafting and implementing the communication policy, i.e. deploying tracking and evaluating on- and offline presence;

– Functioning as a sparring partner of our director, co-formulating the European Press Prize’s communications strategy, translating it into concrete actions and goals, and having final responsibility for its implementation;

– Building and maintaining a network within the European journalistic landscape, e.g. relevant press and media contacts;

– Creating a community policy and strategy for online and offline presence;

– Listening to, moderating and responding to the wishes and needs from the Community;

– Actively researching and engaging with industry developments, tracking engagement;

– Planning and coordinating, developing and editing different types of content for the European Press Prize’s online (social media) channels, keeping them always up-to-date and active;

– Producing and writing annual reports, website content, fact sheets, newsletters, press releases, etc.; 

– Supervising the production, editing and design of larger visual communications, such as aftermovies.

Desired skills

– Affinity with the European Press Prize’s mission, mission-driven;

– Excellent command of English, both verbally and in writing;

– Experience as a communications officer/manager in a mission-driven organisation;

– Experience in developing communication strategies, and creating content, e.g. social media posts, blogs, interviews, newsletters, graphics and videos;

– Creative mindset for problem-solving and thinking strategically;

– Resourceful, hands-on, accurate and decisive, resistant to open and flexible working environment;

– Great communication skills and able to play a connecting role;

– Sense of the right tone and awareness of potential risks;

– Ability to switch well and quickly between different tasks and set priorities;

– Experience with SEO copywriting, CMS (WordPress), Mailchimp, Google analytics, Canva and video editing tools.

Nice-to-haves 

– Experience in writing and storytelling; 

– Editorial and journalistic skills and public relations experience;

– Ability to create and implement Community-focused content strategies for social media and other platforms;

– Relevant network of press and media contacts.

Interested in this position? Please fill in the application form below.

We can’t wait to hear from you! Please note that we accept applications on a rolling basis.