Detail of the vacancy notice
- Directorate: Directorate for Communication
- Management: no
- Unit/Service: Unit D.1 - Press office, relations with media
- Grade: AD5-AD12
- Location: Brussels
- Deadline: 4 July 2025 at noon (Brussels time)
Your job and responsibilities
Are you an experienced communicator with an interest in television and radio? Are you interested in increasing the visibility and impact of the European Committee of the Regions (CoR) and its members?
Most Europeans still say they get their news about the European Union from television and radio. You will be working in a dynamic team of media professionals supporting CoR members – politicians from the most trusted level of EU democracy – to promote their work as the voice of the more than 1 million local and regional leaders. Their messages on cohesion, resilience and proximity range from supporting Ukraine's cities and regions to encouraging better gender balance in local politics. As an EU communicator, this is your chance to make a difference in the most important channels, with the most trusted messengers and the most inspiring messages. At the heart of the Unit, working within the press sector and in collaboration with the audiovisual team, your role would be to:
- Develop, manage and consolidate the press relations with audiovisual journalists in order to promote the CoR into TV and radio at EU, national and local level;
- Liaise with the accredited press corps in Brussels and EU member states, and pitch stories, ensuring that information is appropriately targeted on relevant media;
- Draft press releases, organise press briefings, interviews and TV/radio debates for the journalists;
- Identify, contact and invite audiovisual journalists for key CoR events;
- Liaise between the CoR services and external or internal service providers;
- Contribute to the regular maintenance and updating of the media database and distribution lists;
- Contribute to make media monitoring smarter and more insightful, with a particular focus on audiovisual media monitoring and analysis;
- Liaise with the audiovisual team in relation to use of TV crews and coverage facilities including the studios on premises;
- Act as business continuity backup for colleagues in the audiovisual team;
- Manage contracts, budgets and serve as operational initiating agent (OIA).
Are you the talent we are looking for?
General abilities and capacities required
- Think with a critical spirit, analyse and solve problems pragmatically.
- Assess critically credibility and reliability of sources, data and information and use relevant digital tools to carry out the duties.
- Organise own work, demonstrate responsibility, identify priorities, take appropriate decisions and deliver results.
- Adapt to an evolving working environment, demonstrate commitment and adopt constructive attitude at all times. Remain effective and flexible even during periods of heavy activity.
- Take initiative to achieve individual and shared objectives, demonstrate ownership and work autonomously.
- Learn and professionally develop to continuously enhance job performance and knowledge of the organisation and working environment.
- Work together with others in a constructive way by contributing to diverse and inclusive working environment. Demonstrate respect and courtesy at all times.
- Convey information and relevant opinions clearly and concisely both orally and in writing, facilitate interaction and engage effectively with others. Treat confidential or sensitive information accordingly.
Job-specific requirements
- You want to help promote the work of the more than one million local and regional politicians across the EU and of the Committee that represents them at the EU level.
- You are aware of the EU media agenda and of its diversified media landscape, and able to seek out opportunities for politicians in the media and able to prepare their performances for interviews and profiles, including in relation to messaging on key priorities.
- You have experience in working with the press and the audiovisual media (TV or radio) and you are familiar with the specific requirements of audiovisual media production, including social media.
- You have experience in coordinating and executing complicated tasks, including with internal and external contractors.
- You have experience working with budgets and contracts, and with external stakeholders and journalists.
- You have a thorough knowledge of one of the official languages of the European Union and a satisfactory knowledge of another of the EU official languages. For functional reasons, a high level of English is required and a good level of other EU languages is desirable.
- You have a good command of IT applications and tools, such as Outlook, Excel, Word and SharePoint, including AI tools in a secure environment.
Assets
- Knowledge of internal IT applications such as ABAC and/or Adonis is an advantage.