Audiovisual Unit - Post B: Audiovisual Journalist/Communication Specialist

The European Parliament stands for European democracy. We help connect it to people. 

This entails providing complete and impartial information to citizens and media about the European Parliament, and assisting Members in their communication activities. The Directorate-General for Communication (DG COMM) strives to reach and engage the right audience with the right message at the right time and in doing so, deliver world-class communication. We are committed communication professionals coming from various professional and academic backgrounds.

The European Parliament's Audiovisual Unit provides essential services to raise the awareness of the European Parliament and guarantee the transparency of its political activities. Audiovisual facilities such as TV studios, radio studios or camera crews are primarily made available to broadcast and webcast media undertakings and regular news coverage - video, audio and photo - are offered free of charge to the world's media.

Among many other activities, we broadcast the plenary session and make all the necessary video material available for journalists and producers. The Audiovisual Unit also provides video, audio and photo services to the Members of the European Parliament (MEPs).

The Audiovisual Newsroom covers by video the main activities of the European Parliament and the EP President. It regroups all video publication on Europe by Satellite, Multimedia centre of the European Parliament and on additional promotion channels.

As part of Parliament's commitment to honouring journalists who were killed during the exercise of their work, the Directorate for Media offers its Schuman traineeships in memory of Jan Kuciak, the Slovak investigative journalist who was murdered in February 2018.

As a trainee at the Audiovisual Unit you will have the opportunity to get a wider view of different activities in the Parliament, starting with the Plenary session through to the EP Committees' works and other special events which take place on Parliament premises.

• Your typical work activities include reading, researching and assessing ideas, following the daily news and debates;
• You will also be involved in the planning and organisation of filming schedules (e.g. for the infoclips) - depending on the type of product (news or stockshots) and availability of support staff;
• You will write shortlists and analyse the broadcast use of audiovisual material produced by the European Parliament;
• You will have the opportunity to develop ideas and concepts for the topics to be filmed and work as an assistant producer; while doing this, you will be consulting and assisting the producer in writing and finalising scripts;
• You may also have the role of producer under your supervisor;
• Part of your tasks will be the research for related projects, gathering and checking information from various sources. At the end of your research, you will summarise and represent the results in a reliable and accurate format;
• Your tasks also include the publication of content on the Multimedia Centre of the European Parliament and on the social media channels of the EP;
• Your work with us also includes challenging interpersonal contacts with official representatives, EP Members and their assistants, businesspersons and other organisations alike;
• Your knowledge and experience as a journalist will help you to operate a variety of equipment and to create scripts, graphics, choose music etc. required for the production.

• You are an audiovisual journalist or a communication specialist with at least a basic experience in audiovisual content production and the tools used in the profession and an excellent attention to detail and accuracy;
• You have a very good command of English and you are up-to-date on the latest audiovisual narrative techniques and technological trends in the art of multimedia (audiovisual editing skills and basic image manipulation skills);
• You have a strong interest and understanding of European Union matters, policies, agenda and a knowledge on how the EU institutions work;
• You feel at ease and confident when working in the heart of events such as EP Plenaries, press conferences, official visits and with interviewing Members of the European Parliament and other dignitaries;
• You are a good team player with good time management skills and flexible with regard to working hours;
• In addition, if you have some experience in audiovisual material archiving and an understanding of AV file formats and the ability to encode, export, transfer and store such files, we will be happy to consider you as journalist-producer and audiovisual archivist and integrate you into our Media Library team.

If you see yourself in the description above and you would like to join our team, you are one of the candidates we are looking for, so apply immediately.