Audiovisual Unit - Post C: Audiovisual archivist

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 sessions 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 Media Library archives and stores audiovisual content produced in the European Parliament. We provide access to broadcast-quality video footage of a wide range of EP activities to journalists, citizens, non-governmental organisations, as well as internal services. We offer thousands of hours’ worth of video footage, audio recordings, documenting the history of Europe from the first steps of the Common Market to the present day. 

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 from the EP committees through to the plenary sessions and other special events that take place on Parliament premises. 

At the Media Library, you will be involved in the workflow of the archiving of the daily work of the audiovisual unit (news, infoclips, plenary sessions). Our work involves the use of various IT tools and training is provided on a daily basis in the unit.

• Your typical work activities include organising, managing and using the footage produced by our unit;
• You will also be involved in using specific documentary databases to index and describe new sequences for inclusion in the archives database and publication on the Internet;
• You will have the opportunity to be in contact with television, multimedia and radio professionals (producers, journalists, documentalists, etc.) to provide the images best suited to their needs and providing production teams with archive images;
• Your tasks include the publication of content on the Multimedia Centre of the European Parliament;
• Your work with us will also include challenging interpersonal contacts with official representatives, EP Members and their assistants, businesspersons and other organisations alike.

• You have experience in audiovisual material archiving and an understanding of AV file formats and the ability to encode, export, transfer and store such files;
• You have practical knowledge of techniques for written and audiovisual documentation;
• You have a love for researching and finding solutions;
• You have a good knowledge of IT tools and are open to work in a modern technology environment, ready to deal with unexpected technical issues;
• You have a very good command of French and English;
• You are familiar with real-time TV analytics and TV-synced ads solution;
• You have a strong interest and understanding of European Union matters, policies, agenda and a knowledge on how the EU institutions work;
• You are a good team player with good time management skills and flexible with regard to working hours;
• You enjoy working in a versatile, multi-tasking environment.

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.