European Parliament Liaison Office in the Netherlands - Post B: Press and social media

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.

Within the Directorate-General, the Liaison Office of the European Parliament in the Netherlands, based in The Hague, is responsible for representing the European Parliament in the Netherlands. Informing the public is our most important task. We put a face to the European Parliament and the Dutch Members in the Netherlands. We follow European political developments in the Netherlands and the way the media report on them. We are also very much involved in contacts with civil society and are very active on social media and the internet. We are a small, interdependent team. The main working language in our office is Dutch.

This post is for work in the field of press and social media.

• Writing press releases on the European Parliament's work;
• Inviting journalists to plenary sessions in Brussels and Strasbourg;
• Organisation of (press) events on European topics;
• Producing our office's daily digital newsletter;
• Answering to journalists' queries;
• Giving lectures on the European Parliament;
• Communicating on a daily basis with the public through our office's social media accounts;
• Maintaining contacts with institutional partners (European Commission, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, national parliament, etc.), journalists and stakeholders;
• Writing texts for our website, annual report, newsletter, etc.;
• Representing our office on one occasion in Strasbourg.

• (Recent) afgestudeerd;
• Communicatief en praktisch ingesteld, collegiaal, je vindt het leuk om in een team te werken en je weet van aanpakken;
• Iemand met enige relevante werkervaring (organiseren van evenementen, schrijven van analyses, persvoorlichting);
• Iemand met een warme belangstelling voor de Europese samenwerking;
• Iemand die de Nederlandse taal uitstekend beheerst in woord en geschrift;
• Iemand die over een goede talenkennis, met name Engels, beschikt. Beheersing van het Frans is een pré;
• Iemand die affiniteit en ervaring heeft met sociale media (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, etc.);
• Enthousiast om ons team in Den Haag te komen versterken.