Communications Assistant

**Job Purpose**:
The Communication Assistant at the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) plays a key role in driving the planning, execution, and evaluation of ECFR’s flagship campaigns. This role requires a strong sense of initiative and the ability to contribute across multiple areas, including media engagement, press office operations, social media strategy, content publishing, multimedia production, newsletter development, administrative coordination, and stakeholder database maintenance.

**Main Responsibilities**:

- Contribute to the strategic planning, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of ECFR’s high-impact campaigns and communication projects.
- Engage with team members to deliver robust and effective media communications and press outreach.
- Manage press office tasks, including handling interview requests, tracking media coverage, maintaining the press contact database, and preparing outreach and impact reports.
- Operate ECFR’s social media channels by promoting research, multimedia content, events, and job opportunities with a dynamic and analytical approach.
- Publish commentaries and research outputs on ECFR platforms, ensuring visual and editorial quality.
- Develop and distribute ECFR’s general newsletter, drafting compelling editorial content and coordinating with internal and external stakeholders.
- Collaborate on the production of multimedia materials, including podcasts and videos, liaising with internal experts and external contributors.
- Ensure ECFR’s media stakeholder database is accurate, well-maintained, and supports strategic outreach.
- Provide administrative coordination as required, including taking clear and action-oriented notes during meetings, overseeing expense tracking, streamlining internal communications, and improving access to core resources (i.e. Intranet).
- Additional responsibilities may be assigned as needed to support overall ECFR organizational priorities.

**Person Specification**:
**Education**
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in communications, media studies, international relations, or a related discipline.

**Experience**
- Demonstrated success in campaign planning, media engagement, and social media operations.
- Previous hands-on experience in communications, journalism, or public affairs is desirable.

**Skills and Abilities**:

- Excellent writing and editing skills, highly skilled in drafting press releases, media notes, editorial content and social media copy
- Proficiency in design software (e.g., Canva, Adobe InDesign, Photoshop) and experience with short-form video/audio editing is strongly preferred.
- Fluent English (with excellent editing and proofreading skills)
- Ability to work effectively under pressure and constructively in a team.
- Ability to work under pressure, manage multiple projects, and meet tight deadlines.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills, comfortable engaging with stakeholders, partners, and media.
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a multinational, cross-functional team.
- A strategic mindset with attention to detail and a proactive, solution-oriented approach.
- Flexibility and adaptability to evolving project needs and priorities.

**What we offer**:

- Full-time permanent contract with a salary package amounting to 36,000 EUR/year and 30 days of holiday/year.
- Convenience of an office location in the heart of Berlin.
- Stimulating work environment at an innovative, pan-European think tank with partly hybrid work opportunities that allow flexibility while maintaining productivity and collaboration.
- Opportunity to collaborate with highly motivated and committed colleagues from diverse backgrounds across Europe at an entity with a distinguished position and wide recognition within the think tank world.
- Open and appreciative work culture where employee achievements are valued and recognized.
- Exciting and fast-moving environment at an innovative and renowned pan-European think tank which is at the forefront of cutting-edge research and policy development, shaping the future of European foreign policy.

Closing Date: 25th May 2025

ECFR is an Equal Opportunity Employer and we do not discriminate against applicants due to race, ethnicity, gender, veteran status, or on the basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class.

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**About us**:
The European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) is an award-winning international think-tank that aims to conduct cutting-edge independent research on European foreign and security policy and to provide a safe meeting space for decision-makers, activists and influencers to share ideas. We build coalitions for change at the European level and promote informed debate about Europe’s role in the world.

In 2007, ECFR’s founders set about creating a pan-European institution that could combine establishment credibility with intellectual insurgency. Today, ECFR remains uniquely placed to continue