RT-C/D/SCI/00155 Communication Officer

Job Introduction

Serco is a specialist at delivering vital services on behalf of European, National and Local Governments.

Serco Europe employ’s a large workforce in Belgium, Luxembourg, France, Switzerland, Germany, Holland, Spain, Italy and the UK.

Our European operations have ca. 2,000 employees delivering critical services to public institutions throughout Europe. 

For our activities in ESTEC, we are currently looking for a Communication Officer.

Role Responsibility

The work covers the following areas:

• Support of the communication activities and special events (press conferences, launches etc.).

• Support to the Communication Office for internal and external communication tasks.

• Media relations.

• Country Desk national web pages content.

• Co-operations and partnerships.

• Visitor Services at the Erasmus Centre.

• Multimedia Productions

• Internal Communication tasks.

• Support to Corporate Communication Tasks.

• Support to Astronaut Mission Coordination.

• Support to Exploration Working Groups.

• On-Site Editorial & writing Support.

The area of responsibility of the Communication Officer entails duties such as, but not limited to the following:

• Act as Senior Editor for the Science and Technology pages of the Science directorate, including the commissioning, editing and writing of articles and updates.
• Act as administrator of the Science Editorial Board to review news requests and coordinate the publication agenda.
• Act as “Point of Contact” for science missions internally (ESA project scientist and managers) and externally (Mission Science teams and communication partners).
• Under the responsibility of the Science Programme Communication Officer support the drafting and implementation of annual and mission communication plans.
• Organisation of media events, including briefing of speakers and follow-up of requests from media.
• Set-up of outreach events agreed in the Science and Exploration Domain communication plan.
• Support to launch and mission events and tasks and events defined in partnership and cooperation agreements.
• Conception and conduct of social media campaigns, including the management of Science related social media accounts.
• Conception, editing and writing of stories for ESA science portal and SciTech pages in English.
• Obtain the necessary internal approval for publication.
• Conception of storyboards for videos, animations and social media assets.
• Represent ESA at science/outreach/communication conferences by giving presentations and to maintain and develop relationships with other science communicators and update own knowledge

Successful Candidate

The successful candidate shall have a university degree (at least master) in Astronomy, Planetary Science, or Astrophysics, and minimum good knowledge and at least 8 years’ experience in the following areas:

• Science, engineering or technological communication. A good synthesis ability and a thorough understanding and interest for science is needed.
• Fluent spoken and written English.
• In-depth knowledge of the missions and topics of ESA’s Science Programme.
• International Media and Social media.
• Good interaction skills and capacity to work under stressful situations.

A fair knowledge in the following areas will be considered an additional advantage:

• Science communications.
• Audio-visual requirements.
• Graphic design and layout.
• Social media.

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Important

Any offer of employment is contingent upon you providing documents to verify your identity and employment eligibility, as required by law.

Applicants are reminded that they will be requested to produce such documentation during the recruitment process.

Please contact a member of the recruitment team if you require further details of acceptable types of documentation required for verification of identity and work authorization. 

For positions located within the Darmstadt Support Office please note that only applicants with no family affiliation within the Company will be considered.

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Package Description

Full details on application.

Relocation assistance provided (if applicable).

About the Company

Serco’s space heritage over the last 40 years has placed us in the Space News Top 50 Space Industry Manufacturing and Services Companies - We work alongside EUMETSAT and the European Space Agency, where we are the largest on-site service provider with ca. 300 staff.

What connects the ever growing Serco workforce is a passion for delivering great service – To keep ahead we have to constantly evolve and enhance the way we deliver our services and everyone in Serco has a role to play here.

Serco provide the right environment to encourage ideas and a comprehensive Best Practice support network that enables them to put their ideas into action.

If you share our values then join with over 50,000 colleagues globally who are equally as passionate about delivering great service as you.

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