Are you our new communication officer?

From July-August 2022, Salome will hand over her position as Communication Officer of our Section to someone new.

We encourage early career scholars to consider applying for this vacant position and see this as an opportunity to train communication skills, develop your organizational skills and significantly expand your network.

If you are a senior researcher, be sure to forward this vacancy to promising new talent!

You can apply until 10 June. Below you find more information about the job description. Of course, you can always contact us with your questions.

Academia always has something to say to the broader audience, but, unfortunately, the core messages are often not inefficiently conveyed to the target groups. Therefore, our ECREA Children, Youth, and Media Section is dedicated to sending messages that engage and inform young scholars, academics, and also other stakeholders to increase their impact in Children, Youth, and Media research and practice. We consider our communication strategy as a way to achieve that goal. Having that in mind, we count on our new Communications Officer, who will join our diverse team working from all parts of Europe. We expect someone to have a thorough knowledge and experience of communications tools, enthusiasm and discipline to fulfill the communication needs of our section. Please, read the description of expectations below and join us, if you are interested:

If you join our team, you will be leading the following activities:

• Attend the management meeting (about 8 times a year)
• Managing the section’s social media channels (Twitter/Facebook internal group)
• Preparing the newsletter depending on the updates from the section (about 5 times a year): brainstorming topics, writing the draft of the newsletter, putting it in a template, and distributing through the section's listserv, and social media)
• Planning and facilitating the informal online meetings (about 4 times a year)

Please note, that this is a volunteer and remote position. Depending on your talents and your own ideas and availability, together we will look for a feasible way to implement our section’s communication strategy. There is certainly room to come up with your own ideas and make your own mark.

If you are interested, please send your CV and a motivation letter (no more than 500 words) explaining why you are applying for the position and what you would like to contribute to the section. Send your application to ecreacymcom@gmail.com until June 10th, 6 pm CET.

We are looking forward to receiving your application.

Should you have any questions, please email us at ecreacymcom@gmail.com