Job Offer

European Choral Association – Europa Cantat is looking for a Communication and Marketing Manager for their office in Bonn, Germany, starting September 1st 2019

Who are they?

The European Choral Association – Europa Cantat is a network of organisations, choirs and individuals in the field of collective singing in Europe. Through their membership, they directly represent more than 2,5 million singers, conductors, composers and managers in over 40 European countries, and reach out to more than 37 million people in continental Europe active in the field of collective singing. More on www.EuropeanChoralAssociation.org

Why are they recruiting?

They are currently funded through membership fees, some income from their activities, as well as public funding from Germany and from the European Union, as one of the networks funded by the Creative Europe programme of the EU and through project funding. They are currently receiving the funding for the 4-year project “Upgrade – Connect – Reach Out: Raising Awareness for Collective Singing in Europe” running until August 2021.

One of the aims of this project is to strengthen the network and reach out more to people who are not part of the European Choral Association – Europa Cantat or not singing, yet. To reach this aim they have been developing a new website and other new communication tools and have intensified the Social Media activities. One of the next steps will be to work out, in cooperation with the Board members, a communication strategy that is in line with the strategic aims of the association for the coming years.

At the end of their network funding project they are aiming to run a campaign on the benefits of collective singing on the individual and society. This campaign should help to reach out to the media as well as to organisations and people not connected to the association, yet, and to offer advocacy tools to all those who want to promote collective singing activities and projects.

The Communication and Marketing Manager will have the following tasks

– Taking care of the digital communication of the association:
– Maintaining and developing further the website
– Designing a Social Media strategy for Facebook and other Social Media
– Advertising for activities of ECA-EC including Facebook adverts
– Preparing the monthly newsletters
– Maintaining the mailing lists
– Taking care of the audio-visual communication material – YouTube channel of ECA-EC
– Web-streaming and video documentation
– Support to the Youth Committee for the European Choir Video Award
– Coordinating the preparation, production and dissemination of the printed communication of the association
– Cooperating with the professional lay-outer, collecting texts, statistics and graphic material, making proposals for the contents, communicating with others who have to submit information, etc.

Skills required

• University degree (ideally in communication)
• Language skills: Excellent level of English is mandatory since most of the communication is done in English, good level of German and/or French is an asset. Experience in communication and/or marketing work
• Communication skills: Ability to talk to people live and on the phone in different languages and to talk in front of bigger audiences (at least in English)
• Intercultural skills: Preferably at least 6 months or 1 year spent abroad, openness to different cultures and working methods
• Team skills: Ability to work in a small and close team, and in small premises
• Computer skills: Very good computer skills, good proficiency with MS Office software, knowledge of different software used in communication (photo editing, video editing, lay-outing with Adobe Suite, website design with WordPress), willingness to learn to work with new programmes, further technical skills an asset
• Cultural background: Interest in culture and/or education, experience in the field of collective singing/ choral music is an asset

Conditions

• 100% position, 39 hours/week, contract according to the German TVÖD system at TVÖD9a, level 1 (represents a brut salary of around 2.952,16 €)
• EU citizenship or work permit in Germany required
• Location: in the city of Bonn, Germany, central location, parking available
• Travel expenses to the job interview will not be reimbursed. Applications to be sent in English by 27/06/2019, by E-mail to info@EuropeanChoralAssociation.org sending a motivation letter, CV and attachments that may help assess the skills and experience of the candidate.

Job-Interviews 3-4/7/2019
Decision taken by 8/7/2019
Probation period: 3 months