Apply for Traineeship in the Design team, Directorate General Communications, Frankfurt Job Vacancy | Position

General Information

Type of contract Traineeship

Who can apply? EU nationals eligible for our traineeship programme

Grant The trainee grant is €1,170 per 30 days plus an lodging allowance (see additional data part)

Working time Full time

Place of labor Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Closing date 09.01.2025

Your crew

You shall be part of the Design and Digital Division in the Directorate General Communications. Our Directorate General has round 250 workers accountable for participating with the public and media and informing them about the ECB’s duties and mission. We additionally assist members of the Executive Board in their communication actions.

In your position as a trainee, you can be part of a crew of 4 members of workers accountable for ECB visible communications merchandise involving images, videography, graphic design and branding. You will assist produce graphic design options for a big selection of communications merchandise (resembling static visuals, explainer movies and infographics) on a number of communications platforms (together with the ECB’s web sites and social media channels). You will even work carefully with stakeholders from different groups inside the Directorate General Communications and with exterior suppliers.

The ECB is an inclusive employer and we try to replicate the range of the inhabitants we serve. We encourage you to apply regardless of age, incapacity, ethnicity, gender, gender identification, race, non secular beliefs, sexual orientation or different traits.

Your position

As a trainee in the Design crew, you’ll:

• assist the crew in its every day duties by getting ready interesting visuals for all ECB social media channels and web sites;
• develop branding options for numerous ECB initiatives by exploring and implementing the newest developments in graphic and movement graphic design;
• present progressive and artistic proposals for enhancements in the ECB’s visible communications;
• assist to determine and keep the ECB’s visible identification throughout all communications merchandise;
• work carefully with others in our Directorate General as part of cross-divisional groups dealing with strategic communication initiatives or pressing duties, and contribute your inventive insights to initiatives that span the establishment’s numerous vary of actions.

The place provides you wonderful alternatives to work with consultants from throughout Europe and achieve expertise in a fast-paced atmosphere throughout a broad vary of communications matters. You shall be part of a multicultural crew that strives for steady innovation to make a optimistic influence on the lives of European residents.

Qualifications, expertise and abilities

Essential:

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• a bachelor’s diploma or larger in graphic design, visible communication or a associated discipline (different fields will even be thought-about if mixed with sturdy related {qualifications});
• proficiency in graphic design software program, together with, however not restricted to, Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects);
• a sound understanding of design ideas, format, color concept, typography and the fundamentals of movement graphics, demonstrated by a robust portfolio showcasing related design initiatives;
• the capacity to conceptualise and execute inventive concepts successfully, translating complicated data into clear and intuitive visuals, and a eager eye for aesthetics and consistency;
• familiarity with the design course of, from idea to ultimate supply;
• a superb information of the MS Office package deal;
• a complicated (C1) command of English and an intermediate (B1) command of not less than one different official language of the EU, in accordance with the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.

Desired:

• familiarity with person interface and person expertise design ideas.

You are curious and desperate to study, and wish to additional develop your capacity to analyse complicated data. You are eager to collaborate with others, pursue crew objectives and study from different individuals’s numerous views. You attempt to know and anticipate stakeholder wants, and can sign any want for change and suggest different options.

You are motivated to contribute to the ECB’s mission, to serve the residents of the EU as a member of a public establishment and to work with colleagues from throughout Europe. You are eager to be part of our crew and to make use of your abilities and competencies to attain the goals of this place.

Further data

Initial traineeship of six months, with a doable extension to as much as 12 months in complete.

Other particulars on the situations relevant to traineeships at the ECB may be discovered on our web site.

Application and choice course of

The recruitment course of for this place will embrace an internet interview.

Further data on how one can apply is offered on our web site.

If you aren’t chosen for this place however are nonetheless thought-about appropriate, you can be positioned on a reserve record for 12 months from the time limit for functions, from which you is perhaps thought-about for different traineeship positions inside the ECB.